Overstimulating shows

I need suggestions for shows that yall have noticed have been too stimulating for your kids! We definitely have noticed issues when she watches Bebefinn, Cocomelon, Babyshark and other shows like that! Trying to work on removing some of the overstimulating shows from my children’s account and move towards less overwhelming screen time and more screen free time! Also screen-free activity ideas are also appreciated ❤️

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Maybe go with shows that have a storyline? We like Postman Pat (YouTube), Bluey, and Thomas the Train

broooo this youtube show called D billions

is overstimulating as shiiii

We like trash truck, sea of love on Netflix and tumble leaf on Amazon. On YouTube I let him watch Danny go once in a while to get some energy out he does some dancing and gets kids moving. I would just watch with your kid and make sure the scene changes aren’t fast and that the overall message of the show is good. There’s a lot of stuff out there especially on YouTube that is overstimulating and has negative messages for kids, if we’re ever on YouTube on a phone or tablet I make sure to lock the screen and select what videos he can watch I don’t let my son choose or anything.

We watch shows on PBS kids and the nature shows on Disney plus.

I liked super simple songs on youtube for fun songs and learning, but for less stimulating trash truck, bluey, if you give a mouse a cookie, or curious George. (I know I like bluey more than my kid)

Baby shark and cocomelon were super overstimulating for my kids too. Now we watch bluey, and Daniel tiger (pbs in general is awesome), or movies with a storyline. My girl loves Disney princesses, barbie, spider man.

And some screen free activities I love doing are getting giant coloring books from dollar tree as well as their pack of markers because they’re so cheap and kids are kids so I don’t need to stress about them getting lost or drying out. They also have so many cute little activities like painting ornaments, magnetic tin play sets, they have doctor and dentist pretend play. I dye my own rice for my daughters sensory bins, we also do water play sometimes I’ll put some food coloring in the water to practice color recognition, and my biggest is READ READ READ! Even if they just run off continue to read because it stimulates their brain in so many good ways.

we don’t watch any shows other than on PBS. but we do get into movies pretty hard but i’d say for less stimulating stuff PBS is great and it’s free !

@Monica at first my baby would love for me to read and sing to him but now that he is hitting his trouble twos, lately he’s hasn’t been wanting me to read to him. I still try to read to him when I feel like he is calm and isn’t distracted

@Mariah Try to do more silly voices I notice when I do different voices for different books my daughter is more interested. For example the “never touch” I’ll do like a grumpy voice and for a book like let’s say fancy Nancy I’ll do a soft sweet voice. Another thing you could do is look up Vooks on YouTube my daughter loves the Earthyay video.

Daniel Tiger.

@Monica thank you

Bluey is the only low stim show that my kid has actually taken to lol. If you're looking to reduce screentime in general (and not being judgemental at all!), my biggest bit of advice is to lead by example. Treat your own downtime the same way you would like them to: put down the screen to read, spend time in the garden, learn a recipe together, etc.. We're all flawed human beings that need time to decompress of course, but I've worked through this by my own trail/error. These days I keep my phone in another room and try to get my toddler involved with whatever mundane task I have going, getting annoyed but learning patience as my kid learns to be a human. Tip #2 is to let them learn to be bored. Kids have amazing imaginations, even at this age. Let them moan and groan at you. Keep an easily accessible shelf of picture books and (hopefully also) low stim toys that they can independently interact with. Good luck!!