What TV does your 5yo watch?

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DD1 loves TV and would watch it all day if possible. She usually watches an hour or so (sometimes more ) after school. She was very into CBeebies but now feels a lot of it's too young for her. We've got Netflix and she ends up continuous streaming things, which isn't great. We've exhausted Dora, and then we had Strawberry Shortcake, which was less awful than I'd expected, but now we are onto the Care Bears movie and some cartoon yesterday which seemed to be about brawling bikini clad fairies.

I can't always sit with her to watch as I have to cook dinner, and also look after the baby. I'm trying to get DD1 in with me to do her reading but it doesn't always happen.

Please can you recommend TV programmes which you think are good for this age? We don't watch channels with ads because I can't hack the subsequent demands, but I'd be happy to watch them one at a time on catch up. And should I be limiting her TV time more? I feel she benefits from a bit of downtime in the afternoons but maybe it's gone too far.

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My ds5 loves watching spongebob square pants. Teenage mutant ninja turtles. And a recent one he really likes is operation ouch!!! On CBC!

Cbbc!

Mine is watching Johnny Test on Netflix at the moment

I was told interactive screen time is better than passive, so maybe try her on games not tv? Otherwise, I love all the classic kids films, lots of which are on net flick. If she insists on junk, it is her downtime so fair enough, maybe print related colouring pictures for afterwards or encourage her to draw and label the characters.

We're still watching Thomas the Tank Engine, usually off my laptop.

Fortunately both kids have gotten Peppa Pig out of their systems now :-P

Thank you. Snowman, we've tried CBBC but I think a lot of it's too old for her and once she's watching a programme she doesn't want to stop so I'd rather feel confident about something beforehand.

I find spongebob quite unsettling and violent, but maybe it's just that we haven't watched that kind of cartoony slapstick thing before. I do think I need to loosen up a bit, but I find it hard to judge them. Will check out Johnny Test.

We're having this with 5yo DS at the moment too - he is started to grow out of CBeebies (although there are still things he loves) but struggling to find alternatives that don't seem to old for him / violent etc.

I have a 5yr old DS and he loves 'Wild Things with Dominic Monaghan', 'I'm a Celebrity get me out of here!', 'Jungle Run', 'Art Attack', 'Mr Maker', 'Helicopter Heroes', 'Tree Fu Tom', 'Gigglebiz', 'Peppa Pig.'

After I've put his younger sister to bed we usually snuggle up together on the sofa to watch the older programmes. I tend to avoid letting them watch the Milkshake and Disney channels because their are so many adverts on them. I prefer cbeebies as no adverts and generally more wholesome!

My DS is rising 5. He has two older sisters who refuse to watch anything from CBeebies, but I don't want him (or the DDs) to just sit and watch CBBC as a lot of it is too old for them I think (i dont think i would even let my 8 yr old watch Tracy Beaker etc) so we sky plus all the programmes that they like and then I let them watch them. Mainly: deadly Sixty / deadly pole to pole; horrible histories; scooby do; blue peter; and recently he loved the how to train your dragon spin off cartoons (riders of berk?)