Cocomelon is banned from my house! I think it’s evil!

[Anonymous]

Cocomelon accidentally came on after a movie ended on Amazon prime, so I was thinking ok cool maybe a new show my 1 YO could watch! Nope! My boy has NEVER been so deeply almost entranced by anything on tv, for about 5 minutes I watched my normally very active, toy exploring little guy turn into a glossy eyed zombie! That was it for me, as soon as I shut it off he snapped out of it! Like a trance! So I did some research and read other parents say similar things or even worse, severe behavioral lashing out because of this show! I also read that Cocomelon producers do it on purpose, they change the picture on the screen every couple seconds producing the same effects as Snapchat or Instagram does to us! Like a dopamine hit until it’s drained nearly! I’m banning Cocomelon! I would recommend everyone do their research and come to their own conclusions.

[Anonymous]

What's Cocomelon?

[Anonymous]

I have heard many parents of young children say that they are banning Cocomelon from their kids because they have read or heard that exposing their child to it is like exposing your child to crack.

????!!

Everytime a kids show comes along, there are always those that cannot wait to bring it down!
My kids are in their 30’s now but when they were toddlers I got so much flack for allowing them to watch Teletubbies.
Jerry Faldwell at the time was warning parents that exposing your children to this show could make them “gay” since the purple Teletubby “Tinky Winky” was a gay color (purple), had a gay shape on his head (a triangle?) and was a boy but carried a purse.

Later on my kids were into Harry Potter which experts claimed was bad for kids since it exposed them to witchcraft.

Cocomelon is just like these shows from the past, they are popular so of course someone wants to bring it down.

The content is educational, the songs are catchy ➕ fun and the nuclear family unit is all about love.

And I find it touching how the show’s creators have named some of the characters after the three Watts children who were murdered in 2018.

[Anonymous]

*Bella, Ce Ce + Nico.

[Anonymous]

Why is your 1 yo watching shows?

[Anonymous]

Yes, it’s known to be a particularly addictive show. It’s too bright and too fast. It’s awful.

[Anonymous]

Keep your kids away from slop garbage like that. It's as bad as porn and video games.

[Anonymous]

While the OP sounds a bit...manic, this is 100% correct. I've noticed this as well - for young kids, some shows are fine, like sesame street, mr rogers, etc but a lot of the modern shows where everything moves so fast turns them into little glassy eyed zombies who throw a giant tantrum when it's time to turn the tv off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why is your 1 yo watching shows?

Some parents need a digital baby sitter unfortunately

[Anonymous]

I do like the cocomelon songs on Apple Music. Toddler LOVESS them

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have heard many parents of young children say that they are banning Cocomelon from their kids because they have read or heard that exposing their child to it is like exposing your child to crack.

????!!

Everytime a kids show comes along, there are always those that cannot wait to bring it down!
My kids are in their 30’s now but when they were toddlers I got so much flack for allowing them to watch Teletubbies.
Jerry Faldwell at the time was warning parents that exposing your children to this show could make them “gay” since the purple Teletubby “Tinky Winky” was a gay color (purple), had a gay shape on his head (a triangle?) and was a boy but carried a purse.

Later on my kids were into Harry Potter which experts claimed was bad for kids since it exposed them to witchcraft.

Cocomelon is just like these shows from the past, they are popular so of course someone wants to bring it down.

The content is educational, the songs are catchy ➕ fun and the nuclear family unit is all about love.

And I find it touching how the show’s creators have named some of the characters after the three Watts children who were murdered in 2018.

I'm not OP but there is a big difference in how shows are produced now with the constant screen cuts. That style of show has been flagged for attention/brain development concerns for years. This obviously isn't scientific, but I just randomly picked a Teletubbies episode and it was 0:25 to the first cut scene and then an another 0:20 to the next. I picked a random cocomelon and the had 6 screen cuts in the first 0:25 of the song.

I personally think it's fine, in moderation, like everything but if my kid was having focus/attention issues I would cut that type of media out.

[Anonymous]

Research shows that Cocomelon is a problem.

https://www.parents.com/news/some-think-cocomelon-is-too-stimulating-for-their-kids-we-asked-an-expert-to-weigh-insome-think-cocomelon-is-too-stimulating-for-their-kids-we-asked-an-expert-to-weigh-in/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is your 1 yo watching shows?

Some parents need a digital baby sitter unfortunately

I just feel like this is a lot of exclamation points when the reality is that's not an age for TV at all.

I'm not anti screen time. Even at age 2, there is value to shows like Daniel Tiger and yes they are nice and slow.

I just think at age 1 there are broader problems besides OP's specific alarm about Cocomelon.

Personally I liked the songs but my kids were older like 3.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why is your 1 yo watching shows?

+1

"New show" implies that there are other shows he watches? Get that child off the TV! He's one year old!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is your 1 yo watching shows?

+1

"New show" implies that there are other shows he watches? Get that child off the TV! He's one year old!

There are no common studies that demonstrate that exposing a child to television before their first birthday does them any physical or emotional harm.

It’s just a fallacy.
No one can differentiate between adults now which ones were exposed to TVs earlier than other ones.

Re: Cocomelon, in 25 years people will be laughing about the allegations now like we all laugh about how Barney was heavily criticized when it first came out.