True story, honestly im excited to hear the new season of Futurama is great!
Paw Patrol is copaganda for toddlers. Learning bad words from Bender is less harmful than getting indoctrinated by it.
Got a call from the school when my oldest was in kindergarten… “Your child just yelled ‘bite my shiny metal ass’ in the library.” I was proud and embarrassed at the same time.
Unironically, Bluey.
Best show on television. Fight me.
Bluey sets an unrealistic expectation for how much child chef food a parent will eat.
Bluey sets an unrealistic expectation for how much child chef food a parent will eat.
FTFY. I can’t keep up trying to be Bandit
Just remember, the show is 7 minutes long. These are highlights of the day, where they spend less than ten minutes focusing on play and pretend.
But yeah, that dog is amazing.
And if I have to pretend one more time that my hand is Shaun the emu, I think I may lose my mind.
Fight me.
Can we do a Blueyathon instead, so we can see all the foreshadowing they’ve secretly been doing all along? Take the Winton foreshadowing of his dad bumping into the mom of one of the other kids at a store…
spoiler
some two episodes before it’s even revealed that they like each other, and then even later THEY are the people that sell their house (with a pool) that the poodles end up buying instead of Bluey’s house, because Winton’s dad moves out of his house to live with the other mom!
It’s such a good show.
No way I’m letting my kid watch copaganda
So what have deadpool
You guys been futurama
Watching AEW
I’ve been trying to carefully navigate this. Got her into Totoro when she was really young, like 20 months. Then a little after 2 we started watching Spirited Away. She loves them. I can’t always control what she watches but I’m gonna do my best to imbue some of my tastes into her.
Try treating it as family time. Like i know they say minimize screen time but cuddles and time with family makes good memories.
We have “family film nights”. We all have dinner together, then get out some beanbags, on the floor. We then all watch a film together, cuddled up on the beanbags.
The films are ones our daughter hasn’t seen, and can often push her boundaries. E.g. we watched “Monsters Inc” together. She was a little bit scared, but with mummy and daddy there, she loved it.
It’s definitely one for building memories together. We are too often distracted, even when present. Having dedicated family time makes a huge difference.
Oh, and she also doesn’t watch much paw patrol, even when around friends. Apparently “Daddy doesn’t like it” is quite enough to put her off it. A classic “respect over fear” situational win for me.
On a side note. The screen time correlation goes away, when you correct for the child’s parenting and lifestyle situation. It’s not “screens are bad” but that kids in worse situations watch more TV, etc. The causation is backwards.
The main characters’ age in Ghibli movies give you an idea of the minimum age of the audience… So Ponyo and Totoro are for young kids, Spirited Away isn’t… Grave of the fireflies is the exception, no one is ever ready for that…
I watched Grave of the Fireflies and couldn’t shake the feeling of “half the problems he’s facing are his own fault, and his little sister is being dragged down with him”
I tried the same thing. I had my daughter watch Spirited Away when she was maybe 6. It traumatized her. She was scared of us turning into pigs and being left alone.
