Mom bans kids from watching Bluey because it…
As your little ones become old, it’s up to you to resolve which TV exhibits they will and can’t use up all their screen time on.
Many are drawing the road at Peppa Pig. But, for some, it’s Bluey.
“It was making them think that naughtiness is funny”
Michelle Barrow, on social media under her band’s identify, Mama Nous, has taken to Instagram this week with her husband, sharing an update on her family’s ban on the show Bluey.
Now three weeks into the ban, Michelle said she’s observed some drastic adjustments in the habits of her twin boys, saying that Bluey was inflicting them to have tantrums, and push boundaries.
A mother took to social media to clarify why the show Bluey is banned in their home. ©Disney+/Courtesy Everett Collection
Michelle Barrow and her husband say the family’s ban on Bluey is because her kids would throw “immediate tantrums when the show… is over.” mama_nous/Instagram
“It typically starts with them just constantly pushing boundaries, or immediate tantrums when the show… is over,” her husband said.
Michelle added that the episode format was particularly to blame.
“We don’t see that so much with slower paced shows, but also just longer shows,” she said.
“It didn’t matter with Bluey how much we would set expectations of ‘This is how many episodes we’re going to watch’. It’s something about that eight-minute format where they’re just like ‘More, more, just one more’.”
Though each episode contains optimistic behaviours and encourages good morals, the pair said their kids weren’t receptive to this, including that they rejected claims it was a low-stimulation show.
“I think the biggest piece that I started to notice after we took a break from it was the ways in which it was making them think that naughtiness is funny, and that pushing boundaries is a joke,” she said.
“There’s not a lot of conflict resolution in an eight-minute episode, and I know that each one wraps up with a moral, but at least for our kids, I feel like they weren’t getting to that moral well,” Barrow said. ©Disney+/Courtesy Everett Collection
“There’s not a lot of conflict resolution in an eight-minute episode, and I know that each one wraps up with a moral, but at least for our kids, I feel like they weren’t getting to that moral well.”
“The episodes are too short and seem like cocaine”
It seems, the couple weren’t alone in their beliefs, with a quantity of commenters sharing their own tales of the episodes merely being an excessive amount of.
“Literally episode 2: the dad is saying ‘no’ during ‘hospital’ play and the kids are jabbing him roughly repeatedly and laughing. If anyone says ‘no’ in our family that has to be a hard stop. I’m raising two boys – I don’t play about disrespecting ‘no’. We never turned it on again,” one particular person said.
“We had to send Bluey on vacation multiple times. The episodes are too short and seem like cocaine to our kids. Just one more bump!” another associated.
“Some of the episodes are lovely and low energy – Rain, Sleepy Time, the Creek – but I agree that some of them are too much for our kids,” said a third.
“I actually thought this was a joke!”
But, the naysayers have been actually in the minority, with Bluey-loving mother and father flooding to the feedback to sing the show’s praises.
Others praised the show. “Bluey to our family feels slow paced and funny with a good message. I also love how much it brings the parents into the show,” one particular person said in the feedback. ©Disney+/Courtesy Everett Collection
“I actually thought this was a joke to begin with! I feel the opposite. Bluey to our family feels slow paced and funny with a good message. I also love how much it brings the parents into the show – you rarely see parent characters playing with the children in such an imaginative, kind way,” said one particular person.
“I love Bluey, the messages, the authenticity and the playfulness. It’s one of the best things on television for children, [in my opinion],” another agreed.
Others prompt the disconnect was merely a cultural distinction, including that for Aussies, this form of ‘cheeky’ behaviour is totally regular.
“Yeah nah, Bluey is an amazing show, a pretty on point portrayal of a normal Aussie family. It teaches morals and values of a good family, kids are meant to push boundaries and to feel comfortable doing that. Cheekiness is a part of Aussie culture, literally everyone is taking the piss with everyone all the time. So maybe that just doesn’t gel with you guys,” one commenter prompt.
“I think there’s also a HUGE difference between Australian culture and American culture which means, from an American perspective, some things will hit differently. I also think Bluey’s target families are ones with cheeky kids, irreverent dads, mums trying to find the right balance, etc. The delivery is important because these slightly chaotic, funny, and what we would call ‘larrikin’ families aren’t picture perfect. In Australia, a LOT of the American shows are often seen as way too ‘twee’ or saccharine and so if you’re the type of family who watches together this makes Australian parents lose their minds.”
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