#Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle

[who-do-i-know-this-man]

⚠️Vote for whomever YOU DO NOT KNOW⚠️‼️

[90s-2000s-barbie]

Shelly Duvall Presents Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (1994)

Idk if anyone remembers this show. I use to get it out at the library.

[kidlit-queen-competition]

Round 1 Poll 22: Alanna of Trebond from Song of the Lioness vs Mrs.Piggle-Wiggle

Propaganda under the cut:

Alanna:

Absolute badass. First female Knight in all of Tortall. The books are all about her challenges with growing up disguising her gender, romance, duty, heroism, and finding your place in the world -- and struggling to accept when it isn't the one you'd expected. In later series by Tamora Pierce you get to see her as a mother, too, which is rad as heck. Totally inspiring character to me as a kid, and one of the first fantasy book/series I remembered reading with a girl protagonist.

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle:

You asked for queens, and she is The queen!

[rohans-daughter]

"It is just that sometimes with children, especially boys, their bodies grow faster than their patience and kindness. ... Busy children are happy children, and happy children are seldom quarrelsome."

from "Hello, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle" by Betty MacDonald

[indestructibleannajay]

The things you find in old books. From "Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle" by Betty MacDonald

[jewishdragon]

How to Cure* Yourself of Being a Picky Eater**

by JewishDragon

Step 1: Be me, a same foods picky eater autistic.

Step 2: Have a family member (who doesnt live nearby) be an enthusiastic chef. Loves to cook for people and experiment with cooking. Just throws shit together.

Step 3: Go 2 decades being wary of visiting this relative because you're an extremely picky eater and feel very ashamed when you stay at this relative's house.

Step 4: Get your first summer internship away from home and get housed by this family member who lives 10min from the internship

Step 5: Make a silent vow to Get A Good Grade In house Guest (a very reasonable thing to desire), since you are staying rent free. The vow includes

Clean the dishes after dinner without being prompted

Empty the dish washer without being prompted

Do your own laundry

Pick up after yourself and take out the trash before trash day!

TASTE, HAVE JUST ONE BITE, OF EVERYTHING THIS RELATIVE COOKS

Step 6: have a 3 month summer internship become several years as you get a full time job (and then START YOUR PHD) in the same town. While you now pay a smidge of rent, THE VOW CONTINUES

Step 7: Profit

(Expand your pallet, Discover what flavor profiles/textures you like and dislike with more nuance than ever before. Be able to go out to eat with friends and family without the anxiety over wondering if you'll be able to eat, or have to order from the kids menu as a 20+ year old. But overall, most importantly, it becomes easier to try a new food)

*JewishDragon does not guarantee any part of this method, this method will not work for most people for many reasons.

**This post is made in good humor. I am not claiming picky eating is something to BE cured. I am just telling the story of my journey of being a picky eater. I am still not an adventurous eater. For example: It took me 6 years from my first making the vow before i was brave enough to try a small drop of ranch/caesar style dressing on a single piece of lettuce. (I REALLY wanted to get a good grade in house guest at a weekly nerd gathering!) (also texture is a HUGE issue for me that i cannot expect to ever be "cured".)

(I also am a huge samefoods autistic, i can eat the same thing for two weeks and the only reason I would switch to something else for the next week or so is I ran out of the Thing)

[theodoradove]

I can't find the original post (thank you tumblr search [dys]function) but these hiccup cures have actually worked for me:

Dump salt on your tongue (in my experience this works most of the time)

Dump sugar on your tongue (the one time salt didn't work, this did)

Eat a lemon (haven't tried this one yet, but given the success of the others I will share it)

[acceptedsimulation]

Past, Present, and Future Reads

Current, unfinished reads:

Dracula (1897) Rivals (1988) A Game of Thrones (1996) Crime and Punishment (1866)

Previously read books that I really enjoyed:

❅ To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) ❅ Go Set a Watchman (2015) ❅ Push (1996) ❅ Forever (1975) ❅ The Perks of Being a Wallflower (1999) ❅ Stalking Jack the Ripper series (2016-2019) ❅ The Mrs. Piggle Wiggle Treasury (1985) ❅ Claire of the Sea Light (2013) ❅ The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) ❅ A Tale of Two Cities (1859) ❅ Nothing But the Truth (1991) ❅ A Man Called Ove (2012) ❅ Fahrenheit 451 (1953) ❅ Animal Farm (1945) ❅ The Odyssey (1997) ❅ A Midsummer Night's Dream (2003) ❅The Great Gatsby (1925)

Books that I plan to read in the future:

❅ Frankenstein (1818) ❅ Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave (1845) ❅ The Canterbury Tales (1387-1400) ❅ The Crucible (1953) ❅ Scarlet Letter (1850) ❅ Anna Karenina (1878) ❅ White Nights (1848) ❅ Hamlet (1623)

[cornyonmains]

Something I think about a lot is there's a Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle book where a kid starts eating his food in really tiny bites, and everyone's all like, "What should we do Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle?"

