If you didn't understand the reference to Charlie and Lola in the title, then you haven't got any children - certainly not any the age of mine...
Charlie and Lola are some of the more tolerable characters on CBeebies. Actually, I quite enjoyed watching Charlie and Lola with Joel before he was even old enough to properly understand it. (I know, sad isn't it...) Charlie and Lola are brother and sister (or 'sisiter' as Nathan would say), and the programmes basically focus on things that happen to or affect them. Everything from trips to the hairdresser / dentist / beach on to being poorly / breaking a limb / having a picnic / learning to share... They've covered it all. Charlie is a very long suffering big brother, and even ends up helping to get Lola ready for bed at one point, which I would have thought was above and beyond the call of duty, but there we are.
My boys are really loving watching this at the moment. However, it's not just on TV. They play games on the CBeebies website, listen to audio books in the car and even read actual (made with real paper and everything!) books too.
You know something like this has really entered your family culture when you start quoting it in a spontaneous manner round the dinner table...
This week when Joel's wobbly tooth fell out, he shouted:
"It's out, it's out - my wobbly tooth is completely out!"
A direct quote from the episode where Lola loses her first wobbly tooth, which I thought was pretty impressive - given that Joel was looking at the tooth and blood in his hand with an alarmed look on his face...
Charlie and Lola's greatest achievement though must be having made milk (specifically pink milk, although I think all milk to a certain point) cool again. The phase in life when a lot of children reject milk can now be tackled with a 'well Lola loves milk - so it must be good'... Well done Charlie and Lola, and well done creator Lauren Child.
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