A video for younger kids needing to relax and watch the beauty of the world unfold
A video for everyone!
BONUS:
Bloopers are included to let you know that the process was not as easy as it appeared.
The makers of this video hope it will be used either at home to provide moms with 30 minutes of peace of mind knowing their children are watching something entertaining and beneficial for their development or played in your car DVD player on the way to a social event. SocialKid wants to help introduce solid traditional manners into your child's life.
Ted Runnels and Kent Fields have been best friends since elementary school. Ted and Kent, both fathers of three, have shared a lifetime of great experiences together. But now, the two pals have embarked on their greatest and most challenging adventure ever - fatherhood.
On an unseasonably warm October night, the two thirty-somethings were shooting baskets as they have done hundreds of times before. Then one of Kent's children blurted out an inappropriate phrase learned on children's television. "We've got to do something about this," Ted suggested and the creation of SocialKid had begun. They promptly started working on a script that would provide parents and grandparents a tool for their children's behavior to be reinforced with positive, polite language and actions in a simple, yet entertaining way.
Providing a video emphasizing "Good Manners" for an audience, ranging from 2 to 9 years old, with a collage of natural beauty as a background, Ted and Kent determined that children placed in various real life scenarios, would be more effective in illustrating basic common courtesies. Needing a strong, positive, adult figure to guide the children of the video, led to the creation of "Mr.Manners". It was quickly determined that since Ted had a tuxedo and there was no way Kent could fit into it, Ted would become "Mr.Manners". This meant Kent would now take the rude and foolish villian character, "Mr.Sloppy".
"A couple of southern gentlemen take on Hollywood, and bring good ole American values to our kids. A must video for ages 2-9."
- Jack Ison, ESPN
