#Key monkey junior how to#

Absolutely a crying shame if all the media and cultural depictions of your specific parental role, showed you as giving up everything for your children and if you held onto one thing that interfered with that time you were called “selfish” and accused of harming your children. *Me taking a drag of my cigarette* Yeah, dudes, sure would suck to have society expect that you literally toss your body onto a pyre of home and family to be a good parent. This is true in some ways, but it’s perhaps dangerous and irresponsible to give weight to the idea that becoming a parent means you have to say goodbye to your old life and your old personality. The implication is that Bandit - and by extension, all of us parents watching - know that we have to give up the things we personally enjoy to make space for our children and to support our partners. This man writes with absolutely no sense of gendered irony: In an article on, a writer, who is a father complains that Bandit has to give up playing rugby to have time for his family. But like, are you listening to yourself, Junior? You are mad that a kid’s show portrays a father as a good man? And for those of you who don’t know, Bandit is an archeologist and he goes to work, pitches in with household chores, and plays with his kids.Īnd they have very imaginative games. I’m gonna do what the kids want me to do and pretend with them.’ So my girls, mainly Isla (who just turned 5), they have the same expectation of me.'įirst of all, the dad on Bluey, has a name and it’s Bandit. He’s never got this thing he’s got to do or he’s never mowing the lawn and whatever, right? It’s always, ‘Yep, you got it. Anytime they want the dad to get in on the fun or to play, he’s never too busy,' he said. Come on, Dad, pretend this.’ So every episode, my kids watch ‘Bluey’ and see the dad is like the kids’ best friend. 'But we watch ‘Bluey’ and the kids are like, ‘Come on, Dad, do this. Junior is irked that a cartoon character father actually likes spending time with his kids. Junior’s problem is that the dad on Bluey is involved in his kids’ lives.

He has no systemic problems with the pants or city governance on the show.

#Key monkey junior how to#

Because he taught entire generations of kids (and parents) how to pronounce gnocchi.īut that’s not Dale Jr.’s beef with Bluey. And why is it so often that a kid of indeterminate age with a pack of wild animals has to run entire cities? What kind of chaotic system of governance is this? Don’t even get me started on Curious George, where a monkey, who was literally enslaved and is now owned by a yellow-hat-wearing-trust-fund-baby, is allowed to destroy priceless historical finds, and roams the city with no supervision. After all, the pants situation on most of those characters is chaotic at best.

And look, as someone who has a seven-year-long beef with Paw Patrol, I understand the inclination to get irritated at kid’s shows. This week, auto nepo baby, Dale Earnhardt Jr., picked a fight with the children’s cartoon Bluey.