to want to strangle someone at the BBC for changing the Cbeebies schedule without giving on air notice

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My lo loves Show me Show me. It's part of his routine to watch it in the morning and he loves the groovy moves bit. We do it together and it's actually interactive and fun. It's the only decent damn tv show with 'real' people in it and the b*&^%ards have taken it off. Now there isn't a real human being on the screen (not counting the presenters) until Big Cook Little Cook after 9am and there is virtually nothing aimed at 2 year-olds. Even Justin is for 4-7 year olds.
Apparently the Cbeebies website had news on the changes, in the special grown ups section, but I don't have time to trawl for information. Surely the BBC could have made a trail saying it's springtime and things are changing..... clearly that would be too much to ask. All thanks to the unique way the BBC is funded... bah!

I'm also annoyed about this. DS1 has just realised he loves this show so I recorded it and was just about to record some more. Now I'm going to have to watch the same bloody episode until he gets bored of it. There's only so many times you can sing along to "a sandwich a sandwich a sandwich, I wonder what's inside" argh!

justanothermanicmummy do you know if they do do show me show me dvds.. i would buy one in a heartbeat all the other cbeebies dvds seem to omit that particular programme

Nooooooo YANBU! After a hard nightshift, I rely on a little bit of Cbeebies in the morning so that I can keep DD entertained whist I veg out and do as little as possible before Magic Daddy takes over! I think it's probably the autistic tendencies in me, but I was mortified when I saw the whole thing had changed. I loved Show Me Show Me! EggyAllenPoe - I loved the puffs of cloud thing too! It sort of reminded me of a modern version of Playschool. I then noticed the tea-time/bedtime schedule had changed also. We used to love to settle down to half hour of 3rd and Bird and Waybuloo before bathtime. Swines!

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer And, if you have a Wii, you can get it on there so the kids don't need to pinch your laptop!

YANBU at all. I'm fuming about the exact same thing! And FFS, it's just snobbery to suggest that it's baaad to 'base a routine' round a tv show. OP isn't basing her routine round Show Me Show Me, but her DS loves it and it's something that reliably happens every morning, like breakfast and toothbrushing.

I know they have to change the schedules every so often, but if they gave us warning that a much-loved programme wasn't going to be aired for a while, I might have taped half a dozen Show Mes for DS. He loves it. I think he has a thing for Pui...

And no, DS's day isn't dictated by tv listings: we read, do jigsaws, craft, go to the park, see friends...

Fwiw I think yabu
The cbeebies shedule changes just as any tv shedule changes - because otherwise booooring!

Get over it

Maybe put on a cd and dance around the room instead
This cd is our favourite
You are a real person too

It's damn right inconsiderate of the BBC! However, I HATE big cook little cook, something about it that really bugs me but my son loves it...and hell yeah I allow him to watch TV at various times of the day if we're in...why not? I watch the thing hasn't done me any harm. Anyway, I have Sky now so can plonk my poor DS in front of that...Ooooo slap my arse for being a bad parent.

I've had a look and I can't find a Show me, Show me dvd The BBC are pedalling all kinds of crap but no SMSM dvd.

Sorry thought it'd be easily available.

CBeebies don't warn of programmes being removed - remember the hoo-ha when ITNG was taken off our screens a few years back.

Children get used to the change and parents need break from the same programmes at the same time each day.

However, that Zingzilla's give me the heebeegeebees.

Zingzilla

Needs its own hate threat

I know i despise it just by the noise it makes cant bear to even look at the screen

Rofl at changing tv schedule being grounds for murder

get over it
buy a DVD
watch something else

I like my routine as much as the next mother
but how long do you want it on for?
Til lo start school?
V unrealistic

and dd loves a bit of telly
blardy Big Babies on cbbc
bane of my life

Eeee. The tv haters haven't arrived on mass yet! I was expecting them.

I lurve Chris and Pui, not a big fan of Alex and Kerrie and really don't like the new ZingZillas.

If I didn't have tv babysitters then I would not get a mins peace. I reckon the tv haters have nannies or a constant family member to help them. If I'm wrong could someone please explain how, with more than 1 child do you get house work, lunches, dinners or even a quick cuppa break without a little TV or DVD? Small children have a small attention span...I know there will be a smart alec with a list of answers soon...

We miss Chris and Pui here too

I have a funny but somewhat unrelated story to give you a laugh!!!
Dirtgirl really is a dirty girl!!!! (if not it's her identical voice twin) on one of those late night adverts on tv (not that I was watching, tv in other room and was surprised to hear the familiar voice uttering words not fit for cbeebies!)
"just text your postcode to blah blah...."

Oops, should clarify, just in case!

late night advert was definatly not on cbeebies!!

NEMummy, don't you know?

You must get LOs to knit rice cakes or maybe carve the Taj Mahal from a butternut squash. Teach them french.

Do you think that the Boden Mummys would mind awfully if the little ones were watching french arthouse films on the gogglebox instead of Chris and Pui pretending to be exasperated shopkeepers/Little Bo Peep?

Well, you did ask, NEMummy:

After they're in bed. During naps. Or involve them in helping - my toddler will happily drape small clothes over the wooden drying frame while I peg sheets, or she'll snap asparagus into bits for quiche, or she'll help me sweep. Before she was able to do any of that, when she was incredibly clingy and needed to be carried and entertained all the time, I'd put her in a backcarry and do things that way. If you have more than one, obviously you have to wait till at least one is napping and use the above technique with the other.

But mostly, I'd do things after she went to bed. And I don't take cuppa breaks.

I don't know why you bothered being so preemptively defensive, TBH. No-one's come on this thread to say you shouldn't use television. So why are you being so snide? I wouldn't have bothered being a smart alec with answers if you hadn't asked.

Fair enough. I didm't mean to be snide.

And fair play, I only have the one so I'm not really answering your question properly. But I don't like being pigeonholed ahead of time just because I don't like television.

Im not a tv hater
I am someone who thinks screen time should be restricted though (an hour a day is plenty)

It really isnt that hard to exist without tv (we do!)

Snapping bits of asparagus into a quiche... I should have out that next to knitting rice cakes.

If you shut you eyes when zingzillas is on it's the tweenies. they even have a spinny muticooloured thing (obviously you have to open your eyes for that bit!)

I didn't think you were being snide NEmummy, the others are getting their knickers in a knot No one has come onto this thread to tell us to get lives because they are all on the other one.

Lol at asparagus

Unfortunately tortoiseonthehalfshell those of us who don't mind a bit of Tv for our los for whatever reason have had to put up with sanctimonious smuggery from no TV types in RL and on here. I watched Tv as a kid, 3 degrees and a University certificate donw the line it doesn't seem to have affected me adversely .

And yes you do only have one so you're not able to answer properly. Tv is a lifesaver with 2 esp in the early days with a newborn and a toddler.

FWIW dd likes "show me show me" and we were pretty put out a couple of years back when ITNG disappeared from the evening schedule. and replaced by "3rd and Bird" WTF?? I can cook woman makes me want to pulse my skull against the wall repetitively and the "laugh" that Big Cook and Little Cook do puts the Tv screen at risk of being smashed into smithereens. Alex and Ceri dull dull dull, sid and andy number rap all the way.

My dd watches shock horror Milkshake with the ads and everything!!!!? Just Peppa and Fifi tho, I don't want to contaminate her too much.

BTW whatever happened to "Storymakers"? Blue Cow et al?

This is why I Sky+ Timmy Time for me DD, it's the only thing on Cbeebies we she watches as she loves the News above anything else (I know she is a bit odd)