{"id":1704,"date":"2009-06-29T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/79.170.44.80\/livingwithkids.co.uk\/dinosaurs-are-always-cool\/"},"modified":"2013-06-24T13:14:26","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T13:14:26","slug":"dinosaurs-are-always-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/dinosaurs-are-always-cool\/","title":{"rendered":"Dinosaurs are always cool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  When he was very young my friend Lisa&#39;s son Jack once woke up in the middle of the night crying. &#39;Mummy,&#39; he sobbed. &#39;Why did all the dinosaurs have to die?&#39; Bless. Maybe it&#39;s some sort of primal instinct, but in my experience boys in particular seem to love all things prehistoric. In fact, it can become a bit of an obsession (we still have a ludicrously&nbsp;large collection of model T-rex, steogosaurus and the rest).   <\/p>\n<p>  So yesterday we took what can only be described as a tribe of boys ranging in ages from eight to 15 to a preview of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iceagemovie.com\" target=\"_blank\">Ice Age 3<\/a>.   <\/p>\n<p>     If like us you saw the first Ice Age film but missed the second one, don&#39;t worry -it&#39;s easy enough to follow, is big on laughs&nbsp;and has the added bonus of Simon Pegg as one of the voices. The animation is brilliant, too, especially the T-rex babies. All the boys (even the permanently unimpressed teens) seemed to enjoy it, and there was very little crying and whinging from the audience, adults included.      <\/p>\n<td width=\"5%\">     <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 0pt none; margin: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.livingwithkids.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/6\/IceAge_290609.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"165\" height=\"184\" \/>&nbsp;           <br \/> \n<p>  Oh, and&nbsp;if you&#39;re looking for a great way to cool off your family in the current heatwave, take it from me &#8211; two hours in an air-conditioned cinema watching a film set in a frozen world works wonders.   <\/p>\n<p> written by Liz Jarvis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When he was very young my friend Lisa&#39;s son Jack once woke up in the middle of the night crying. &#39;Mummy,&#39; he sobbed. &#39;Why did all the dinosaurs have to die?&#39; Bless. 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