Bluey offers a ‘perfect’ illustration of good play for three- to six-year-olds, according to experts.
It’s Saturday morning when the much-anticipated call comes. I pick up the phone to hear the unhurried and unmistakably Australian tones of Joe Brumm, creator and writer of
Bluey, the hit ABC TV kids’ cartoon about a blue heeler family living in Brisbane. Then my heart sinks as it becomes clear this is the worst time to speak to the man who, according to experts, is producing some of the best parental role-modelling Australian TV audiences have ever seen. My children have turned into wild things. Approximately five seconds into the call, my then six-year-old arrives with news of her then two-year-old sister. “She’s knocked over her house, destroyed all the pencils, ruined the coffee table and drawn on her back!”
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Parents interested in enriching their childrenâs lives could learn a thing or two from a pair of playful cartoon dogs â namely Bandit and Chilli, the father and mother from the hit ABC series
Bluey. Child development experts say the show, starring the little blue heeler pup, Bluey, 6, and her sister, Bingo, 4, has a lot to teach us about the importance of play.
âWe donât properly understand what play affords us,â says Marc de Rosnay, professor of child development at the University of Wollongong. âItâs an opportunity to suspend reality and really take on a different way of thinking and experiencing the world. Those are the same skills you need when you start studying classics and understanding the ancient world in history.â
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Itâs Saturday morning when the much-anticipated call comes. I pick up the phone to hear the unhurried and unmistakably Australian tones
of Joe Brumm, creator and writer of
Bluey, the hit ABC TV kidsâ cartoon about a blue heeler family living in Brisbane. Then my heart sinks as it becomes clear this is the worst time to speak to the man who, according to experts, is producing some of the best parental role-modelling Australian TV audiences have ever seen.
My children have turned into wild things. Approximately five seconds into the call, my then six-year-old arrives with news of her then two-year-old sister. âSheâs knocked over her house, destroyed all the pencils, ruined the coffee table and drawn on her back!â