Bluey. The Beach. Awful parenting

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So I love Chilli and Bandit as much has the next parent but aibu to think you don't let a 6 yo walk along a beach along the shore alone, even if it's to get to a parent they can just about see?
Plus, Chilli clearly wants some alone time but instead of respecting that, he allows Bluey to go off alone to catch her up. No dude, leave her in peace.

I think they're generally good but indulgent parents but this one annoys me. And of course it's one of the few they've also made into a book!!

I don't think the beach is as big as Bluey imagines it to be, what a 6yo imagines as a long way usually isn't all that long. As for walking alone, it depends on the beach. The beach next to my house is long, straight, and usually pretty empty so I'd be fine with my young DC walking from where I am to where DH is, they know not to go in the water and I can check where they are with one glance as there are no obstructions.

But there a point where she loses the footprints and she can't see mom who has her back to her and doesn't know she's coming and dad is a dot and playing with Bingo. I worry about crab bites, jellyfish stings, pelican pecks and dognappers

Isn’t it about her finding her independence by making the walk on her own although it’s scary? (agree it’s bigger in her mind than in ‘reality’).

Crabs
Jellyfish.
Pelicans.
Dognappers.

Oh god we're watching it again 😂

Also he's still a flamin gallah sending her off when Chilli CLEARLY wants to some peace and quiet. We all know she did all the prep work. Just look what happened when he took them to his brothers pool.

Bluey is really funny and imaginative but I don't think the parenting in it is always great. A lot of Bluey involves them hurting their dad, in particular, and kids watching do copy it.

At seagulls Daddy is a dot. Then she chases after the crab and Mom is a dot. Def no one would hear of she screamed. The pelican is larger than her.

Love Bluey.
Both Chilli & Bandit acknowledge that they don't also do good parenting in many episodes (The Claw, Dance Mode), which I think is good because they're trying to show they aren't perfect parents (I'm looking at you Bing!!). The Beach episode I don't think is bad parenting. Yes maybe Bandit shouldn't have said Bluey could go after her Mum, but I've done similar in the past (gone off for a walk on my own & DD appears) & it's fine. Actually DDis 7 & we allow her to go across the beach between DH & I, as long as we can see her. It is about fostering her independence.
& no, I wasn't worried about her getting attacked by crabs, jellyfish etc - even though there were jellyfish on the beach in Cornwall this year. We showed her what they were & told her to not touch. I'd assume being in Australia, all Aussie kids are taught beach safety from a young age.

Hmm I see I'm outvoted 😂😂 but the Pelican is still big enough to steal her 😂😂

Watching Baby Shower now. He's much better in that one

And yeah, I'd rather go to soft play with Bandit and Chilli than Flop and Padget

I love this thread

Leave Chilli and Bandit alone. They're just doing their best, like the rest of us!

I'm just questioning one parenting choice and being told I'm an over protective mother and my kids will never be as independent as Bluey, its fine 😂😂

Ohhh I thought this was great parenting from both- albeit poor partnering from Bandit! He should have let Chilli have her walk in peace, but thought it was a great example of embracing managed risk to foster independence.

(Also read it as the distance felt much further to Bluey than it really was.)

I fucking love Chilli and Bandit and won’t hear a word against them!

I'm not picking in them 😂😂 I just questioned a parenting choice amongst Chilli and Bandits mutual friends 😂😂

Chilli was on her way back when Bluey caught up with her so she's had a good amount of alone time I think. And I think perceived independence under observation is really important. But I do agree with the others, they're not meant to be perfect, alot of the games involve them laying down, watching TV or just getting on with their own thing and the kids parallel playing. Chilli does seem to get a good amount of kid free time, I don't know many episodes where she has the kids alone, whereas dad seems to have them alone a fair bit.

It's the under supervision bit I'm questioning. There's a point where she can barely see Dad and Dad and can't see Mom so even if it isn't as far as it seems, she's still not really supervised.

Bandit does have them a lot more than Chilli, it's nice to see a nuclear family with a healthy balance of parenting and the parents clearly love each other.

For anyone else at the whims of CBBC, if you've not seen Early Baby, you need to. It's one of the most beautiful kids episodes I've seen

I like Chilli and Bandit, but they're far too calm! The one where Bandit takes the girls to get a takeaway and they touch the tap and flood the place, drop the leaflets, and then at the end they make him drop his takeaway (I think?) and he just gives up... I would've lost my mind with them at that point! Although Bandit sitting there trying to read a paper instead of actually parenting is a bit more realistic.

I do wonder what happened about dinner than night 😂

Bluey isn't really a cartoon, especially episodes like takeaway, it's more like a hard-hitting documentary about the state of my life.

Has anyone seen the theory about what Bandit and Chilli really do for a living?

Basically the neighbourhood they live in has houses that average $1,000,000. Bandit works in archaeology and Chilli works in airport security, their combined annual salary is roughly $50,000-$70,000 and nowhere near enough to live in that house and have that lifestyle. Unless you have one parent with insider knowledge on where to find priceless artifacts and another parent with insider knowledge of how to smuggle those artifacts out of the country...

I buy it!