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The dad is who you want to aspire to be when you see his relationship with his kids. Definitely sighup’d my idea of parenting after watching a few episodes

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I think it sets a high bar, which is ok because they also show the parents at low points without making them look pitiful or less worthy of love.

They also show them busy cleaning a lot, which is like half of parenthood at that age.

Yup. Makes me think of that episode where they were racing and Bandit just blatantly cheated to win. A low point for him, but only makes him more relatable.

Some times you need to use your adult skills to teach your kids how to cope! Some time you let them win, some times you bring down hellfire.

Absolutely.

Bandit is a fantastic role model and I have learned a lot from this pretend dog dad lol.

My father is deceased. I feel like a lot of the advice he would have given me, I picked up from watching Bluey.

In the Flatpak episode, he rolls his eyes and states, "I'm not taking advice from a cartoon dog!" The episode is mostly about how Bluey takes after the parents in a game where she's raising Bingo through adulthood while they also go from fishes through dinosaurs to modern humans, er, dogs.

This show is so good on so many levels.

The writing in that episode is insane when you consider how much they managed to pack into such a short run time. The entire evolution of life and the building of society complete with religion, the story a parent raising Bingo before seeing her head off as an adult and then dying, and also two parents fighting over cheap furniture assembly and then making up. It all happens in just a few minutes and much of the story will certainly go over the heads of many young children watching the episode, but it ends up being perfectly enjoyable to everyone anyway.

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