Last episode was bölüm/episode 40, which you can find with all of the other episodes, linked at the end of this review:
First, the episode begins with Suzan being a bit child-like, wanting to have a girls night out, and then Taci behaves like a child with Dudu’s new love interest, Kendal Bey, telling her that the phone was left off the hook when he actually told her almost-new-boyfriend to go away. Then, the kids, Cem and Ceren, are being very childish in the bathroom, fighting, and finally, the littlest kid, Çilek, continues to be very childish by both pouting about wanting to play with the Magical Time Crystal Ball, a powerful and dangerous tool, which Perihan has forbidden anyone to touch, and then continuing to call Yavuz, the adult son of Kendal Bey, by his name, rather than adding the honorific abi, which is required of most kids in Turkey when addressing an adult of just the next generation older than they are (kids and even adults address older persons by Name+Teyze or Name+Amca out of similar respect). Even Yavuz is behaving like a child, in calling Sadık dostum, a bit like calling a co-worker ‘pal’ rather than addressing him by his name.
Naturally, Dudu is being child-like, insisting on going with Kendal Bey to the cafe, which is a young people’s meeting place. Of course this means that they run into Yavuz and Eda, both of whom end up being told off by their parents and sent home. Meanwhile, of course, little Çilek is busy looking for the forbidden Time Crystal Ball, even magically faking the voice of Firuze and thus lying to Betüş, and then playing with the tool, while neighbor Avni spies on her, in his child-like way, as usual. When the news of the littlest child’s mischief comes out, Suzan is at her most child-like, desperate to find out the news that has nothing to do with her.
One of the things I love most about this show is how it models, or rather how Betüş models good parenting. She never hits any of the kids, and as far as I can recall, never even yells at them. Even when little Çilek is at her worst, she never yells, even when she needs to restrain her from hitting or using her magic to do harm. Betüş always explains, sometimes more patiently than others, of course, but always explains, discusses, and works to get buy-in and agreement from the kids, even from little Çilek.
Another thing I love is the way looks are exchanged in order to communicate non-verbally, far more often among Turks, I think, than in Anglophone societies (at least in the US).
And I love how both kids give push back on their parents selfish behavior when Kendal Bey asks his son, Yavuz, why he couldn’t find another girl to fall in love with, and Yavuz tells his father not to tell him who he can or cannot fall in love with. Eda is not quite as firm with her mother, simply throwing a minor temper tantrum at Dudu, but following far more meekly. Taci, Eda and Betüş’s father, faces the risk of abuse from Dudu in order to tell her that she has no right to tell their daughter who to fall in love with. Fortunately, Perihan arrives just in time to protect both Taci and Eda from Dudu’s wrath.
I also love how Turks generally work to make peace with other people, both in families, as shown in this episode, and also as I saw in Izmir at work, when all of my colleagues gathered around for over an hour to comfort and support a weeping co-worker who was in tears over her credit card debt, something which shocked me both for the communal support at work, and also the very fact that they did not simply tell her that it was all her fault for spending too much. Likewise, here, this episode shows family members taking lots of time and patience to resolve disputes and problems between even the kids, where in most other societies, I think, the offending and/or offended parties would all be told to ‘get over it’ and “deal.”
Yet, while Dudu is childishly pouting about her punishment from Perihan, Taci manages to get through to her and persuade her to go to her hurting daughter, closed up in her room for hours. What they find shocks them: somehow little Çilek has managed to return her aunt Eda to a state of about 4 years old, which delights Dudu, but enrages a powerless Eda. Even Perihan is apparently unable to undo little Çilek’s magic, shocking them all. What I love about this show is that even with this wicked little act of rebellion, no one raises a hand against the little rebellious fairy child, nor even raises a voice (well, Dudu does occasionally shout at her, but Taci always reproves her for it). And of course, the powerless Eda threatens to cream the poor little kid, who merely laughs at her, and demands that in return for being returned to her adult state, she must not continue to date Yavuz! What a daring little creature our 5 year old Strawberry is!
| 6 Iyyar · Mon night, | מַּלְכוּת שֶׁבְּתִּפאֶרֶת Majesty within Beauty |
” -thanks again, Hebcal.
nested idea set is Health care and Free legal debt-related education, which both require good healthy support for kids from families and friends, both in a mental health regard, and also in a physical health regard, of course. Kids also need to be taught how to keep themselves safe from financial predators, and how to keep themselves up to date on changing laws related to debt and consumer finance. I think that this show does model that, as we shall see in upcoming episodes. (Later update: too bad I didn’t think of this updated review title until after it posted…)Shira
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I will admit that this particular word did not stick until a Greek friend used it in a sentence while speaking with me, and then reprimanded me for forgetting the word, since it is such a basic word, and he knew that our class had already (or ought to have) learned it by that time. That worked. I was so embarrassed that I never forgot the word after that, when I heard it spoken! Nevertheless, this is not a tactic (embarrassing a person in order to teach vocabulary) that I would recommend using for language learning. Stories give enough exposure to words in context that reading or watching videos really helps. Like watching Sihirli Annem on Turkish Tuesdays (sorry, some of my older Greek friends, I do love that show, and no, Greek friends, you will *not* catch fire and burn if you watch an episode of this show, even in Turkish!!!) helped make Turkish language learning a lovely experience for me.
in the original written Ancient Greek of the Septuagint ( and this Historical Fiction Writing posts page also links to my series of articles on novel writing, and also links to one of my novels still in progress, including my prequel series in honor of
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Aside from making the entire ministry look like a bunch of idiots, and then hiring this guy, after fixing history of course, to keep up his podcast as a distraction from the ministry, nothing of interest seems to have happened that I can recall, in this episode. Except for Alonso learning some banalities of modern culture from Elena about low maintenance dating standards, and his disappointment in her fear of commitment, nothing is memorable in this one, surprisingly, for me. This is the only chapter of this series that I can recall not actually liking, during the first two seasons. But, nothing is perfect, right? Maybe that is also why this is one of the few episodes this season with no hashtag.
Y Velázquez está escribiendo una carta que iba a dimitir, pero no ahora, ya que sus cuadros se están siendo robados intertemporales. Pero Amelia y su patrulla están libres por la fin de semana y no hay patrulla de guardia, por falta de personaje. Así que van Irene y… Velázquez!!
que no sabe comer como los ricos y las dos la están mirando pero el padre se charla amablemente con ella. Que gran hombre! Y me encanta ese postre que están comiendo a la catalán.
se mantenía en poder.
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El Sitio de Baler, con ese teniente loco que creiya que los periódicos son falsificados y se niega a rendir su sitio. Es el poder. Exigiendo pendejadas para mantener su poder. Resistiendo para nada. Casi un año. Muriendo por nada.
, creo yo. Un teniente que rehúsa escuchar a sus hombres inteligentes y experimentos es un peligro para el ejército. Y ese teniente, por desgracia, terminó al mando. Por eso, por su orgullo y su estupidez, se convirtió en Los Últimos de Filipinas.” 
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