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> Bluey is the best children's cartoon of this generation Bluey is the best children's cartoon _for adults_ of this generation. Our kids are about the same ag

> Bluey is the best children's cartoon of this generation Bluey is the best children's cartoon _for adults_ of this generation. Our kids are about the same age and age difference as Bluey/Bingo are portrayed, and I can't express how much relief it gives to watch it see your own life played out line for line. Some days, as a parent you wonder how (badly) you're doing, and Bluey takes some weight off as you realise (and talk to other parents about Bluey) that some things are just universal and you're possibly doing better than you think.

bombcar 1y ago
One of the things not talked (much) about is how families are much more isolated now - since the average person is from a two-child family, and has a two-child family, most of their peer group growing up and when they have kids is in the "same boat" so they don't really have insight and experience of what the youngest years brings. Even the basic idea of "kids like games, make things games" that permeates Bluey is likely unknown to many new parents.
- simgt 1y ago
  I completely missed your point, I think. Do you mean that the current generation of young parents didn't experience enough things being games as kids themselves?
  - alias_neo 1y ago
    My interpretation was that we haven't experienced it as adults; We may have experienced it as children, but my experience (maybe not everybody's) is that I don't remember enough about being a young child to necessarily know the best way to approach things with my own children, and we haven't necessarily seen how others do it. I'm also much older (a decade) than my parents were when they had their first child.
    - bombcar 1y ago
      Oh that decade; man you feel that in your bones when you're pushing 40+ and the parents of your kindergartener's friends are barely 25 ...
      - alias_neo 1y ago
        My wife tells me a story about a young lady in one of the baby groups who was looking for other mothers to get to know. She's a selfless woman my wife, and goes out of her way for anyone, but she felt bad that she just couldn't get a long with this young lady to the point where she'd exchange numbers and arrange to meet up for coffee or whatever; while the young lady was also feeling alienated from her childless friends. There were almost two decades between them and she just couldn't find anything to relate on and she felt really awkward; she still thinks about that occasionally and regrets not trying harder. I'm the voice of (un)reason and have to reign in her selflessness sometimes for her own wellbeing and had to convince her she had herself and a new born to take care of first and foremost.
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  - bombcar 1y ago
    My earliest memories, sketchy and faint, are around eight or so years old. By that time my youngest sibling was already out of diapers; I had literally zero experience with newborns and had changed ONE diaper in my life before the hospital shoved one in my arms and said "good luck, don't shake her." Larger families of yore, the eldest kids would be in their teens when the last baby was born; they would have living memory (and probably even were enlisted to help). And as others have mentioned, you don't really begin to meet the parents of your children's friends until they're old enough to have friends, which is usually daycare at the earliest; often school for many. You have to make an effort and action to join a "mom's group" these days; before local family, church, even the neighborhood would spontaneously be a "mom's group".
- alias_neo 1y ago