And she looked at these small children and was like, "Let's starve him."

[josephconrads]

Title: Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Magic

Author: Betty MacDonald

Rating: 3 out of 5

Review: When I was in the first grade (age six), my teacher would read to us everyday after lunch. The lights would be turned off, we'd be encouraged to lay our heads down, close our eyes, and listen as she read a chapter from whatever book we were going through. I have fond memories of the Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle series because of these moments. Stumbled upon this at a thrift store and had to pick it up. This brought back so much nostalgia and fun. It's a really clever way to teach children manners through magical stories and make it clear what is good behavior vs bad behavior. For example, the stories in this ranged from dealing with bad table manners to interrupting. Overall, their a hit of nostalgic fun for me.

[who-do-i-know-this-man]

Trick or treat!

Sup! Your blorbo is Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle)

[starfieldcanvas]

somebody make one of those clasped hands memes for Anne Shirley and Sara Crewe from A Little Princess

Now I get it. Anne Shirley was right; sometimes pretending you’re an exiled princess fallen from her state or a wealthy criminal who’s decided to take a minimum wage job to evade detection IS the only way to get through the work day

[fictionadventurer]

Random Asks: 12, 16

12. favorite book sequel?

The King of Attolia is the pinnacle of the Queen's Thief series.

16. what is the first “big kid book” aka chapter book, that you remember reading after learning how to read?

I don't remember. Probably some silly chapter book series for early readers. Though my mom introduced me to Pippi Longstocking and Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle pretty early.

[andthingsleftover]

You’ve unlocked a core memory for me I think I learned about lapis lazuli from Mrs piggle wiggle too I just never remembered it how many of the books did you read?

Growing up, we had a big book with a lot of sample stories or excerpts from kid's books. I think that was the story of the boy who wouldn't clean his room and got stuck in it and couldn't go to the circus when it came to town - moral: keep your room tidy - and I think i only read the first actual book once (the kid who refused to go to bed with a cure of not going to bed until he was so incredibly tired he slept through a party, the 'i thought you said...' girls who were fed powder that made their hearing very sharp so they couldn't misunderstand anymore).

Anyway the lapis thing was in the intro as an aside, told at the same time as 'she never punished a child, not even when Mary Ellen dropped the tea pot and it shattered all over the floor. 'We can make tea in the coffee pot and call it toffee,' said Mrs. Pigglewiggle.'

One of the kids was eating candy and reading a book about precious stones and drooling and got the pages stuck together and Mrs Pigglewiggle said she also felt like drooling over some of the stones and said her favourite was lapis lazuli and i immediately went to the encyclopedia to figure out what lapis was.

[wearethekat]

November Book Reviews: Misery Hates Company by Elizabeth Hobbs

Picked up from the library new books section. Miss Marigold Manners, finding that her dead parents have left her no money whatsoever, packs up to stay with distant cousins on the charmingly named Hatchet Farm on Great Misery Island. Unfortunately, it seems that the farm is a crumbling gothic ruin, her cousins dour and unwelcoming, and her situation more troubling than she was expecting…

Miss Marigold Manners, as one might guess from the name, is a heroine wrought along the lines of Mary Poppins or Mrs Piggle Wiggle. Nothing thwarts her, she has endless plans, and she will improve you, whether you like it or not—starting with her unhappy cousin's family and their run-down house. It's a very bracing attitude to read about, but it does rather spoil the tension, as you know Miss Marigold Manners will solve anything, up to and including a murder. I would also argue it disqualifies the book from being a Gothic, since Miss Marigold Manners is not afraid of that house and would not be caught dead wandering the gloomy New England seaside in a nightdress.

Recommended for people who'd like to see a stern twenty-year-old in Gilded Age New England plow over all her problems like a steam train.

[stillwaitin76]

Thank you for the tag! Since you’re interested in hearing both my headcanons and ocs, here they are! For the characters Peter played:

Joel Cairo:

Ah yes, my blorbo. My scrunkly doo. Now, I don’t exactly see him being a good babysitter. If it isn’t his inherent responsibility, he doesn’t care much. Not to mention, he has temper tantrums like a little kid, so there would be one actual kid and one adult (who has a child’s immaturity). BUT, I feel he would be a pretty good parent. He knows the responsibilities with being a father and would take it on, if he felt like he could settle down. But I do see him being a “girl dad” more. In his words, “Boys are dumb. I should know, I’ve gotten caught up with the dumbest.”

