blippi & tantrums

I find tubi (it’s free) has the best and least stimulating cartoons! And most of them are from my own childhood! Like Maggie and the ferocious beast, the big blue house, the big comfy couch and others! I allow my son to watch those and he’s doing much better than the super stimulating stuff!

I had something similar but it wasn’t with Blippi. My daughter loves in the night garden, I let her watch it when it’s on some days on the TV but only one episode and not every day. I realised when my mum had her she was putting it on her phone for my daughter to watch back to back episodes. My daughter then starts bringing me and my husband our phones constantly asking for ‘garden’. We would say no and she would have a mega tantrum with some aggression at times. I told my mum to stop putting it on so often and if she did only 1 episode, I never caved with putting it on my phone and she doesn’t ask us as much and on the odd occasion she does she doesn’t scream when we say no x

i never have let her watch overstimulating things, cocomelon is a big big no, it was only miss rachel and bluey that id let her watch, i did a quick search for blippi and it said that wasn’t overstimulating but clearly not😫 you said your sons got better so im assuming before he was watching stimulating shows? apologies if im wrong but if that’s the case, how long did it take to see an improvement in his behaviour after stopping them?

My daughter is the same we just had a baby so my partners been letting her watch it but she will just scream and cry I told him to stop and only let her watch low stimulation shows cause it was too much!

If you go to their channel on the top you should see 3 dots and it’ll show you an option to block it

it was rare so it wasn’t a big issue, but I noticed he was harder to deal with for when being laid down for naps/bedtime and I believed it was due to overstimulation. When he watched less stimulating shows he ended up going to sleep the first time I laid him down without a fuss each time. So it was almost immediate for us usually if he watches stuff it’s tubi or or reality shows but we will go entire days without it often so I was able to piece together he was only doing it on days he watched tv and I knew it wasn’t the tv alone causing it!

Based on my toddler I think there is a major difference between screen time on the tv iPad or phone. iPads/phones are close to the face, with bright colors, fast-paced sounds, and quick transitions. This overstimulates the brain, especially in toddlers. They’re also more immersive and stimulating, it’s harder for toddlers to switch gears when they're taken away. That’s when meltdowns happen. I started looking into this when I noticed my toddler only had meltdowns when iPad was taken off him but ok when I turn the TV off. So iPad is now completely banned for him and he’s tv screen time is very limited. He watched blippi the short episodes and ok when I turn it off

Tbh there’s a lot of hate but I love them both my daughter loves them she’s autistic and she didn’t start talking until she was like 3 and at 2 it was mainly sining or mumbling pretend words and it was all because of coco melon lol ! Blipping she just loves and I see no harm I don’t mind him lmao I limit screen time but not like that I guess it’s like having a bite of chocolate and not being allowed any more only water for the whole week , that you get another bite but it’s never enough aha. It can get aggravating ya know ? So maybe spread the time out or just excel all together so it doesn’t feel like such a tease if you get what I mean

If you have a YouTube kids account, you can set it so only channels you allow appear - so for example, you could ONLY have Miss Rachel’s channel available if you wanted (just remember to block her video with Blippi 😆)

it was never ever a problem though when it was just miss rachel or bluey, and she never had it on for her benefit if you get me as horrible as that sounds, she only has screen time when she’s inconsolable and all other options have been explored, when she’s out and having to sit still for a long time and again all other options are failing to work, or if i’m not able to get something done and it’s just me and her in the house (which is rare), so i wouldn’t stop it all together but i also won’t make it a regular thing, especially with how she’s going off right now, correct me if i’m wrong but don’t children with autism sometimes need that extra stimulation? so maybe it’s not as stimulating to your child as it is to mine. i really apologise if that sounds rude i’m happy to learn if i’m incorrect! 😊

that would probably be better yes thank you!! how do i do this is it just in general settings?

Ive never had that reaction to Blippi funny enough. But my son used to act similarly when he was watching the dancing fruit like he was OBSESSEDDDDD!!! And when we turned it off for the day he would act out so bad. We banned it from our house because the kids get too hypnotized and addicted.

Hes now very much into colouring/painting/drawing videos like Chiki art and Magic Fingers art which are much slower and calming, and hes been so inspired to do more arts and crafts every day.

Both my kids have really been into Kunda and friends, the messages in the songs are sooo good and empowering for kids

No hand held devices - it’s far more addicting. Then you get control of the remote too! She’s only 13 months old - I think blippi would be overstimulating.

I’m sorry! It’s not just blippi it’s the whole iPad girl. If I were you, I would remove it all together. If you really want to allow screen time, allow the TV for a certain allotted time of the day. For example: bluey in the morning when you’re eating breakfast. But I really would not do the iPad. Ik it’s easy but I’ve seen first hand, with like 4 different kids now, what it can do, and it’s really not worth it

My daughter acted the same way with blippi on the tv so he’s banned and we only do animal documentaries, music, or Miss Rachel on YouTube on the tv. Never our phones or iPad. We had to just hide blippi to get her over it and she’s been fine since.

We don’t do shows on a tablet or phone (except when we were traveling we let her watch on tablet) and any screen time is the TV when we are at home. Our nearly 4 yo is allowed to watch 2 episodes of bluey when we get home from preschool, it started when I needed to feed her baby sister as soon as we got back home and she now calls it her bluey relax time after a “long day 😆 “. She never gets more than 2 episode, she asks for one more most days, I just say no and sometimes she gets upset but most days she says ok! and moves on… I think you just have to be firm and consistent, tantrums will keep happening but not giving in isn’t mean it’s showing her boundaries

When my 3ys old watches something on Ipad she is hipnotised. She doesn't answer if I ask her something and it is crazy. We decided not to let her see anything on IPad.
She watches Blippi and Meekah but not a problem with them!
The problem is that I hate them... But this is another point😂😂😂

Watch Miss Rachel on Netflix and hide blippi on there.
I have hidden soooo many shows on there for my 4 year old.
I banned her from using YouTube when she was about 2.5-3 as when she learnt how to choose another video, who knew what she could be watching.
YouTube is awful for kids. The made up stories behind their favourite shows which makes you believe they’re watching a cute episode when actually it’s got a million subliminal messages in!

Also loved Miss Rachel! My daughter learned sooooo much from her. X

I agree with others - it’s the tablet and her being in control of it (as much as a 13 month old can be) that is the issue. My kids have tablets but they’re not allowed to watch videos on it, they’re allowed to play game though. I’ve had to essentially ban them using my YouTube on the tv as well, they just turn into zombies watching the videos and just constantly click to get to the next thing. Shows on Disney/netflix/iplayer are fine though!

I’ve never had that with blippi but mostly with tablets or phones. So we really don’t allow the younger kids to use it

So I just came across an Instagram post about blippi and tantrums. So I guess you’re not alone.he said to go to tvtantrum.com. To check out his review of it. His insta is uschooler, I use his page to know recommended calm programmes and my son has enjoyed them all like, Corey Carson, duck and goose, we love bluey anyway, llama llama, and a few others