Also, why?
Banned shows:
- Paw Patrol - Seems soulless, I haven’t watched much, but there seems something very wrong about it. Intuitively, I feel like my kid shouldn’t watch it (though, I can could be convinced I’m wrong, if I am)
- Cocomelon - objectively soulless - don’t try to convince me that this show is anything but toddler crack.
Approved:
- Sesame Street
- Bluey
Both of the above shows seem to me like they are made with care and have the best interests to teaching children good morals and language skills.
We ban peppa pig as it poem treats the dad as stupid.
Paw patrok, we allow but it’s propaganda, however mostly the message for kids is good. Bravery, coooerarion, environment.
Bluey is a favorite for kids and adults.
Gravity falls, owl house and Steven universe are fun and inckusive but the kids aren’t mad for them.
When okder, avatar and ninjago are fine but as others said, they portray viokence.
Hey duggie is good for little kids rather than cocomelon. Come to think of it most of the bbc stuff is good.
One show that we always encouraged our kids (especially our youngest, who just couldn’t get enough) to watch was Number Blocks. Honestly I feel like that show is the number 1 reason he does so well in math today.
I know I am late to the original conversation but that show awakened my children to numbers and math so much so they stole the calculator out of my office to play with at bedtime.
My kids are older now but when they were young they liked:
Puffin Rock (Netflix in the US) - wholesome, family looking out for each other
Sarah and Duck (Amazon) - super low conflict, cute, very mild
Octonauts (Netflix I think?) - science-y adventure
We tried to get them into various PBS shows also. Daniel Tiger was okay, but now Bluey puts it to shame. They liked Dora for a while. We liked Molly of Denali but my husband is from Alaska so he had a soft spot for it. The older PBS shows are extremely formulaic which is attractive for a toddler but not for the parents.
We didn’t get Paw Patrol but it was kind of the forbidden fruit because of that, and whenever we were on vacation and the tv had cable, they wanted to watch it. But they also realized pretty fast that it was kind of boring. We stayed away from Peppa and Calliou because of what I’d read on Reddit.
This makes it sound like my kids watched a lot of tv! Probably too much to be honest but not as much as I’m making it sound.
My kids are much older now, but we always supported them watching Dinosaur Train, in which the clearly independently wealthy Pteranodon family with their adopted son (a t-rex) go on a mysteriously large number of vacations via a maybe-magical train to visit other dinosaurs in various climates and time periods.
We also liked PBS’s Word Girl, which mixes superpowers and grammar with kind of a Rocky and Bullwinkle style humor.
We loathed Octonauts and especially Littlest Pet Shop, both of which, sadly, my kids really enjoyed.
I would recommend Mike the Knight and the Cat In The Hat Knows A Lot About That. Pikwik Pack, and Grizzy & the Lemmings
