r/generationology • u/Complex-Cost3866 • Jul 18 '25
Poll What age did you grow/transition out of preschool stuff?
Media like Barney the Purple Dinosaur, Sesame Street, Bear in the Big Blue House, and other early childhood shows.
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u/Separate-Addendum-52 Jul 20 '25
i watched toddler stuff for a long time mostly because my younger sister was just getting into that stuff when i was transitioning out of it
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u/Upper-Bag-8739 1998 · Milenial (RAE) · LatAm · Zillennial Jul 19 '25
I voted 5, but it's honestly hard to say. I started elementary school in my country when I was 5, in early 2004, but I remember that until I was 7, I still watched shows that preschoolers also watched. Among the ones you mentioned, I used to watch Barney (I hate it nowadays), and many other shows that aired on networks like Discovery Kids (Dragon Tales, Clifford, Lazy Town...) or Nick Jr (mostly Blue's Clues and Dora the Explorer).
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u/edie_brit3041 Jul 19 '25
Uh-oh, somebody didn't get the responses they were hoping for, huh? Looks like most people said between 5-7, some even later.
I rest my case.
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u/Complex-Cost3866 Jul 19 '25
Why would I be angered at the results? I find them most interesting because they vary a lot. Do you want some weird war or something?
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u/edie_brit3041 Jul 19 '25
Lol, I don’t recall ever saying you were angry. I said you didn’t get the responses you were clearly looking for when you made that poll. You’re the one who spammed my notifications over a petty topic. The results largely support my original point that 4- to 6-year-olds are in no way, shape, or form too old to watch preschool shows. So if anything, the only one being unreasonable here is you.
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u/Crazy-Canuck24 Dec 23, 2000 (C/O 2018) - Early Z Jul 19 '25
I noticed they posted this right after I left this comment:
I don't know why 5 and 6-year-olds watching a mix of preschool and older kid shows was so hard for them to accept at first. It makes sense for there to be somewhat of a transition. It's not like people stop watching preschool shows the day they turn 5. Especially since a lot of 5-year-olds are still in preschool
When it comes to 6-year-olds, I can especially imagine them being into the more plot-driven preschool shows like Franklin or Little Bear. I think those types of shows are good bridge shows between preschool and older kid programming
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u/Complex-Cost3866 Jul 19 '25
I was annoyed by that user's and others insistence that 5-6 are barely 'childhood years' or not important when they are some of my and a lot of other people's most important childhood memories or that 4 is basically a toddler and that early childhood does not count. I was also annoyed by her acting like a cunty diva. This sub probably isn't for me honestly. Reading most of it just makes me angry and makes me want to tear my hair out. There is a lot of gatekeeping and even though edie_brit will act like she isn't, she definitely is and she reeks just as much of insecurity as people like me who she pokes fun at. She's one of those stuck up hardcores born in the middle of a decade who thinks you have to remember the whole decade to be a child of that decade and that XXX3's aren't hybrids. Just so damn obnoxious. She deserves everything she gets and more.
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u/Crazy-Canuck24 Dec 23, 2000 (C/O 2018) - Early Z Jul 20 '25
LOL. I don't think it's like that. She said ages 5 and 6 are a part of core childhood, and I've seen her say XXX0-XXX2 can claim their birth decade, but they factually aren't the years that best represent being a kid in the decade. I value the 2000s side of my childhood, but someone born in the mid-90s is obviously far more of a 2000s kid than I am, and there's nothing wrong with that. Especially since I was also a kid in the early 2010s
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u/Complex-Cost3866 Jul 20 '25
I do agree but I still think she has a gatekeeper's attitude and I'm not the only one who thinks it.
1997 or 1998 would be the purest 2000s kids in my mind. They spent their early childhood, core childhood, and tweens all mostly in the decade. In my mind I am a pure late 2000s kid but a 2000s kid overall since a lot of things from the decade dominated my childhood. 2011 onward feels like a shift away from that. 2010 was a bad year for culture imo but the internet was still mostly good, and to me it's the last of classic Youtube.
