To be totally annoyed that Waybuloo does not use proper sentance construction.

Cheebies and Piplings do Yogo!

Who bumps a nearly fifteen year old thread? 😂

PIPLINGS! IT IS PIPLINGS!!!

I LOVE waybaloo. If my baby wakes in the night and i stick it on iplayer on my iphone she will stop crying and slowly drift back off to sleep for me for another 20 mins or so ....

I also love in the night garden. If she takes a tumble and I sing upsy daisys song it prevents tears every time!

I think the imagination that goes into those two programmes is wonderful, love them, love them.

my oh doesn't like the fact that they speak about themselves in the third person, I often wonder is there a reason for this?

There is a world of difference between 'imprinting' which is the necessary interraction of humans face to face as part of language acquisition (cf the cases of kids who don't successfully acquire language through watching TV and not talking to anyone) and 'sound games' which are an integral part of developing language. The latter has been around for as long as nursery rhymes (incey wincey spider; nick, knack, paddywhack etc) and shows such as Teletubbies, Waybuloo etc just use that in a 'modern' way.

Through exposure to the different sounds, rhythms and playing with sounds children are increasing their exposure to language and para-linguistic features such as melody, intonation as well as language specific phoneme groups. Whilst children get exposure to this through their own language games and interraction with others there's also not much harm in 20 mins once a day of it on TV either in my own view.

Re the point about watching TV and fluency in Dutch children etc I think that comes from them having a core basic level of English and then they do begin to 'absorb' more through watching TV. My colloquial German improved massively through watching TV when I moved over there and before I'd settled in and made friends - it's an easy way to pick up language as you have the visual cues to help you get context/sense but you do have to have a core level of understanding for that to work I suspect.

That's interesting, mauwmauw, because in her book Toxic Childhood, the author Sue Palmer cites a case where a hearing child of two profoundly deaf adults was exposed to TV very early on specifically so he would pick up the language at the same time as his peers. It didn't work and by the time he was speaking, at three (progress apparently very slow), it happened because by then he'd been exposed to more adults who spoke to him face to face. Same reason why TV directly targetted at very young babies doesn't seem to work, because children don't link speech and the face on the screen together, or little animated speaking characters which have nothing to do with what they've ever seen before make the speech irrelevant, or something like that...I've never read a good thing about TV programmes for babies outside of advertising.
However, it strikes a contrast with the fact that most Dutch/Belgian children are practically fluent in English by their early teens because of dubbed TV...I wonder if it's more about since how long you've watched TV or just the age of the child...probably the latter.
Not a v. well structured post.

You guys are aware this is a really old thread that has been bumped my a spammer/horrid troll!?

Looks like it may not be the time to bring back The Clangers, then

In this house Waybuloo is the Holy Grail, so therefore is much loved by the 16 month old and the adults alike. My DD has loved it since she was about 7 months and would only settle and have her bottle if it was on, nothing else would do! She also loves Something Special and will touch her nose to send the spotty bag (so cute).

I personally hate Zingzillas (I can't quite explain why), extremely annoying but love Timmy Time, Chuggington, Octonauts, Small Potatoes.
Agree with the other posters who said that they aren't bother by the sentence construction as at the moment DD only speaks 2 word sentences anyway.

I would like to throw in something which makes me less concerned about the evils of TV. A few years ago I asked my darling mother how I learnt to speak English as she and my father have only ever spoke to me in Chinese. She told me that I had learnt it from watching TV, as I could speak English before nursery. I was one of those TV obsessed children and knew how to switch it on.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with my language skills or education level.

Why do you let your kid watch TV anyway?

If you stick your child in front of the TV all day, I'm sure it would negatively affect language acquisition. But you can hardly blame the BBC for poor parenting.

Ds loves waybulloo doesn't bother me either way. I do think though if you try to apply adult standards to children's program's you could take offence to any of them!

That said when rastamouse or third and bird come on I quickly reach for the tv control!

don't think he created it - but certainly directed it.

He's a lovely man, and his wife is too, and their DS's are absolutely adorable.

For anyone whose childre/cheebies like yoga/yogo, try your local 99p store - I got a Yogabugs video there and DD loves it.

I agree with the poster who said its fun to be creative with language - it really is - and thats how we have ended up with a houseful of pecuters, bouncealines and ponycorns

Mayor - I agree!

I love Something Special and Show Me Show Me. I HATE HATE HATE 64 Zoo lane, bloody 3rd and bloody bird and Lazytown.

I like the yoga and general attitude on Waybuloo but they really need to start using real words. ITNG isn't so bad because they don't just replace normal words with nonsense and the narrator at least talks sense.

Green Balloon Club annoys me for some reason, as does I Can Cook and Big Cook Little Cook, but I like the premise of the programmes so don't mind them.

Alex and Cerrie are good, but I want to slap them during the bedtime song as they get that horrible smug look on their faces.

That is Butterpies opinion of CBeebies. Take note :D

what i want to know is does badly drawn boy know that his music is being ripped off bigtime here?

Watching Waybuloo - Peeka!!!

Wr are a Mr Tumble family here - DS2 and DD love it

oh my. glad it was deleted i think, except now i'm worrying who the op was lol.

on the subject of children's tv though - please tell me 'king stupid has been wiped from the face of the earth?