My son also LOVES chocolate before dinner and often wants ice cream for breakfast, but just because he likes it doesn't mean it is doing him any good! There is absolutely no educational value, language development, or moral lessons learned in this ridiculous, mindless show. I would think that this is a highly important time slot for Treehouse and they have a responsibility to offer children fun but relaxing shows to settle down with... not this frightening fluff! In response to those who don't need education to let their kids watch TV... I agree not everything needs to be a lesson, but it certainly SHOULD be something sane.

I DO NOT AGREE WHAT SO EVER.  My Daughter is 2 yrs old and ABSOLUTLEY loves it.  Every day she asks for it.  She dances and sings to it. 

We both watch it together and it relaxes her before bed time.  I really like the show.

dear parents.there are some good points in this discussion. however i don't see why the night garden is so wrong. i think it plays with imganinations a lot more than most of the regular programing. times are changing there are new generations coming in we should stop trying to censor what we don't understand and learn more about it. i think shows like the night garden and yo gabba gabba can teach the retentive people something as well as their children. 

<<<TAP< TAP, TAP> Is this on , DS likes this show!!!!!!< <<<???

Why do you want to censor/ deny the show he likes???????

Its a TV show...if your kids like it great and if not find something better to do with the time. read them a story, play a game, talk or find something else on.

    I totally agree my two boys love diego dora and backyardagins.

Chebryry:

 

To anyone opposing to this show: Anyone who has a British or celtic background can tell you that we grew up on this type of thing. Our grandparents made up funny names for us and objects etc..and they made their own stories.  I had a weird name given to me.

Some of us are inflicting this on our children, even now. All 3 of mine have various nick-names depending on what we are doing.As for telling silly stories........

Chebryry:

The narrator speaks the whole time in plain english. It it for children 3 and under. None of you ever watch the baby Einstein video's?

If you think this is crap then I suppose all Dr. Seuss books should be banned as well.

Absolutely disagree.

This is a magical and engaging program that my 3 & 5 year old boys love. Through it they learn gentleness and the possibility of small actions.

Compare this (as others on this thread have) to Dora the Explorer: a show with a pumping, 3-second attention span, flashing, video game mentality. "Quick quick, who can guess how we can cross the river? Quick quick. Yes that's right, jump on the turtles' backs"  "Oh no, Boots is coming to steal our stuff." Tell me again that this drivel is a positive educational experience. We learn that bad people are just bad and can't be trusted. We learn that there is a glib answer to every challenge; one that takes us suddenly forward to our destination.  I guess no-one has said that the education being offered is positive that was just my assumption. There is some Spanish I guess.

[For the opposite of the Dora 'Boots' learning moment see the classic Blue's Clues Hippo on the Hill.]

So my kids love ITNG, they push tricycles, wash things with sponges and count to 10 with the Pontipines and Wottingers (whose mother comes on the adventures unlike, say, the great Little Bear). They learn that there is more to life and experience than narrative and glib moralising.

It's magic.

LD

I don't understand the show but my daughter seems to love it. Unsure why? She is 1 years old and gets very excited when the shows comes on. It reminds me of the telatubbies but this show they talk.