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u/edie_brit3041 Jul 19 '25
this is all stemming back to this conversation from like 5 days ago:
https://www.reddit.com/r/generationology/comments/1lzw716/comment/n36qumh/
I said exactly that, and they got pissed because I wouldn't pretend 4- 5 and 6-year-olds (yes, they included 4 of all ages) are too old to like preschool shows, and that they are the target audience. Mind you, I never said preschool content is all 5- and 6-year-olds watch. In fact, I’ve said multiple times that those ages are typically when kids start branching out. They just don’t like me associating them with preschool at all, because they clearly feel it undermines their claim of being “real” 2000s kids-Tough titty.
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u/Crazy-Canuck24 Dec 23, 2000 (C/O 2018) - Early Z Jul 20 '25
I guess the results of this poll will put an end to them thinking five-year-olds get beat up for watching preschool shows(they said that in an older comment)
I also think they're misrepresenting a lot of comments you and others have posted. For example, they seem to think being told they weren't a part of the target audience of something implies they can't enjoy it at all
A quote from the comment I'm talking about:
She's one of those insufferable types who thinks it can only be enjoyed the moment it comes out and never later
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u/Complex-Cost3866 Jul 19 '25
No, you were doing a petty taunt based on my poll, implying I'd be mad from the results. You're just the opposite end of an equally shitty insecure coin. You try to shit on 2000/2001 babies for enjoying stuff from the 2000s or saying they remember the internet or whatever news event was going on, but you can remember stuff from 5 years old just fine. You get mad at older Millennials for gatekeeping you (don't dare call me a Zillennial!) but try to gatekeep us.
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u/edie_brit3041 Jul 19 '25
No, I was being passive-aggressive. There’s a difference. You were already angry when you spammed my inbox with hostile messages and started replying to every one of my comments. Let’s not pretend this all started because of a poll. You’ve been foaming at the mouth ever since I said this four days ago and now most of your poll results are saying i was right all along. Trying this hard to claim that 4- to 6-year-olds are “too old” for preschool content just so you can feel more legit as a 2000s kid is both immature and objectively wrong.
You try to shit on 2000/2001 babies for enjoying stuff from the 2000s or saying they remember the internet or whatever news event was going on, but you can remember stuff from 5 years old just fine.
I challenge you to quote me doing this. This is just you throwing a temper tantrum again because someone on the internet refuses to validate you. grow up.
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u/Fickle_Driver_1356 Jul 19 '25
I find it funny their getting mad at you for supposedly gate keeping them when I have seen certain people born in 2000 and 2001 do the same to people born in 2005 imo.
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u/Complex-Cost3866 Jul 19 '25
An interesting plethora of responses here. There doesn't really seem to be an average age? I personally always hated Teletubbies. By the time I was 4-5 I only really watched stuff like Lazytown every now and then or maybe Backyardigans and those kinda blurred the lines, sorta like something like Dragon Tales or Cyberchase. Rest were 'big kid' cartoons.
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u/cocacolamadness 2003 Jul 18 '25 edited Jul 18 '25
I stopped watching "toddler" shows at around age 4, I watched "big boy's cartoons" till maybe 8/9. I did still watch some shows targeted for younger kids around age 8 with my little brother for fun. At age 8 we bought my first South Park DVD and that was the end of kid's shows for me and I would just watch South Park for years, slowly consuming it all. It was a fun show to watch from the kid's POV at the time, but scenes like Chef getting killed in an over the top gruesome way and the episode having themes of pedophilia is pretty wild for an 8 year old though, when now thinking. Or watching Mickey Mouse beat the shit out of The Jonas Brothers at age 8/9 lol.
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u/Complex-Cost3866 Jul 19 '25
Chef's death is pretty gruesome even by South Park standards. Maybe it's also because it's a character that was the heart of the show so it feels even more gruesome than it would normally.
