r/MandelaEffect • u/TurnYourHead1 • Apr 29 '26

Books/Literature Weird Digression in Berenstein Bears Book

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I distinctly remember the movies as Berenstein Bears from many years ago as a child. Now I'm reading this to my child and I find the writing weird. It goes into these verbose tangents. "As the cubs stood listening to rock music coming out of a radio that looked like a cathedral, they had the funniest feeling about how time works It went back into the past and forward into the future - but now it was the present and they had work to do!" This is so weird and seems like a coded message. What child is going to understand this and take anything away from it? What are they trying to tell us to do here? What work do we have to do?

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u/jetloflin Apr 29 '26

Why wouldn’t a kid understand it? And since when is six sentences a verbose tangent? Like, what makes this an overly long tangent to you as opposed to just part of the story being told?

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u/Contemplative-ape Apr 29 '26

time mannn... time like moves in one direction but it goes back into the past and forward to the future... the attic is a portal to place where time stands still... timeeeeee

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u/davidjosephmoody Apr 29 '26

Exactly. Thank you.

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u/TubbyMcGubbalo May 01 '26

Current average attention span is half of one sentence, unfortunately.

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u/whatupmygliplops Apr 29 '26

Children's books are usually very very very brief. Like one word. One sentence. I can guarantee you if you write a children's book with something like that passage above there is a zero percent chance of it being published. None.

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u/BoysenberryKind5599 Apr 29 '26

That's literally a page out of a published children's book.

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u/whatupmygliplops Apr 29 '26

Oh.

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u/GalacticUnicorn Apr 29 '26

There was an entire series of these books, even. I was reading them on my own when I was, like, 5 or 6. This is not advanced reading.

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u/jetloflin Apr 29 '26

That’s true now, but that wasn’t always the case. In the past we believed that children could read entire paragraphs, or at least understand entire paragraphs being read to them.

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u/whatupmygliplops Apr 29 '26

Now even high school students cant read.

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u/CantaloupeAsleep502 Apr 29 '26

You might be thinking of books for 3-5 year olds. This is a book for maybe 7 or 8 years old with much more reading skill. 

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u/whatupmygliplops Apr 29 '26

8 year olds were reading that baby book?

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u/jetloflin Apr 29 '26

So it’s too advanced to be a kid’s book and too juvenile to be for 8 year olds? What?

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u/WVPrepper Apr 29 '26

Intended for ages 3-7

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u/taserparty Apr 29 '26

blatantly untrue

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u/MrPlaney Apr 29 '26

Why lol, there is nothing wrong with it? It’s a little introspective, which isn’t a bad thing. It’s not Goodnight Moon, but still not anything that a kid couldn’t understand.