As a mother what are your feelings towards Dora the explorer?

I think it depends on your child whether it is obtaining your goal. My son likes it, but he doesn't repeat any of it. My friend's son is the same age..3 and he loves it so much he repeats everything!!! My son repeated more of the different languages on Baby Einstein than Dora.

I personally do not like Dora at all, i mean sure its got some benifits, but i live in canada and our second language is NOT spanish. It is french. And i know that kids learn from repetition, but we need to be able to tolerate the show too right ? I just really can't stand it. I think the first one i seen was the one where dora's mom is having a baby. and that one is REALLY repetative, and i refuse to let my daughter watch that show, or barney either. I dislike both of those shows, and if i have any say she will never watch either. She really doesnt' have much intrest in tv at all so that is good. She really enjoys her books though. I'm glad, but i have never really turned the tv on much for her. IF the tv is on then its usually on the kids music station that our provider has. I think its treehouse music. She does however really like rolly polly ollie, which i doubt is very educational, but she only sees it probably once a week.

My son is almost 9 so when he was starting to get out of the little kid cartoons, Dora was just starting up. Out of the cartoons that were available at the time (Teletubbies, Blues Clue, etc) I did not find it bad at all. He did pick up some of the Spanish words, which is great because kids need to be exposed to a second language as soon as possible. I didn't find it as repeatative and annoying as many other kids shows are.

I do not have kids, but did watch it once and it made me crazy, but then I am not the intended audience. A story of why I watched Dora - I was at work, we were at a walk for Autism, I work with developmentally disabled adults, when one of the guys came up to me and started speaking in Spanish. I told him I did not understand Spanish and his reply was to tell me to watch Dora and learn it. My understanding was he learned the fundamentals watching Dora, then he started learning more from other children's books and toys and had learned some solid fundamentals starting with Dora where he learned to like Spanish

Personally I think it does. My little nephew just shouts out spanish words once in a while without anybody teaching him those. He also counts pretty well like what they do in the show. I think her show is both entertaining and intellectually stimulating. They make room for children's responses so they not only watch but also take part of the show. And Dora seems to be talking to the viewers.