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AIBU?

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Original poster

cbeebies is full of shit...

69 replies

syne · 26/05/2015 22:09

AIBU to think that cbeebies bedtime hour is wildly optimistic in it's timeslot and that it can't just be my bundle of joy that is still decidedly not in bed!

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WorldsBiggestGrotbag · 27/05/2015 12:39

brightnearly I don't think half an hour of TV a day does them a huge amount of harm, do you?

slightlyconfused85 · 27/05/2015 14:18

Brightearly that's very judgey! Don't think a small amount of TV is the end of the world is it?!

run2 · 27/05/2015 14:29

Oh come on it was only a matter of time! Things were far too lighthearted.

toomuchtooold · 27/05/2015 14:41

I struggle to get mine to go for a bath after the bedtime story, and we live abroad where we're one hour ahead! It goes off air at 8pm here!

toomuchtooold · 27/05/2015 14:46

Hey also are mine the only ones that will ask for the same episode of the same show over and over? They watched the same one episode of Topsy and Tim like 4 times yesterday. I hate Topsy and Tim, I like to think I wish my kids were that polite but actually I would respect them slightly less if they were...

SuffragetteCity · 27/05/2015 14:58

Aww, I feel all nostalgic now! My DS1's bedtime routine was set by Cbeebies, until DS2 came along. They're 8 and 5 now and Cbeebies is just a distant memory!

christmasmum · 27/05/2015 15:01

What's really annoying is that CITV finishes at 6 - 6???

TipsyandT0m · 27/05/2015 15:03

I hate Topsy and Tim too toomuch. DS currently has "New House" on over and over again
They are so nice and sweet it is annoying.

crazykat · 27/05/2015 15:19

I banned cbeebies when the dcs started demanding lunch as soon as the bloody stupid lunchtime song came on. I had a baby and couldn't always have lunch ready at the same time every day and they'd drive me nuts pestering and whining as soon as they heard the song.

There were a fair few times they'd played a repeat of a show and the lunchtime song came on at 10am or 2pm so they'd demand lunch "coz the lunch song is on mummy".

Varya · 27/05/2015 15:27

Charlie & Lola, Abney & Teal before the bedtime hour seem popular with our toddler.

JimmyCorkhill · 27/05/2015 17:48

I hate Topsy and Tim, I like to think I wish my kids were that polite but actually I would respect them slightly less if they were...

TipsyandT0m · 27/05/2015 21:51

As for Great Aunt Lizzie, you'd think she would have both Charlotte and Elliot over so mum can have a break. Maybe for dinner or overnight, rather than one bloody cup of tea. They don't even get a biscuit with it. -Too invested-

Cherrypi · 27/05/2015 22:10

Topsy's fringe is a wig.

thefourgp · 27/05/2015 22:35

Loving the comments on this post. I'm not the only one who hates in the night garden. Whoever thought that program up was taking serious amounts of drugs. Lol. It's so bloody boring and teaches them nothing.

SycamoreMum · 27/05/2015 22:51

I thought it was just me! As soon as that annoying Moosh Mogo and ThatOtherOne lady sings, I scoop DD up and throw her in the bathroom (also just cant stand that lady and her fucking awful singing).

Bedtime hour I scoff at because DD isn't going bed for ages yet . I just switch to Emmerdale and wait for her to stop whizzing around the living room.

Don't judge me, I'm exhausted.

ouryve · 27/05/2015 22:56

From the number of people I know who have 7 or 8 year olds in bed around 6:30, I'd suggest YABU.

Doesn't and never did work for mine, though. DS1 used to chill out to the post 8pm retro stuff on Nick Jr, a decade ago when he was a toddler. He watched 24 hours in A&E, tonight, but he is 11.5, now!

WienerDiva · 27/05/2015 22:58

Thefour, it's the same weirdos that invented Tellytubbies and Abney and Teal, and maybe the TwirlyWoos!

LittleBearPad · 27/05/2015 23:12

It was the cue for bedtime to begin pre-DC2. Currently there's no plan, just survival.

However I have sodding 'what's on your plate' going round my head. It made me feel judged whenever that came on and lunch wasa distant dream.

Goldenbear · 27/05/2015 23:34

My daughter loves the Twirlywoos, she still likes Telletubbies and she's 4! She's a young 4 though and is still at nursery. I'm sure she'll hate it when she starts school. I do think the BBC has a better quality of preschool programmes though. I don't like her watching all the American crap - it's much more wholesome and unimaginative.

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