Comments on: Noggin, Noggin, Wherefore Art Thou, Noggin?

By: Confessions of a Mean Mommy » Blog Archive » Mean Mom’s Question Time: How Much TV Do Your Kids Watch?

Tue, 04 May 2010 17:45:58 +0000

[...] Before this year, they progressed from (yes, I know) Baby Einstein videos and Sesame Street, to years of total devotion to Noggin, to a brief detour into Playhouse Disney (think Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Handy Manny, and Tigger [...]

By: Heide Eiseman

Heide Eiseman — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:09:39 +0000

Sweet post! My niece is 2 and she loves yo gabba gabba!

By: Denise

Denise — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:27:33 +0000

Jen,
absolutely — three cheers for Little Bear! I swear, sometimes I have days where I wish I could come home to some nice cupcakes and lemonade prepared by Mother Bear. We all need a Mother Bear sometimes, right?

keep reading,

Denise

By: jen

jen — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:22:02 +0000

i was googling “little bear” and found this blog… googling little bear because my almost-3yo daughter is obsessed with the show. it’s her absolute fav, and the favorite of mine and my husband’s. what a peaceful, sweet show with a really nice, earthy undertone. usually when i ask other parents if they have seen little bear, they haven’t. most are suffering through dora, elmo, and sponge bob, but i’m sooo glad we’re not! (i so cannot handle elmo’s voice.) anyway, three cheers for little bear!

By: Alida

Alida — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:56:17 +0000

Yes, yes, yes…to the post and everyone’s comments also. We had cable and the kids loved Blue’s Clues and the Backyardigan’s even Dora. I was always a little freaked out by the way Dora asks a question and then stares intently at the screen. Many times I screamed out the answer just to make her look away!

I have a husband that’s a huge movie buff. Sci-Fi and horror fan to be precise, so unfortunately my kids also love cheesy Godzilla movies, Star Wars even (I shudder) even some zombie flicks.

The recently made a little skit with their blocks, dinosaurs and stuffed animals. “Godzilla vs Zombies” Godzilla and zombies are fighting and brown bear swoops in and saves the day. There may be hope for them yet.

By: Meagan Francis

Meagan Francis — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:10:38 +0000

In our house, the boys go backward all the time. The same big kid (10 and almost 12) who’ve got a few PG-13 movies under their belts will happily sit and watch the gentler shows on Nick Jr. And the little boys love Spongebob *and Little Bear and Calliou (I only wish they didn’t like Calliou…)

Their obsession at the moment, however, is Tom and Jerry. Guess it must be classically funny…

I do see your point, though. It’s a slippery slope, that programming, and the snarkier and rougher the shows get, the harder it can seem to imagine a day when quiet, plot-driven (rather than learning-driven) shows reigned.

By: monica

monica — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:12:46 +0000

Love noggin too – and some disney. I actually prefer these channels over PBS, not because of the programming, but because PBS really DOES have commercials for products “Arthur, brought to you by Juicy Juice!” “Chuck E. Cheese proudly supports PBS kids’ television, where a kid can be a kid.” and other such statements along with footage of the products. At least disney and noggin, (I believe), only promote their own shows and not products…

By the way, my older boy was pretty innocent- TV wise – until he was 7 or 8. He would happily watch shows that were appropriate for his younger brother until about then. Then he finally discovered the remote, and other channels – especially the ESPN channels – nothing has been the same since. He loves sports and you’d think it would be OK to let them watch – but the commercials are the least of the problem – the product commercials are certainly troubling (beer, weight loss products, etc) but the very hardest to deal with are the horribly violent promos for prime time TV.

By: Chris Le Beau

Chris Le Beau — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:17:20 +0000

Definitely, Hope, and I was including shows like that in my assessment (though Arthur frequently has mean-kid scenarios that I don’t like). All of the PBS shows are far and away more innocent and less marketing-driven than anything that supposedly appeals to the “next” age level.

By: Hope

Hope — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 04:08:32 +0000

There’s a whole world of fun, engaging shows on PBS for slightly older preschoolers/K-1: Sid the Science Kid, Dinosaur Train, Super Why, then Arthur, Word Girl, etc. And, there are no commercials. I love some of the Noggin shows, but the quality on PBS is significantly higher.

By: TC

TC — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:57:51 +0000

I have to disagree on one thing: My third-grade son has seen WAY worse than Kung-Fu Panda, and regularly watches movies with his father that cause me to refuse to talk to my husband for several days (aside from saying “WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?” I mean)…and yet, among his VERY favorite shows? Wubbzy. Backyardigans. Even Blue’s Clues.

Guess he’s just eclectic.