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We have two young kids, and have friends and family who are enamored with Bluey. Every time we're over they put it on because they need us to like it too. I've seen so many episodes because everyone puts it on when we're over and I just... don't... get it. My children's attention isn't captured by it, and neither my wife nor I enjoy it.

The kids in the show are just kind of annoying, needy and of out of control. Things I don't want my kids to emulate. The parents feed into it and treat the behavior like it's ok. I also don't feel like the stories have particularly great takeaways for kids most of the time.

It's a minor gripe but I really find the staccato melodica theme song full of awkward pauses to be quite grating.

Everyone is free to like what they like. You are free to love Bluey. I just wish people would stop trying to make us like it, and stop making us watch it.

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May be down to parenting style indeed.

> kind of annoying, needy and of out of control. […] The parents feed into it and treat the behavior like it's ok.

Not how I would characterize it.

either you've seen the wrong episodes over and over, or you're just not approaching it with any sort of an open mind. even in the opening song you don't like the "staccato melodica" theme song, its just a small snippet of a longer song their musical director composed that the creator decided to snip down and turn into a game of musical statues...its just supposed to be fun!

and there are episodes like Cricket where it is nothing but kids behaving ideally and overcoming real challenges

So I pulled up Cricket just now and watched through it, as I'd seen it mentioned a few times in here. I can see why someone would enjoy that particular episode. It's lighthearted and sappy.

However, a sizable portion of the episodes short runtime is Rusty smashing a cricket ball against the side of his parents house, visibly damaging the siding, with zero on-screen repercussions. That's exactly the sort of thing I don't want my child emulating, and the show makes it seem like it's an ok behavior.

Children copy things they see. If you're going to show a child doing something they shouldn't it needs to be at the very least shown in a negative light.

All the show needed to do was have the final couple seconds of the episode be his mom standing next to the damage yelling "Rusty!", it would have made for a good comedic closer and shown kids that it's a problem.

Maybe you are just unfamiliar with Australian customs and mores

What should Rusty be doing instead? The point is that he needed that siding because he didn't have a partner to hit the ball back, and his parents know this, and they support his dream. Rusty's mom isn't yelling at him for whacking the ball off the siding because he's allowed.

Houses are meant to be lived in. Sometimes we spend from them to achieve other goals.

> The kids in the show are just kind of annoying, needy and of out of control. Things I don't want my kids to emulate. The parents feed into it and treat the behavior like it's ok. I also don't feel like the stories have particularly great takeaways for kids most of the time.

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> Everyone is free to like what they like. You are free to love Bluey. I just wish people would stop trying to make us like it, and stop making us watch it.

Based on these comments, is it possible your friends are trying to give you a subtle hint about your own parenting?

The behavior is ok. What is acceptable varies from household to household.

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