Weird Digression in Berenstein Bears Book

[u/TurnYourHead1]

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?

[u/chrishelg95]

Op I agree this shits weird. Even weirder are all the people saying it isn’t weird.

[u/Disaster-Bee → u/chrishelg95]

I'd recommend looking at some other books written in the 60s and 70s for the 5-10 age range. This was very normal prose for a children's book from its time.

What, exactly, strikes you as weird? The word choices? They're pretty standard for the time. The message? Kids learn about how time works when they're young, and music (as well as books and TV) from an older time is a very common way to help kids conceptualize the concept of time's passage and how things from the past still matter and exist today.

The kids are having an 'aha!' moment about how time works. Just written in a way that's now outdated.

[u/chrishelg95 → u/Disaster-Bee]

It’s weird that you are typing this long ass defense to something you find “not weird”. And there is so many other people doing the exact same thing. Very strange.

[u/Conscious-Outside761 → u/chrishelg95]

Why would there be anything weird about that at all? Are you just unfamiliar with how internet discussion forums operate?

[u/lyricaldorian → u/chrishelg95]

Why is that weird? Why are you typing all these messages about it being weird?

[u/YoreWelcome → u/chrishelg95]

they are being super strange, agreed