A Common Cure for Television

I'm one of the last hold-outs to not show television to my toddler. TV just hasn't become a part of my two-and-a-half-year-old's life, and I'm happy to keep it that way for as long as I can. Recently it dawned on me that stickers can help. Completely out of my previous adoration of all things tiny and sticky, I have been buying my daughter stickers since before she could sit up, much less peel them off their backing. Only recently has she really gotten interested in them...she'll sit there peeling and pasting those suckers for close to half-hour at a time, which is just about same length of time as an episode of The Backyardigans.
A few weeks ago, as I was scraping an old halloween googly-eyed sticker off my coffee table, it occurred to me that my girl needs a sticker album. And so my quest for a sticker album began. I was shocked and confused when more than one salesperson in Micheal's craft store asked what a sticker album was. "Only the best invention on the planet," I answered in my head.
Amazon.com, once again, came through. There I found The Original Sticker Book by Sticker Farm. It is so great, (almost as great as my Mrs. Grossman's book, still in my childhood closet, full of all my most prized stickers) with fun pages full of animals, fairies, and scenery just asking to be stuck all over. My daughter has practically filled hers already, but luckily they're coming out with a second edition called My Happy Day, soon. Oh, happy day.
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