[Pretty [insert your little princess's name *hereby referred to as "#"] and Her Mermaid Princess]

Pretty [insert your little princess's name *hereby referred to as "#"] and Her Mermaid Princess by Philo

Once upon a time and not very far way was a pretty little girl named #.

Everyone else loved her and called her Pretty #.

One day, after finishing her school assignments, Pretty # took her allowance to the toy store.

There were so many toys to choose from.

Pretty # picked the mermaid princess toy and paid eight dollars.

She loved her mermaid princess toy very much.

She took her mermaid princess toy whenever she would go, and showed it all of her favorite places.

One day, as Pretty # took her mermaid princess toy to the beach, something strange started to happen.

Her mermaid princess toy started talking to her.

"I am a real mermaid princess, but a bad witch made me into a toy."

I could turn turn into a real princess again by my dolphin friends."

Pretty # was kind and gentle. She couldn't bear to see the mermaid princess suffer.

She had an idea.

She called out "dolphins" to the sea as loudly as she could.

Suddenly, six magical dolphins appeared and started to swim towards the shore.

Altogether they said to Pretty  # :

"Thank you for rescuing our mermaid princess!"

They took the mermaid princess toy back into their fins and chanted something magical to the it.

Then came a loud noise, "bang!"

The mermaid princess toy turned into a beautiful life-sized mermaid princess with long flowing blond hair and a dazzling crown made of seashells.

"Thank you, Pretty #, for turning me back into a real mermaid princess!

Now please allow me to take you to my palace so my father, the King of mermen and mermaids, could give you a handsome reward."

The King of mermen and maids presented Pretty # with a silverish pink crown for saving his daughter, saying: "You are now also a princess of the sea."

After the crowning ceremony, the mermen and mermaids threw a big party in honor of their new princess--Princess Pretty #.

It was one of the most wonderful days for Pretty #--or shall we now call her--Princess Pretty #.
 
None of us would ever forget that magical day.

The End.

Title: Just Perfect

Kitty wants to find a perfect home.

 This home is too big.
 This home is too small.
   
 This home is too dark.
 This home is too bright.

 This home is too hot.
 This home is too cold.

This home is purr-fect inside.
   
 

I think a kid shouldn't watch TV for more than half an hour a day, as recommended by educators and child psychologists. Excessive TV watching decreases a child's attention span (after all, how can reading, or writing, be compared to something as animated and undemanding as TV-watching) and is also debiliting towards a child's optical nerve (desensitizes a child's perception to colors and soundsd due to overexposure).  A child with excessive TV-watching is also more predisposed to having nightmares due to his inability to regurgitate the contents like adults do.  I personally believe that a child should be refrained from any TV-watching (reading books can be extremely fun and rewarding) until he comes to the stage of self-discipline.