CD NAGS CHILDREN FOR THEIR PARENTS.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. If I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times . . . Now you may never have to say that to your children again. Instead, buy Rowena Starling's compact disc ``I'll Say It Again,'' with her top 24 nags, and have your CD player nag your kids for you. The Berkeley painter and mother said she came up with the idea after telling her now 8-year-old son to do something for the umpteenth time. ``You know, over the years, you just say things over and over again,'' Starling starling, any of a group of originally Old World birds that have become distributed worldwide. Starlings were brought to New York in 1890; since then the common starling (Sturnus vulgaris) has spread throughout North America. says. ``Finally, it just hit me like a ton of bricks. Why don't I record this?'' So she did. Taking out the trash. Mowing mow 1 n. 1. The place in a barn where hay, grain, or other feed is stored. 2. A stack of hay or other feed stored in a barn. the lawn. Cleaning up your room. Every dreadful chore is covered on the 24-track compilation, to the probable dismay of children everywhere who will no longer be able to escape parental nagging, even by wearing earphones. The lyrics lyrics npl [of song] → paroles fpl lyrics lyric npl [of song] → Text m are enough to make any child cringe cringe intr.v. cringed, cring·ing, cring·es 1. To shrink back, as in fear; cower. 2. To behave in a servile way; fawn. n. An act or instance of cringing. : ``Clean up the bathroom. Clean the bathroom. This helps protect your body from bacterial infection. Love your body. Clean the bathroom.'' Starling said she decided to make the CD, recorded at Berkeley's Fantasy Records Fantasy Records is a United States based record label, which was founded by Max and Sol Weiss in 1949 in San Francisco, California. The early years of the company were dedicated to issuing recordings by Dave Brubeck, Cal Tjader, Vince Guaraldi and other jazz music artists. , after she realized children need to hear certain commands ``over and over again to get it.'' But that doesn't mean you have to repeat it yourself, she says. Instead let the CD do it for you: ``It's time It's Time was a successful political campaign run by the Australian Labor Party (ALP) under Gough Whitlam at the 1972 election in Australia. Campaigning on the perceived need for change after 23 years of conservative (Liberal Party of Australia) government, Labor put forward a to get up. Rise and shine. Make the world a better place by gracing it with your smile . . . Get up. Now. Get up, get up, get up. Get up.'' Starling says parents can give themselves a break from nagging by plopping her CD into their stereo systems, punching the repeat button, and walking away. ``This CD represents a typical day for me,'' she says. ``There are times when I'm exhausted and I won't say it again. I put the CD on and my son knows there will be punishment if the chores don't get done.'' The CD may be punishment enough. What 8-year-old wants to hear ``Stop that noise! Stop that noise! Stop that noise! Stop that noise! Stop that noise!'' looped over and over again? Children may not be begging for the $11.95 CD this Christmas, but it's their parents who are her market, she says. ``Do you realize how many children there are?'' she says with a laugh. ``This is just the beginning.'' |
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