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@regberadaisy: Barbie on Netflix, OMG this is the WORST show on, I caught her watching it on the iPad one time and I'm like what is this garbage, I wish there was a way to "remove" shows from Netflix so she can't see the icon.

Otherwise we don't watch Peppa Pig in our house, the whiney drives me bonkers.

@regberadaisy: my baby isn't old enough for TV (10 wks) but this reminds me of a conversation I had with a child I worked with last year (I was a school therapist). He was in pre-K and I asked him what one of his favorite things was to do and he said "watch Walking Dead with my 'daddy'." ("Daddy" was mom's boyfriend at the time).

So, one vote for Walking Dead.

DS (2) hasn't taken much to screen time in general so the only thing I restrict him from watching is violent movies/shows DH and I watch. He'll glance at the tv once in awhile and if the action is enough to capture his attention, he'll start repeating it. No bueno!

@regberadaisy: he was sent to me for behavioral issues he would make crazy monster noises (related to the show I am guessing) in class and threw crazy tantrums/used bad language. it all started to make sense when I got the home life scoop. More than half the kids I worked with (all between ages 4-6) said "Chucky" was one of their favorite movies too, and all had nightmares regularly. Go figure. Needless to say, most kids I worked with did not have adequate adult supervision.

@regberadaisy: wait - whats wrong with Barbie?? My 4.5 yr old loves the Barbie movies - I think they are cute too - lots of singing and dancing.

@mrbee: never watched TV shows, just movies - are they different?

Barbie and the Secret Door
Barbie a Fairy Secret

and we have Barbie - Rockin Royals on preorder

@mrbee: ah ok, the movies are cartoons

@regberadaisy: I also can't stand Life in the Dreamhouse, but come on now. Clueless is an awesome movie!

@regberadaisy @littlebug: what's Caillou about and what's the story on avoiding it?

Caillou, because he's so whiny.

And the other day my 2.5 yr old son was watching this Hanna Barbera Godzilla cartoon from the 70s or early 80s - total fail.

No Caillou, no Toopy & Binoo, no My Little Pony (the old ones are OK, the new ones look weird to me).

@dagret: Um, my 2.5yo watches He-man on Amazon Prime. Now every stick he picks up is a sword and gives him "power of the sword!" I can't even tell you how many times he's tried to turn our cat into Battlecat. Thanks, Hubs.

@regberadaisy: It's ridiculous. My husband saved all his He-man action figures and has been giving them to D for Christmas/birthdays, one shoe box at a time. The other night I found myself desperately searching for toddler He-man costumes on ebay because of COURSE he wants to be He-man for Halloween!

He has the YouTube kids app on my iPad that he prefers to the netflix and pbs kids app. But I definitely have to monitor that, because while there aren't any bad shows per se (thanks to it being a kids app), some are really creepy or just downright bizarre and I ask him to change the show.

I don't let him watch spongebob (which he fought me on for awhile because I found out his old daycare provider used to let him watch it ). I can't think of any others off the top of my head that he's tried to watch and I said no.

@littlebug: Haha love that you know this!!

She can watch any kids' show she wants. Mostly it's Paw Patrol, which is just fine with us. I don't love Caillou but she likes it and has learned a lot actually from it. We only really limit the amount of time she spends watching shows.