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The dad on that show is a real milksop, but the biggest problem is how whiny the kid is. The bald thing is a good point too. I banned this in my house after one viewing.

It’s a horrible show, filled with a spoiled, whining, bald cancer baby with ineffective parents. It has so many things wrong with it really, but the kicker is that voice. Mooooommmmmmmmmmmyyyyyyyyyyyyyy . Ugh. Shoot me now.

Thanks for the link!

I’m right there with you it’s not that I believe in yelling at kids (despite my actions to the contrary) but the purpose of parents is to correct, to teach, not just to make their children more comfortable.

I watched Caillou for about two seconds while babysitting years ago. It was awful. I could care less about what lessons are being taught. I can’t stand the whiny baby-talk. I don’t talk to my kids that way and I don’t want anyone else to either.

Holy jeez, this show makes me itch. The kid himself doesn’t particularly bother me. It’s the vapid, drugged-out response of his parents. Schlumpy, dull, ever peaceful. Who ARE they?

Though the show is super-cheesey, I like the voiceover/narrator’s explication of Caillou’s emotional process. I think it made a difference for my hard-charging, type A first born daughter to understand feelings.

I hate Caillou, but my just-about-3-y-o loves it, and I have decided that there are WAY worse things than that whiny bald kid. I think as far as the grocery store thing goes–you can’t expect a four year old to not leave a younger sibling–not in a crazy, distracting public place like a grocery store. I would yell at the parent in that case, not the kid–four is WAY too young, especially in a family where the four year-old has not been brought up expected to do that ( i know families in which that IS the case and while i still wouldn;t get too pissed at the four year old for wondering off, I might be a little more stern in that case). And I am one of those parents who believe that older sibs can be taught and encouraged to watch out for their younger sibs–but four is too young to just expect it and rely on it in a public place. The theme song is burned into my brain and pops up all the time–i hate it.

Seems to me that maybe the people who are starkly against and wholly for the show should learn a little from each other. My son loved the show, when he was very young, but my daughter could do without it.. I personally had issue with the over nice, non punishment, passive parenting but also found many of the lessons not only helpful for teaching and showing my kids that others are dealing with everyday struggles of growing up, but even for ideas with ways to communicate instead of simply discipline my children. Here I must note that I had my son when I was 17, I had been emancipated at fifteen and was not a typical 17 year old (getting married the next year to his father who I dated for four years before) but really had no knowledge and certainly no model for parenting skills. I know this will get me some curt comments but I think it pertinent to understanding my convictions. When my children were young I insisted on watching tv with them and talking with them through out the show to remind them that it is no necessary to zone out and stop thinking when they are watching television. We only watch 3 or four half hour shows so it was only their most wanted ones and others were not considered. Now that they are quite older (9 &13) They are each allowed one hour of tv after homework on school days and two hours over the weekend (my son often trades his tv time to play games) and although I do not always sit through a whole show I often will and the television is in the living room making it possible for us to monitor the shows they are choosing. We also have done the same with the family computer, ecspecially helpful with a 13 year old.
What I have read here in the response to the show seems very black and white…. I would hope to see far more shades of gray, much like life.. a consideration of and understanding for an opposing view point allows for intelligent response. So Caillou is not for everyone, but it is for some and even if you are not of the appreciative watchers you can choose to validate your distaste by noting positive attributes you know others may have liked. I am surprised by the harsh and nasty response from parents, I am not a spare the rod, but also am not caillou’s parents, somewhere in the gray area ;) Yes, Caillou could benefit from some constructive criticism from parents but nasty vocalization of hurtful and demeaning descriptions is in and of itself childish.