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Ask HN: Is there any “PBS Kids” alternatives these days?

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Re: Ask HN: Is there any “PBS Kids” alternatives these days?

#51
Hi,

PBS KIDS is definitely not discontinued. Like other people mentioned, they have pbskids.org, the PBS KIDS Video App, and the PBS KIDS Games app (TONS of games from Wild Kratts and other fun shows) - all free in the app store and no ads. Their video and game content is also downloadable so you can take stuff on road trips. The video app is also available across a lot of streaming devices like ROKU, Apple TV, Amazon TV Fire, Samsung TV, etc.

Re: Ask HN: Is there any “PBS Kids” alternatives these days?

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I'd be a bit careful with that: https://www.wsj.com/articles/peppa-pig-a-pandemic-favorite-h...

haha what’s there to be careful about that? I love that thanks to Peppa Pig we had a little bit of British culture added to our home. Similarly now with Bluey (Aussie show) and us occasionally saying Brekky for breakfast.

Bluey is a great show, my grandkids love it, but my son in law jokingly thinks Bandit creates too high an expectation of what a father can and should be…

Re: Ask HN: Is there any “PBS Kids” alternatives these days?

#53
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I'd be a bit careful with that: https://www.wsj.com/articles/peppa-pig-a-pandemic-favorite-h...

It seems rather odd to be upset that a television programme might teach one’s children to enunciate properly? One is genuinely rather confused as to exactly what it is with which you take umbrage.

This is America, we speak American here. How dare you insinuate my American ain't proper enunciation. How 'bout you umbrage yerself back to whatever country you came from

Re: Ask HN: Is there any “PBS Kids” alternatives these days?

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Those videos seemed a bit over-alarming to be honest. It's about kids spending their bought ingame-currency for ingame things... which is the whole point of buying it. If you don't like it just don't buy the ingame currency for your kids. And then it's about kids being used as unpaid game developpers because they had fun creating games.

My first kid had a real problem with wanting Robux, it’s all he cared about, I dreaded even hearing the name Roblox and never played with him. 10,000 arguments later and he was over it. He introduced our younger kid and stressed to him that “Robux are a scam” on the first day, and it’s now one of my favorite games to play with him and he started on Roblox Studio a few weeks ago. The older one doesn’t play much anymor…

How are they a scam though? If you can buy ingame things that bring you joy it's not wasted money. You just have to set reasonable limits so you don't end up spending 100s on silly things.

Re: Ask HN: Is there any “PBS Kids” alternatives these days?

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My first kid had a real problem with wanting Robux, it’s all he cared about, I dreaded even hearing the name Roblox and never played with him. 10,000 arguments later and he was over it. He introduced our younger kid and stressed to him that “Robux are a scam” on the first day, and it’s now one of my favorite games to play with him and he started on Roblox Studio a few weeks ago. The older one doesn’t play much anymor…

How are they a scam though? If you can buy ingame things that bring you joy it's not wasted money. You just have to set reasonable limits so you don't end up spending 100s on silly things.

Yeah if someone can't handle it in Roblox, they're going to have similar problems almost everywhere.

Good time to learn a lesson.

Re: Ask HN: Is there any “PBS Kids” alternatives these days?

#57
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post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd be a bit careful with that: https://www.wsj.com/articles/peppa-pig-a-pandemic-favorite-h...

haha what’s there to be careful about that? I love that thanks to Peppa Pig we had a little bit of British culture added to our home. Similarly now with Bluey (Aussie show) and us occasionally saying Brekky for breakfast.

Bluey is great. My six-year old now uses "For real life?" as part of his everyday speech.

Re: Ask HN: Is there any “PBS Kids” alternatives these days?

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post #43

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My first kid had a real problem with wanting Robux, it’s all he cared about, I dreaded even hearing the name Roblox and never played with him. 10,000 arguments later and he was over it. He introduced our younger kid and stressed to him that “Robux are a scam” on the first day, and it’s now one of my favorite games to play with him and he started on Roblox Studio a few weeks ago. The older one doesn’t play much anymor…

How are they a scam though? If you can buy ingame things that bring you joy it's not wasted money. You just have to set reasonable limits so you don't end up spending 100s on silly things.

Scam's not the right word but you start to run out of accurate words when you can't get your point across after having entire days ruined arguing with a screaming kid about a R$10,000 Golden Dominus that would cost $100 USD to obtain.

Re: Ask HN: Is there any “PBS Kids” alternatives these days?

#59
Can recommend vsauces curiositybox. Otherwise there are some great puzzle games like the witness, stephens sausage roll, talos principle, linelight, miegakure, braid, return of the obra dinn or more story driven ones like thomas was alone, it takes two, the forgotten city.
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