The struggle has only begun.
Your kids only get exposed to what you choose the first 4 years or so. Choose wisely.
Oh really? Let them go to a friends house and get introduced to Blippi when you’re not paying attention.
Under four my kids aren't getting a lot of unsupervised screen time at other friends houses.
1. Bc who knows what people know about as far as parental controls, YouTube, etc. You start watching baby shark and YouTube autoplay has you watching furries after 4-5 videos.
2. We also are some of the first of our friends to have kids so we have a limited peer group as is. Father in law is the most likely culprit to give her garbage and I've seriously considered setting up parental controls while he's watching her. We've staved off such notables as Frozen, bubble guppies, & paw patrol.
FWIW my family currently watches the mandalorian together. We play her lots of studio ghibli and "classic" kids films along with some other stuff like the original star wars trilogy. Currently in a toy story phase. Previously the new animated spider verse which was good in it's own right.
I don't think the content makes a huge difference in her education but it sure as hell makes a difference in my wife and I's quality of life and ability to enjoy a movie with her. We can sit on the couch together and watch Toy story 3 but there's no way in hell I'd stand watching an episode of doc mcstuffins for even 5 minutes.
How's she ever going to know the difference though unless we expose her? And even then, just don't make it available. They'll get the fuck over whining for the wiggles ten minutes into howls moving castle. One's intolerable while the other is at least coherent content.
Ok, I think I'll go drown myself in the hot tub with a white Russian after writing those paragraphs out.
*gurgle