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Anyone else's dcs scared by Numberjacks?

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nearlythree · 27/10/2006 22:06

The content is right but the style seems much more suited to older children...or is it just me and mine that have a problem?

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ilovecaboose · 28/10/2006 16:34

ds just thinks it is crap. Doesn't hold his concentration for a second.

lockets · 28/10/2006 16:34

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DumbledoresGirl · 28/10/2006 16:35

On right this minute now on CBeebies!

DumbledoresGirl · 28/10/2006 16:35

Ds3 missed it this morning and has been asking every ten minutes when it will be on next! Now absorbed!

cori · 28/10/2006 16:41

yes DS 4.5 is scared of it, but still wants to watch it. Does sometimes run out of the room screaming though.

jodee · 28/10/2006 16:46

thanks lockets ... just caught some of it, ds completely uninterested, too babyish he said.

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swedishmum · 28/10/2006 18:39

I think it's an appalling dull badly presented programme that looks like it was thought up by two work experience kids on Special Brew. Not scary, just utterly utterly crap. Bring back el nombre! Just because it's on CBeebies doesn't mean it's good for kids. Hate hate hate it.

numberwang · 28/10/2006 19:18

Agree totally with swedishmum. Awful program - gets called Numberwang in our house.

Tommy · 28/10/2006 19:42

scares the pants off my two

gingernut · 28/10/2006 19:44

Yes, ds1 who is nearly 5 has been scared by it, and so have at least 3 of his friends the same age. One bit he found frightening was the Puzzler, a floating head whose facial features popped outside his face and circled round it. ds1 still keeps asking to watch it but I have banned it because he has been up in the night saying he is scared by it.

lol at numberwang.

cupsnakes · 28/10/2006 19:48

we call it numberwang too.

ds loves it but although dd happy to watch it she tells me afterwards that it has 'scary monsters'.

Olihan · 28/10/2006 20:03

Ds totally freaked at the spoon thing a couple of days ago and kept going on about it so I've banned it now. (Was looking for an excuse tbh, hate it more than sodding Granny Murray )

Didn't realise it was aimed at 4-5 yr olds though, ds is 2.9.

Pruni · 28/10/2006 20:06

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23balloons · 28/10/2006 20:39

ds's both love it age 4 & 6. You can often replay it if you have telewest replay TV.

alex8 · 28/10/2006 20:42

my son is obsessed too. He find all the scary things quite scary though (spooky spoon, the problem blob etc) but it doesn't stop him watching it and now he is often found daying "I've spotted a problem"

Rosieglow · 28/10/2006 22:00

It's DS's new favourite programme (he's almost 4). It does scare him too though. But he tells me that it's good scary rather than really scary.

That number catcher man with the hoover arm scared me though. He was just too evil looking.

But I'm letting him watch it because I'm I'm trying to keep him on CBeebies. He's just discovered CBBC which I'm loath to let him start watching - if he starts liking Basil Brush I may have to kick the telly in. AT the minute I've convinced him that CBBC is only on at teatime on school days (conveniently when Numberjacks is on...)

mumandlovingit · 28/10/2006 22:33

havent read all the thread but my two boys, 4 and 5 have started going on about numberjacks and they sing the tune and seem to love it.

i havent seen it myself.is it something i should watch or worry about? i assumed it was just numbers.

they watch that on cbeebies while im tidying up.

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nearlythree · 28/10/2006 23:32

It's not violent, just distictly odd, It has a bit of a sci-fi feel to it and some of the 'baddies' are the stuff of childrens' nightmares. I think I would have had a problem with it as a child, but if your dcs are okay so far I wouldn't worry.

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handlemecarefully · 28/10/2006 23:40

My children do not scare easily. In fact they don't scare at all.

They love numberjacks (aged 2.5 and 4)

cbtrue · 30/10/2006 08:23

We are getting utterly fed up with CBeebies (DD & me) and ocassionaly swith to Nick Jr, but as we limit tv to 1 hour a day and DD at school for most of it. Finding something suitable at 5.30 ish is difficult.

Flamebat · 30/10/2006 11:10

DD seems to love it (that and doodledo have actually got her back into cbeebies)... just seen the shape changer thing though - bit demonic looking!!!!!!!

Gonna watch the rest now!

MwaHaHappyDaddy · 30/10/2006 15:23

Not scared, she loves it. I think it's crap.

Iklboo · 30/10/2006 15:26

Every time I hear it I think of That Mitchell & Webb Look

"That's Numberwang!"

handlemecarefully · 30/10/2006 19:44

cbtrue - you need skyplus; you could then record something like Peppa Pig off Nick Jnr (usually on around 10.00 am I think) and then play it back at 5.30 pm....