Mom bans kids from watching Bluey because it sends message that naughtiness is funny

As your little ones get older, it’s up to you to decide which TV shows they can and can’t use up all their screen time on.Many are drawing the line at Peppa Pig.But, for some, it’s Bluey.Michelle Barrow, on social media under her band’s name, Mama Nous, has taken to Instagram this week with her husband, sharing an update on her household’s ban on the show Bluey.Now three weeks into the ban, Michelle said she’s noticed some drastic changes in the behavior of her twin boys, saying that Bluey was causing them to have tantrums, and push boundaries.“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 specifically 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 includes positive behaviours and encourages good morals, the pair said their children weren’t receptive to this, adding 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.”It turns out, the couple weren’t alone in their beliefs, with a number of commenters sharing their own stories of the episodes simply being too much.“Literally episode 2: the dad is saying ‘no’ during ‘hospital’ play and the kids are jabbing him roughly repeatedly and ...