But if you have a little girl, who came from a rough home-life, Joel will pamper and spoil the hell out of her! Besides the pampering, he’d be quite empathetic towards her and any problems or trauma she may face. Also, considering his knowledge on art, she could grow to have a nice academic background. Just be warned, he may teach her how to use a pistol…

Mr. Munsey:

I know this guy was from an unsold pilot but I know for a fact that he would be a great babysitter. He’s surprisingly gentle, despite the grumpy old man exterior. He’d teach the kids how to sculpt (probably with play-dough, as he doesn’t want them to eat his actual clay) and would tell them all kinds of stories from his past jobs. Plus, it’s a package deal! Henry would absolutely help out and would bring their kitten, Hannibal, alongside them.

Now for my lorre-inspired ocs and how they would fare…:

Harold Kaminsky:

Now, I love Harold. He’s one of my favorite ocs, but there’s one thing you have to know about him... He’s a ghost. So, if you’re a human kid and you come across him, you would probably run away before he could even say hello. But if you’re a monster parent looking for someone to babysit your kid, he probably still wouldn’t be your number one pick. He’s got a lack of focus and gets easily distracted. Not to mention, he’s more comparable to a wine aunt. He’ll spill all the tea you didn’t wanna know, but is an absolute blast to hang out with!

Niffty:

(Now, she isn’t exactly a oc. She’s from my rewrite of Hazbin Hotel, @hotter-than-hell-rewrite. But she’s my most recent Lorre oc/parody and I wanted to add her.)

Now Niffty isn’t the most, let’s say… “mentally healthy” soul. She’s kinda similar to the Igor archetype or Dr. Herman, and will do anything that her boss will tell her to do. But, she does love the idea of being a caring housewife figure! She’ll bake the kids cookies, join in on their games, help bandage any injuries they might get, etc. But don’t let her babysit especially impudent kids, they’ll probably make her cry. And don’t let the kids make a mess, for Satan’s sake! There’s a reason she’s a janitor in Hell!

Nikolai Corman:

Finally! We have someone who’s fit to be a babysitter, as that’s his unofficial job! He and his husbands, Clyde and Cornelius are macabre parodies of characters like Mary Poppins and Mrs. Piggle Wiggle. No matter how grumpy Nikolai may seem, he adores the latchkey kids that run around his home. He absolutely teaches the kids how to use the classic Lorre Puppy Dog Eyes™️ and tells them stories and cautionary tales from his motherland. Struwwellpeter anyone? Anyway, he and his husbands are very protective of the kids and are willing to help them with their problems.

(I need to redraw them, it’s been a hot second lol)

this is a silly question but I'm genuinely curious: which lorre characters would make the best babysitters?

LOVE this question.

Short answer: Just about all of them, depending on your views. Here are just a few - join in, folks!

Polo

You'll never have a better organized home once Polo becomes part of it! Particularly skilled at teaching youngsters how to organize jewelry boxes, heirlooms, and other portable items of worth. You've never been so clutter-free! And all with an uncrackable good humor and a smile so sweet, you'll want to keep him forever. Note: Polo is up for adoption; inquire at the agency.

Dr. Herman Einstein

Best at influencing future professions in the realm of reconstructive surgery or as distillery owners, Herman also teaches choice Germanic phrases and the art of leaving a room gracefully if quickly. Plus, you get a two-for-one deal: Herman is accompanied by his jovial pal, Uncle Jonathan, who has a full bag of tricks to amuse and divert your children. You'll never look at your sewing kit the same way again!

Dr. Gogol

A distant relation to Dr. Einstein, call on "Helping Hands" Gogol for the next level of medical profession influence in the surgical realm. His eccentric manner will delight and amaze your children as they learn the latest techniques. Includes field trips for research purposes. Preference given to neighborhoods near gallows. Note: Households must clear a space for Gogol's equipment, which includes a wax effigy - on which to demonstrate surgical techniques, of course.

Colonel Gimpy/The Baron

Are your children interested in the theatrical arts? Call on Colonel Gimpy - he'll get the whole neighborhood of kids learning all sorts of techniques, from the innocent art of misdirection to making amusing owl faces and blowing horns. And for children who prefer the art of gathering and imparting information, Gimpy provides his completely innocuous persona of The Baron. Set your child up with a lifetime of transferable skills!