If you spend any amount of time on the Internet, it becomes very obvious that mothers disagree on almost everything. From playground etiquette to disciplinary styles to whether or not pizza and dry cereal counts as a balanced meal, motherhood is emotionally charged and often pretty divisive.
However, if you ever want to see a group of moms in total agreement on an issue, ask them one simple question: Which children’s TV character annoys you the most?
You’ll be met with a resounding chorus of “CAILLOU!”
Is it Caillou’s uncooperative attitude or his insufferably whiny voice that has led to his ban in so many households, including my own? It doesn’t matter. Hating that “bald little asshole” is probably the one thing that brings us all together.
Check out the solidarity in this hilarious video from Buzzfeed:
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I am so lucky my kids have no interest in this. The one cartoon i hate is max and ruby. Egh
I stopped letting my kids watch Caillou after the second show. I agree, Max and Ruby isn’t much better. When my well spoken toddlers started imitating Max’s broken sentences I banned that show too. They loved Thomas the Tank Engine, Fanklin and Bob the Builder were good shows. Caillou was just a whinie brat.
The problem I have with modern children’s shows is that they seem to encourage children to act like babies instead of to act their age or grow up. When I was growing up, we had Grover on Sesame Street, who spoke in grammatically correct English. In the 90s, Grover was replaced by Elmo, who spoke in broken sentences and seemed to have an extreme case of ADHD.
Today’s kids’ shows seem to follow this trend, with Caillou encouraging children to whine and cry over every little thing and Daniel Tiger encouraging children to be dependent on adults instead of independent.