{"id":1587,"date":"2018-09-04T08:33:56","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T07:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eal.pjb.co.uk\/?p=1587"},"modified":"2018-09-11T11:23:16","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T10:23:16","slug":"kacper-still-does-not-talk-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eal.pjb.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/09\/04\/kacper-still-does-not-talk-to-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Kacper still does not talk to us"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-1587\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-1587-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-1587-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-1587-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<div dir=\"ltr\">\"Kacper still does not talk to us\", a worried nursery worker said to me. \"Could you talk to him in Polish, maybe he will feel better then\".<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>I took\u00a0 pictures of\u00a0 some well-known Polish bedtime cartoons. When Kacper saw the little black mole, his eyes lit up. \"Krecik, krecik\" (mole, mole), he pointed excitedly to the picture. Things took off rapidly. Kacper pointed to the animals, named them in Polish and his key worker gave him the English words for them.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Just a simple example of how a familiar context can alleviate anxiety.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Cartoon bedtime stories were on Polish national TV Channel One\u00a0 till 2013. Every evening, for around10-20 minutes, depending on the day of the week, generations of Polish children watched the adventures of Bolek i Lolek, Maja the little bee, Teddy Floppy- Ear, Reksio the dog and many others. Cartoons were also from Russia, France, Germany or the Czech Republic.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Now Polish children watch Bob the Builder, Peppa Pig or Fireman Sam on Polish TV. But some of their parents might show them the old bedtime cartoons on other media.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><figure id=\"attachment_1589\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1589\" style=\"width: 401px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/eal.pjb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Krtek.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1589\" src=\"http:\/\/eal.pjb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Krtek.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"401\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"http:\/\/eal.pjb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Krtek.png 223w, http:\/\/eal.pjb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Krtek-210x150.png 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 401px) 100vw, 401px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1589\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Krtek, the Czech mole cartoon character, is known to generations of Central and East European children<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1593\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1593\" style=\"width: 619px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/eal.pjb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Bolek-and-Lolek.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1593\" src=\"http:\/\/eal.pjb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Bolek-and-Lolek.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"619\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"http:\/\/eal.pjb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Bolek-and-Lolek.png 760w, http:\/\/eal.pjb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Bolek-and-Lolek-300x203.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 619px) 100vw, 619px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1593\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still from \"Bolek and Lolek\", photo: Studio Film\u00f3w Rysunkowych Bielsko-Bia\u0142a - SFR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"color: #f75707;\"><em>Useful Resources:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"title\"><em><span style=\"color: #f75707;\"><a style=\"color: #f75707;\" href=\"https:\/\/culture.pl\/en\/article\/an-introduction-to-polish-cartoon-characters\">An Introduction to Polish Cartoon Characters<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"title\"><em><span style=\"color: #f75707;\"><a style=\"color: #f75707;\" href=\"https:\/\/culture.pl\/en\/article\/time-honoured-polish-bedtime-cartoons\">Time-Honoured Polish Bedtime Cartoons<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PkGRcCviCxo\" width=\"760\" height=\"453\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Kacper still does not talk to us&#8221;, a worried nursery worker said to me. &#8220;Could you talk to him in Polish, maybe he will feel better then&#8221;.\u00a0I took\u00a0 pictures of\u00a0 some well-known Polish bedtime cartoons. When Kacper saw the little black mole, his eyes lit up. &#8220;Krecik, krecik&#8221; (mole, mole), he pointed excitedly to the <a class=\"moretag\" href=\"http:\/\/eal.pjb.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/09\/04\/kacper-still-does-not-talk-to-us\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1593,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,43],"tags":[83,87,85],"class_list":["post-1587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-classroom-resources","category-polish-literature","tag-bolek-i-lolek","tag-krecik","tag-polish-bedtime-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eal.pjb.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eal.pjb.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eal.pjb.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eal.pjb.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eal.pjb.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1587"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/eal.pjb.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1617,"href":"http:\/\/eal.pjb.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions\/1617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eal.pjb.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eal.pjb.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eal.pjb.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eal.pjb.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}