Favourite Barney Video

One of the nicest things about being a SAHM is that I get to snuggle up with my toddler and watch Barney.

She has just started warming up to Barney and now shouts "Bay-Yee!" with joy when I take a Barney video off the CD rack.

I love the positive values taught.

Helpfulness. Sharing. Caring. Being thoughtful.

And those kids in the videos...I wonder where they are now and what they're doing? I hope all that early contact with good teaching has rubbed off in their personal lives and that they're continuing to live lives of positive contribution.

Barney's Musical Castle Live! must be my all-time favourite.

It's got all our favourite songs: Hey Mr Knickerbocker, If All The Raindrops Were Lemondrops and Gumdrops, You Are Special.

I scrutinized the faces of the young audience in the video and they were just rapt.

When Barney sang You are special, special/Everybody's special/Everyone in his or her own way, the cameras zoomed in on this one little boy who obviously had some sort of brain injury. He was sitting on his mum's lap and she was smiling into his face and singing to him.

It was just beautiful.

And nothing beats that closing I Love You song.

It does wonders for my mood, making me feel all fuzzy and childlike and vulnerable.

And it's got the same effect on J as it did Beth, prompting her to snuggle up and give Mummy a kiss.

Thanks makers-of-Barney! Please keep up the magic!