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Yo Gabba Gabba!
2007 · TV series · 23 min episodes · 4 seasons
Created by Christian Jacobs, Scott Schultz
Yo Gabba Gabba! is an American children's television show that airs on the Nick Jr. cable network in the United States and the Nick Jr. networks in the United Kingdom & Ireland, Italy, France and Australia as well as Treehouse TV network in Canada and RTE2 on RTÉjr in Ireland. The show stars five costumed toys-come-to-life and their friend DJ Lance Rock, who explore a single topic in each episode through songs and short storylines in the half-hour program while teaching children life and social skills. It also encourages viewers to move along with and dance with the characters in the program. The show is noted for its indie-culture guest stars and bands, and for drawing visual inspiration from 8-bit video games and H. R. Pufnstuff.
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Some of our favorite pedogocial youtube channels and topics:
Younger Kids:
Bounce Patrol: a cut above your average nursery rhyme channel, with singing, dancing and some ABC / 123 lessons.
Pocoyo: Very well crafted and entertaining show, slipping in some good lessons.
Yo Gabba Gabba: Such a joy, with fun new topics each episode.
Older Kids:
Science Max / Science Doug
Minecraft redstone tutorials: Mumbo Jumbo
Scratch programming tutorials: Griffpatch
Keyboard / xylophone how do I play this song tutorials
Making stuff (out of cardboard) tutorials
Too weird for today? Have you seen Yo Gabba Gabba?
Parents of today like weird. And yes, maybe some stuff would be offensive in today's context, but not that bad.
We watched a couple of the old Pee-Wee movies with my kids and a bit of some of the old shows and they loved them. We're very lefty and I don't recall anything in them that raised any particular alarm bells.
My daughter is 5. She had zero screen time till she was 2. After that, it was a case by case basis. 5 minutes a day when she was 3 - which is one peppa pig episode. The only computer time she was allowed were for drawing using paint or Photoshop. At 4, on special occasions, she got to ask for a few YouTube videos - usually Dora, peppa pig, or something educational. She was also allowed to ask to watch the news, which she did sometimes. Her allowed TV time went up to 20 minutes a day, but she didn't know that- for her, it was either 2 peppa pig episodes or one yo gabba gabba. However, we did not make a big deal of increasing her screen time. We made a big deal about the fact that because she is 4, she now gets two bedtime stories. At 5, her screen time has not increased. But, if she is a really good girl, she can ask for 3 bedtime b stories. How's it working? Well, she isn't bothered about TV that much, she loves books and she knows ads are really about getting you to spend money. So I think she's on the right track.
I try my best to answer all her questions and encourage her to ask more. When I don't know the answer, she and I do the research together.
I think the approach is working really well and we're going to do the same with our one year old too.
Heh, 4 years since my son was born, and while at the begining HBO was ON, later as he grew up and was bothered by the TV noise, we switched to Netflix, but watch only movies with captions - and these are... well non-english ones :) So here ya go!
Oh, And I have to watch with him Yo-gabba-gabba, Franklin and the Upside down show (which is great btw)