AIBU to mourn the passing of CBeebies in this house...

[MiscellaneousAssortment]

Oh how they grow... Sniff sniff, today was the day when DS has rejected CBeebies in favour of those cool and funky 'grown up' programs on CBBC.

I thought I'd get misty eyed when he starts Yr1 next week, but oh no, he can't even wait 7 days to grow up.

Waaahhhh! I love Cbeebies and it's soothing trippiness and gentle surreal ness.

I hate CBBC and it's high energy double meaning slap stick reality. Waaaahhhh.

Sorry I may be overly nostalgic [needs to apply starch to upper lip emoticon]

[clam]

Oh, this takes me back. I remember sitting down at 10.30am with a coffee ready to start watching The Tweenies. Then I realised both kids were out.
And now it's all Game of Thrones, Netflix and endless re-runs of Friends (them not me).

[ElviraCondomine]

Just wait until it's pigging Violetta.
The worst excesses of Disney, dubbed.
DD2 adores it.

[MiscellaneousAssortment]

One small choice for 5 yr old, one giant step for womankind...

Ds couldn't get to sleep and asked for a program on iplayer to distract himself from the scary monster he's determined will come in the night...

And he asked for (drum roll)... Sarah and Duck yay!

[Magicpaintbrush]

My 6 yr old daughter has abandoned cbeebies now that she has discovered Blue Peter on Cbbc and My Little Pony on Tinypop - she barely watches anything else but these two programmes, she is obssessed! .......But when she is all sleepy and snuggling her bibby it seems that nothing else will do but The Clangers on Cbeebies. I think they tend to revert back to 'baby programmes' when they want comforting.

[MiscellaneousAssortment]

The Clangers is amazing isn't it! We did get to watch this before the Big Change...

He did ask for Peter Rabbit tonight (yay! Punches air!), we do 1 program with milk before heading up to bed, story & music... (I know it's not the perfect routine to have screens so close to bedtime!)

Peter r was requested interestingly just after telling me he wanted to stop his night night milkie, as he's 'too grown up for that now mummy', and after saying that I watched his face just drop as he thought through what he'd just said! So I replied in a neutral tone of voice that 'yes he absolutely could do that and that's fine if he'd like to start doing that mummy can stop giving him his milkie no problem', and also in case he was wondering, I just mentioned in passing that 'I think a lot of children in his class still have comfort items and rituals, they just don't mention then at school'.

He didn't reply and I didn't push it but suddenly he was desperate to watch Peter rabbit. Then having watched it he asked what kind of things would his classmates still be doing at bedtime, and I thought maybe comfort blankets, favourite teddies, thumb sucking etc, and he announced that he'd be too old when he was 6, and 5 was fine :)

It must be hard growing up, so desperate to be a big boy and in so many ways super big and grown up, yet this endless forwards propulsion must feel unstoppable at times...

However, it looks like it's not going to be the straight swap I first feared, more a mix with CBeebies oldies being dragged out when tired, needing comfort...