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DD is 17 mo now and recently she has been watching to odd episode of bob the builder, when i say watching i mean it she looks like shes paying attention before she's glance at the tele if it was on dance on occasion and very sadly cheer along if i the saddo was watching prime ministers question time(am worried she may be a tory!)

Anyway i digress the last epsode whe watched a character toppled over and was stuck on his side and she burst into tears and kept pointing at the tele and was upset until the character was the right way up!

Is this noraml and is it empathy or just ditress as things not behaving as expected. Just curious perhaps i should get a book on child development .....

That sounds normal to me. When ds was similar age (maybe a little older) he used to get really upset by the ep in the Teletubbies where the valley filled up with water so the boats could come. He obviously couldn't really express it but equally obviously thought the Teletubbies had drowned (wishful thinking by certain parents, i.e. me, might agree).

Later they don't mind if a character gets ripped in two by a T-Rex ...

Thanks for replying will observe the crazy baby further

I have to vet episodes of Pocoyo as DD1 still gets hysterical if she sees the episode where he loses his ballon and is sad. She just weeps and pleads with me to get his balloon back and has done since she was about 18 months. She is now 3!

My crazy baby (now 12) used to adore Teletubbies but, if you were to say "eh-oh" to him (Teletubby Stylee) he would burst into tears. He actually still remembers this.
Also my younger ds cried, as a baby, when any (and I mean any) type of sad music was played. We had to leave a cafe once, mid-meal, as they were piping Smooth FM romantic songs out on the radio. Who knows, eh?

Completely normal. My dd can't watch that one with the granny with the dog who flies around in a plane (come outside, is it??) because the first time she watched it the dog got left behind on the bus. She bawled. Must have been under 2 at the time.