I wasn't emotionally prepared for the Sleepytime episode of Bluey. What has unexpectedly made you cry recently?

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I mean, I know I'm tired because the baby's sleep is all out of whack, but honestly.

Crying into my morning cup of tea over a cartoon dog trying to sleep in her own bed all night is just soppy. Early night for me tonight I think.

It's not just me, is it?

Duggee Tree Badge - every time!

It's Rug Island for me. The ending - "What did she give you?" "Everything"

I genuinely think Sleepytime is the best bit of kids TV ever written.

With Sleepytime it’s the music too. But yes, love the mum as the sun. ‘I’m always here, even if you can’t see me, because I love you!’

Love Bluey!!

My gran used to have this and play it for us (don't really know why, my grandad outlived her by 10 years). It's lovely but so sad.

I put dc to bed last night and just wanted ten minutes of easy watching. I heard them giggling away to a new Bluey episode earlier so though I'd watch it! I was giggling and sobbing at the same time! Dds are 5 & 8 and the five year old often wakes during the night and tries to get into our bed, holds my hand as she falls back to sleep etc. All she can say is that, "I wake up and miss you, mummy".

I had forgotten all about that cartoon! I don't think I could watch it now!

I cried at Henry getting bricked into the tunnel in Thomas the tank engine, though I did find out I was pregnant a week later, which might explain it.

The Bluey episode called Camping. I surprised myself by sobbing at the very end 😭

My daughter also has a picture book with the lyrics of Louis Armstrong's What a Wonderful World as the words. It reminds me of a very dear family friend who died a few years back. I can't read the line "I see friends shaking hands, saying "how do you do?", they're really saying "I love you" " without my voice breaking and my eyes leaking.

I love Bluey!!! Baby race has me in tears every time.

I always cry at Baby Race! Surprised nobody has mentioned Tiny Baby yet, that really tugs at the heartstrings. That bit where she says 'you have to be the bravest you've ever ever been!' I well up just at the thought of it 😂😭

The Topsy and Tim episode Lovely Mossy gets me every time. And the opening sequence of Up

The Sleepytime episode made me ball my eyes out. And the same goes for the Tee and Mo song Go to Sleep 🥲

Oh Paper Dolls 😭 my toddler is into it at the moment so I’m reading it multiple times a day which is helpfully building up a tolerance. It’s made worse knowing it’s partly inspired by Julia Donaldson losing her son to suicide.

Paper Dolls by Julia Donaldson used to make me cry when I read it to my girls. I’ve read it so many times now I’m hardened to it but my girls still warn me when the snipper boy part is coming up as they think it’s the fact he snips up the dolls that makes me cry! It’s really the beautiful page where they’re going into the girls memory… ahhh so beautiful and so sad.

... What? I had no idea she lost her son. That's awful.

I'll be back to crying at it now.

Yes to this episode, Baby Race and the Camping episode. Also the one with the budgie who died is very sweet and really helped my little girl (3) when the Queen died…

That cartoon always has me sobbing, the seaside bit especially - I watch it on YouTube occasionally if I need a good cry . I don’t know if it’s the music or the ending !

When I put the kids (2&1y/o) down for their afternoon nap and plan to do loads of jobs but instead sit and watch their baby monitors 😂 knowing they'll never be this little again 😢

The Christmas special of Old Jack's Boat finished me, with Sailor Sue. And I always cry at Paper Dolls ("And he did." hit me so hard when I first read it.)

I also tear up at the end of Annie Rose is my Little Sister. Those long, hard days when my two were so little and demanding and we had those wholesome, peaceful moments reading the book, "because she's my little sister and I'm her brother. And we'll go on being that forever.. even until we're grown up.' 😌

This took me by surprise yesterday. I had no idea it happened and shows that parental care continues well into adulthood.

I was watching the 10 O'Clock news on the BBC last night and they were doing a piece on social care and there was this husband who is looking after his wife who has dementia (and I think Alzheimer's too) and they have been married over 40 years. He clearly loves his wife but her care is clearly taking a toll on him. He doesn't want to have to put her into a home and it would be very expensive to him (he quoted £1500 per week for her). He is exhausted looking after her and yet he wants to keep doing it because he loves her.

Their news story just broke my heart last night.

I was crying in the living room and my DD came in from the kitchen (as I thought I was quietly crying but clearly not) asking if I was ok.

That is what unexpectedly made me cry recently.

If you enjoy an ugly cry and have older kids then the final Bear in the Big Blue House. Sent it to my Dd and she was , “ffs mum, why would you do that?”
And Peepo.

The book 'The Christmas Day Kitten'. Loved it as a child but as an adult I cry.

There’s a Fireman Sam film and Sam is told that he can’t be a fireman anymore and it makes me cry. Being a fireman his his whole life!