Over child and cartoons?

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I need to know if I'm being unreasonable. Since I was pregnant I said to my OH I did not want our DD watching cbeebies etc. It's not so much the cartoons it's the adverts between them that just try to get your kid to want everything. DSD is obsessed with YouTube opening toys and wants everything. If cbbs is on TV every advert she turns round and says I want that I want that. I know it's just normal but I hate how youtubers and tv dictate what your kids want to buy.
I don't mind if she watches films and cartoons just not the ones with the constant advertising of toys. I absolutely hate the youtube videos that DSD watches and I think they brain wash kids. So I went for a shower the other day, a very rare one and came out and DP had DD Infront of the TV with cbbees. He just laughed and said it would need to be good cop bad cop. Am I being unreasonable? Should I just give in and let her watch it? I just want her to decide what she likes and not be told what to like by YouTubers and adverts. Girls must like pink and princesses etc. Should I just give up now ?

You sound like a barrel of laughs.

Cbeebie doesn't have adverts on it by the way

The YouTube stuff is mind numbingly awful.
It's not clever, funny or educational and must kill a zillion brain cells on each watch.

Whilst I don't like everything on CBeebies (can be a bit patronising and 'worthy',) much of it is great.

Maybe you should watch it before judging? (Hey Duggee, Sarah and Duck and Something Special highly recommended)

I had adverts but just have TV on demand, Netflix or Disney+ mostly in our house.

As PPs have said, CBeebies is mostly great. (Not twatty Bing though!) I learned a lot from some of the science programmes. DD1(6) still loves Sarah and Duck.

My DD loves the YouTube crap but when she asks for stuff, I simply say no or to put it on her present list. She is not demanding or spoilt because we haven’t allowed her to be. Blame the parenting not the video for your DSD’s inability to appreciate toys.

Cbeebies us great. Mine also used to watch Milkshake on channel 5 which did have adverts. We talked about them and my line was to think of their favourite toys, and notice that those were never advertised because good toys didn't need advertising - people knew about them from recommendations, playing with them at friends'houses or nursery etc. So if they saw an ad fir something, that meant that it probably wasn't good enough to be something they'd want without without having to be persuaded.

Cbeebies only in this house - it's worth the licence fee on its own in my opinion. You see a wider range of people on Cbeebies than on adult TV. We might watch the odd thing on Netflix/Amazon but we specifically choose and put it on. DD thinks Peppa Pig is a book character and has no idea there's a cartoon. You get pester power every where though - I'm still annoyed about getting robbed for £5 buying a Thomas magazine because she wanted the train on the front.

@Disappointedkoala

I feel your pain. DD loves a magazine with some plastic crap on the front.

Those magazines are the devil

So does you dh have any say or is just you dictating what happens?

Cbbebies does not have ads but when ds saw ads and asked for something we just said no.

I know that is not used much these days but if used often enough it usually works

Kids will always find a way to ask for stuff - my DS has decided that he wants an 'extending arm thingy' that he's seen on Minions. I don't even know if one exists.

As PP have said, learning that you can't get everything you want is an important life lesson.

I love this time of year because I can firmly adopt the lines:
“Oh wow do you want that? - Shall we ask for that for Christmas? Great idea we’ll make note”

Pick your battles, OP.

Cbeebies is not your hill to die on.

Just turn the telly off when you're at home.

My daughter wants everything she sees, but it doesn't mean she gets it! You go through life being advertised to and told what to buy - do you buy everything you see? No.
It's a good life lesson to learn that you don't get everything you want. Plus, they've usually forgotten about it in the next hour!
We watch a lot of CBeebies, but it's nice to mix it up sometimes and the may have a bit of Milkshake or LittleBe some mornings.

Mine are too old for cbeebies now, but i miss it! Its lovely
Also love Peppa pig (although it is on Channel 5 and nick Jnr so is full of adverts) and Ben and Holly, they are beautiful really and even funny for adults. You can always download them so there are no adverts.

I do know what you mean about the adverts, Mine used to sit there going "i want that, I want that", but you just say no or we will add it to the christmas list. I do struggle more with youtube, all the kids tv is carefully regulated, as are the adverts on tv. Youtube is a bit more of a free for all with regulators playing catch up.
Some of the unboxing and things like skylander dad, Ryans world content on there makes me uneasy, children don't recognise them as adverts but they are.

A perfect opportunity to teach your child that ‘want don’t get’ if she starts asking for everything she sees (apart from the things you surprise her with on her birthday and at Christmas) on the adverts then isn’t it? YABU.