  Absolutely, it's one of those things where you're truly thrown in at the deep end, so to speak, with no guidance or experience (you likely remember little to nothing about your time as a child in those early years) and have to work it out. Nobody teaches you anything (besides some basic courses for new parents like NCT here in the UK) and there's really no-one to ask; your own parents likely did things very differently to how you would now, so you have to weigh any advice they can/do provide. The biggest help, I've found, on all sides, is talking to other parents; those of our children's friends, and we're quite friendly with a bunch of them having spend a lot of time talking to each other during COVID and meeting for the children's play-dates after. Many of them, like us have two children, with a similar age gap, their eldest is the same age as we met at our first children's births and they go through the same phases at roughly the same time. Sometimes you just need to ask, "is this normal", and they'll corroborate, and some times you just need to support them by confirming you have the same challenges.
wolrah 1y ago
> Bluey is the best children's cartoon _for adults_ of this generation. One of my regular hangouts often puts Bluey on one of their TVs and I know for a fact there have been multiple occasions where no one at the bar even has children but we're all sitting there drinking beers while watching the antics of a family of cartoon dogs.
- alias_neo 1y ago
  I will happily watch Bluey (as will my wife) if it happens to be on and the kids aren't around, I can't say that for any other cartoon they watch, even ones I can appreciate for the educational value they provide the children (our daughter loves Octonauts and learning and telling us all about sea creatures).
  - radiofreeeuropa 1y ago
    I can't think of another cartoon targeted at that young an audience that I'd even consider sitting down and watching a half-dozen episodes of without a kid around, but I can imagine doing that with Bluey. Like I've for-sure left it running for multiple episodes after the kids left the room, and enjoyed it. Older-audience stuff like Avatar: The Last Airbender or Justice League Unlimited, oh yeah, for sure, but something specifically aimed at lower-grades elementary school kids? Nope, can't think of another, not even nostalgia shows from my own childhood. I'd maybe do an episode just like "oh wow, remember this?" but not a session watch.
gopalv 1y ago
> Bluey takes some weight off as you realise (and talk to other parents about Bluey) that some things are just universal and you're possibly doing better than you think. No question, the I can't count the number of times I've sent the "Baby Race" to other parents who ask me "When did your kid start to talk?" We watch the Bluey bike whenever the kids say "I can't do it!" or the Dad can't draw episode. Or the curry quest, when I had to travel for work (after all the pandemic "no work travel"). Bluey's dad is an inspiration, like the puppets episode is so funny & I keep saying "Bauxite" in random times without context.
- jamiek88 1y ago
  I’m like that with the ‘unicourse’ puppet he has. Randomly saying ‘aaaaaaand whyshouldicare?’ tickles me!
homefree 1y ago
That's one criticism I've heard about it actually, but not sure how much it's actually true. Basically that people love Bluey because it appeals more to adults, but that may make it not as good as other shows for child development (which adults might find boring). I don't know that I buy that though, I think the shows that claim they're for child development but are insufferable to adults would be better of just skipped entirely, probably those skills are better learned from real life play and interaction than tv. Of course there's also the mad science of cocomelon and their 'distractatron' https://www.readtrung.com/p/why-i-love-bluey-and-hate-cocomelon https://www.readtrung.com/p/why-i-love-bluey-and-hate-cocome... - nothing can be worse than that.