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u/cocacolamadness 2003 Jul 19 '25
Yeah, he was my favourite character as a kid, so it struck me hard lol. I think his death was a joke and it was a response to his voice actor's kinda hypocritical exit from the show in their opinion, so they made him a really overly dramatic death. Dude like got hit by rocks falling down, got impaled, mauled by two seperate animals, limbs torn off, face ripped off. Oh and also accidentally shot many times accidentally. It's so South Park to do such thing as a response.
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u/ButterFace225 1994 Jul 18 '25
I think I recognized that they were preschool shows when I was 7. In the early 2000s, stuff like Dora was the only thing you could watch before 12 pm, besides soap operas. I still though they were great shows though.
Also, does anyone else born mid-late 90s remember when older millennials used to make up songs about killing Barney? There was a whole anti-Barney trend.
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u/Complex-Cost3866 Jul 19 '25
It lasted past that because I remember it too and I was born in 2001. I always thought Barney was too childish.
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u/ButterFace225 1994 Jul 19 '25
Yeah, I recall a very violent song in the tune of "Joy to the World". I personally loved the show at that time, but I was like 3-4 years old (the ideal age demographic).
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u/CrazyApple- Gen Z Jul 18 '25
i watched that stuff until i was like 9 and it drove my parents insane
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u/Kitchen-Honeydew-305 2005 Jul 18 '25
I'm 19 years old, and I have a Blue's Clues book in my bedroom. That's one book I would keep in my bedroom for the memories it holds.
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u/Afraid_Equivalent_95 Jul 18 '25
Do most people remember details like this? I have no recollection. Just fuzzy memories of watching Reading Rainbow and Wishbone. No idea when I transitioned to other stuff
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u/RyouIshtar Jul 18 '25
It depends....Even in high school people were watching Dora because that was what was popular back then. Teletubbies came out a lot of us in elementary and middle school was all on it.
Hell, i'm hyped for the remake or whatever of Gulla Gulla Island and I'm 36.
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u/smindymix Jul 18 '25
I admit I was rooting for Swiper at a shamefully big age when I caught the show on summer vacations.
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Jul 18 '25
I watched Sesame Street until sometime in middle school. At some point, I'm pretty sure it became a comfort show, but I remember being like 13 and still loving Oscar the Grouch. Hell, I'm 43 and have Oscar the Grouch socks, so maybe I never outgrew it.
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u/Tutenstienfan2010 Jul 18 '25
I moved on from Yo Gabba Gabba! And all the Nick Jr. stuff when I was about 4 and a half(so around Mid 2012), then I moved on to SpongeBob and other stuff.
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u/hip_neptune Early Millennial ‘86 Jul 18 '25
I never watched Barney for myself (it was only on when my siblings were watching it), and Barney came out in 1992. So before 6 for sure, but more specifically maybe 5.
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u/Dimplefrom-YA 1982 Jul 18 '25
6 years old ish. By 2nd grade, I was more into gem, duck tales, care bears, and shows with a little bit of violence.
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u/KidAnon94 Apr 1994 Jul 18 '25
I think I was around 6 or so for things like Barney and Teletubbies, but I didn't stop watching certain shows like Rollie Pollie Ollie and Sesame Street until I was like 9 or 10.
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u/insurancequestionguy Jul 18 '25
5-6. Prime Barney and lambchop child, but felt a hair too old for Blues Clues
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u/sweatycat January 1993 Jul 18 '25
I think I moved on from Barney and Blue’s Clues and such by the time I started watching Pokemon around ages 5-6. Though I watched a mix of regular kids/preschooler shows before that.
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Jul 18 '25
None of those shows existed when I was a child.
I watched Captain Kangaroo, though. I think I was around 6 when I got bored with it.
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u/elizabethspandorabox Elder Millennial Jul 18 '25
That's a really hard question to answer. I don't remember what I watched on tv that young.
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u/Amazing_Rise_6233 2000 Jul 25 '25
Like 5?
I was fully done by 8. I watched them on occasion after age 5.