bombcar 1y ago

One of the things not talked (much) about is how families are much more isolated now - since the average person is from a two-child family, and has a two-child family, most of their peer group growing up and when they have kids is in the "same boat" so they don't really have insight and experience of what the youngest years brings. Even the basic idea of "kids like games, make things games" that permeates Bluey is likely unknown to many new parents.

simgt 1y ago
I completely missed your point, I think. Do you mean that the current generation of young parents didn't experience enough things being games as kids themselves?
- alias_neo 1y ago
  My interpretation was that we haven't experienced it as adults; We may have experienced it as children, but my experience (maybe not everybody's) is that I don't remember enough about being a young child to necessarily know the best way to approach things with my own children, and we haven't necessarily seen how others do it. I'm also much older (a decade) than my parents were when they had their first child.
  - bombcar 1y ago
    Oh that decade; man you feel that in your bones when you're pushing 40+ and the parents of your kindergartener's friends are barely 25 ...
    - alias_neo 1y ago
      My wife tells me a story about a young lady in one of the baby groups who was looking for other mothers to get to know. She's a selfless woman my wife, and goes out of her way for anyone, but she felt bad that she just couldn't get a long with this young lady to the point where she'd exchange numbers and arrange to meet up for coffee or whatever; while the young lady was also feeling alienated from her childless friends. There were almost two decades between them and she just couldn't find anything to relate on and she felt really awkward; she still thinks about that occasionally and regrets not trying harder. I'm the voice of (un)reason and have to reign in her selflessness sometimes for her own wellbeing and had to convince her she had herself and a new born to take care of first and foremost.
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- bombcar 1y ago
  My earliest memories, sketchy and faint, are around eight or so years old. By that time my youngest sibling was already out of diapers; I had literally zero experience with newborns and had changed ONE diaper in my life before the hospital shoved one in my arms and said "good luck, don't shake her." Larger families of yore, the eldest kids would be in their teens when the last baby was born; they would have living memory (and probably even were enlisted to help). And as others have mentioned, you don't really begin to meet the parents of your children's friends until they're old enough to have friends, which is usually daycare at the earliest; often school for many. You have to make an effort and action to join a "mom's group" these days; before local family, church, even the neighborhood would spontaneously be a "mom's group".
alias_neo 1y ago
Absolutely, it's one of those things where you're truly thrown in at the deep end, so to speak, with no guidance or experience (you likely remember little to nothing about your time as a child in those early years) and have to work it out. Nobody teaches you anything (besides some basic courses for new parents like NCT here in the UK) and there's really no-one to ask; your own parents likely did things very differently to how you would now, so you have to weigh any advice they can/do provide. The biggest help, I've found, on all sides, is talking to other parents; those of our children's friends, and we're quite friendly with a bunch of them having spend a lot of time talking to each other during COVID and meeting for the children's play-dates after. Many of them, like us have two children, with a similar age gap, their eldest is the same age as we met at our first children's births and they go through the same phases at roughly the same time. Sometimes you just need to ask, "is this normal", and they'll corroborate, and some times you just need to support them by confirming you have the same challenges.

wolrah 1y ago

> Bluey is the best children's cartoon _for adults_ of this generation. One of my regular hangouts often puts Bluey on one of their TVs and I know for a fact there have been multiple occasions where no one at the bar even has children but we're all sitting there drinking beers while watching the antics of a family of cartoon dogs.

alias_neo 1y ago
I will happily watch Bluey (as will my wife) if it happens to be on and the kids aren't around, I can't say that for any other cartoon they watch, even ones I can appreciate for the educational value they provide the children (our daughter loves Octonauts and learning and telling us all about sea creatures).
- radiofreeeuropa 1y ago
  I can't think of another cartoon targeted at that young an audience that I'd even consider sitting down and watching a half-dozen episodes of without a kid around, but I can imagine doing that with Bluey. Like I've for-sure left it running for multiple episodes after the kids left the room, and enjoyed it. Older-audience stuff like Avatar: The Last Airbender or Justice League Unlimited, oh yeah, for sure, but something specifically aimed at lower-grades elementary school kids? Nope, can't think of another, not even nostalgia shows from my own childhood. I'd maybe do an episode just like "oh wow, remember this?" but not a session watch.

gopalv 1y ago

> Bluey takes some weight off as you realise (and talk to other parents about Bluey) that some things are just universal and you're possibly doing better than you think. No question, the I can't count the number of times I've sent the "Baby Race" to other parents who ask me "When did your kid start to talk?" We watch the Bluey bike whenever the kids say "I can't do it!" or the Dad can't draw episode. Or the curry quest, when I had to travel for work (after all the pandemic "no work travel"). Bluey's dad is an inspiration, like the puppets episode is so funny & I keep saying "Bauxite" in random times without context.

jamiek88 1y ago
I’m like that with the ‘unicourse’ puppet he has. Randomly saying ‘aaaaaaand whyshouldicare?’ tickles me!

homefree 1y ago

That's one criticism I've heard about it actually, but not sure how much it's actually true. Basically that people love Bluey because it appeals more to adults, but that may make it not as good as other shows for child development (which adults might find boring). I don't know that I buy that though, I think the shows that claim they're for child development but are insufferable to adults would be better of just skipped entirely, probably those skills are better learned from real life play and interaction than tv. Of course there's also the mad science of cocomelon and their 'distractatron' https://www.readtrung.com/p/why-i-love-bluey-and-hate-cocomelon https://www.readtrung.com/p/why-i-love-bluey-and-hate-cocome... - nothing can be worse than that.