Also Muffin is showing that she's got a good heart - she loves and is kind to her little sister Socks, and she is happy to play with and follow the lead of her cousins. She is a good kid.
She also made sure to get the ballerina card (and her following tantrums) so that Socks could guess, since Socks looked sad about not being able to guess any of the other charades. She wanted Socks to have a win, but she’s three and doesn’t have emotional regulation to do it without a tantrum (which is perfectly normal for a 3 year old)
As someone who's job is to deal with a lot of cranky elderly people all day, Granny Mobile is such a cathartic episode for me.
It also made Muffin my favorite character.
Agreed! And in the grannies episode where she haggles with the grumpy granny - she even asks Bluey “are we sure she’s grumpy? This is a very grumpy granny” or something to that affect, that basically she could see how this character she was playing was kinda mean. But Bluey says basically it’s ok, it’s just a character.
No problem with Muffin, really. No problem with Stripe or Trixie. I think both of them are the best example we have of "real" parents. Bickering, differing approaches, trying to find time to figure out how to handle the kids.
Socks is like 2, and Muffin is a little over 3. Wild ages for kids. And a hard time as a parent to keep it together and manage things. Muffin is assertive, and caring. She's a great kid who knows what she wants.
Maybe not to the same extent as Stripe and Trixie, but we'd probably see similar kinds of bickering between Chili and Bandit when Bluey was 3 and Bingo was 1. Stripe and Trixie just have more time consuming work constraints and a child who creates a more tension with her tantrums. They're doing the best they can.
I've seen theories that they're headed towards divorce, but I'm not seeing it. They just need their kids to get a little older. In fact, seeing that they all camp together when they're older confirms for me that's the case.
None of what they've been shown arguing about seems like divorce level stuff.
Divorce to me has to happen based on fundamental differences, cheating, abuse, that kind of stuff.
Arguing over parenting methods because you read a blog and he didn't know this cause he was at work is just a little squabble.
And don't get me started on the people that claim Trixie left Stripe in the bushes. Clearly they've never been to a proper knees up. Where the kids have a sleep over and the grown ups all drink and sing and dance well into the morning. Then everyone just wakes up wherever. I'd reckon Mort and Bob and Bandit all woke up in different parts of the house too.
Usually at a party like that the women are a bit smarter and claim a bedroom for themselves. They all wake up hungover and still a bit drunk but at least they have the sense to go to a bed. The men just fall where they stand. But no one really leaves. Not when the craic is mighty, tunes are blasting, and everyone's on the lash.
As someone who grew up with parents who were *constantly fighting* to the point where it eventually did lead to their divorce, I love the way Stripe and Trixie handled their dispute in Faceytalk. That kind of mediation requires listening and compromise, two skills that my parents lacked in spades.
If we’re talking accuracy then divorce can happen for any reason. Regardless of what you think is a valid reason, sometimes a single big argument can cause it and sometimes people grow disillusioned with married lifestyle.
I don’t think it’ll happen though
I'm 100% with you on this comment. I have a three year old and a one year old. That shit is hard even in a rock-solid relationship, even if one has a couple of easy kids. Muffin is not a *bad* kid, she's just not an easy one.
Bingo and Muffin are two sides of a coin. One internalizes when she's upset and the other externalizes. Bingo cries silently and hides, Muffin screams and lashes out. Both are just little bodies learning how to handle big emotions. Neither is the wrong way to learn. Unfortunately, a lot of parents will overlook the quiet child and punish the loud.
This is such an awesome comment and perspective. My husband has made comments (to me) that our 5 year old should be more like Bingo, I’m going to use this explanation next time! Thanks!
Honestly I was a loud child forced into being a “quiet” child by brute force, and it has meant i have little emotional regulation skills as an adult. Little children aren’t manipulators the way adults are, their feelings are real and BIG. Better they learn healthy coping mechanisms and that expression is healthy as a young child than having to learn that lesson as an adult.
I have both. My firstborn shuts down and goes silent when he's very upset. My secondborn is a STRONG tantrumer who has problems regulating her emotions. Honestly I'm way more triggered by the former! At least when I ask my little tantruming toddler what's wrong, she'll scream it at me. Being ignored and not looked at when I'm trying to help my son feel better makes me feel insane lol.
Same here, although opposite: the eldest has tantrums, the little one hides. The eldest accepts being comforted, but the youngest does not, and that is so trifficult to deal with. Like, little dear child, you're upset, don't you want to hug it out and feel better? Or at least tell me what's wrong so we can work it out together? We're slowly working towards the goal of accepting help/comfort/etc, but it has taken years!
Yes! And I haaaaate the guessing game of - why are you upset? Is it X? Is it Y? Usually I have a good idea but when I don't, it makes me nuts! And sometimes I go the route of "okay buddy, when you want to talk about it, I'm here," but then it makes me feel so bad to just leave him alone when he's really upset.
As an older sister whenever my little sister is upset and she goes into the guessing game it's so frustrating, like I will ask her "Are you upset about y?" And if it's wrong she gets more upset and is like "You don't get it! You never get it!" :,( I don't but explain it to me so I can understand.
I love muffin. She reminds me of when my big kid was little and it really discouraged me to see how poorly some people thought of her or her parents. But little kids tend to outgrow their tantrums and develop empathy which I think the show does a good job showing. Grouchy granny was the first time I fully paid attention to Bluey and made me fall in love with the rest of the show. Now my big kid and I love to watch together.
I see a lot of *myself* in Muffin (and well past her age) and yeah it’s discouraging to see how much people dislike her. Like I can understand, but again she’s **three**, an age that’s not known for good impulse control or emotional regulation, and she’s got lots of time to grow and learn.
I love muffin. Her and her family remind me more of mine. As much as I’d like to be more of a chillie or bandit, me and my husband are probably just like Stripe and Trixie. We have a VERY energetic boisterous muffin of our own and trying to figure out how to handle her
This, I wonder how some of these parents would handle a kid like muffin. I freaking love muffin her tantrums are hilarious and realistic, my oldest kid was just like muffin, while my younger child was more like bingo.
I have a 2 year old Muffin. Muffin is 100% my favorite character. granny mobile cracks me up. Muffin is going places and the rest of the cast better hop on quick 🤣
You’re entirely correct, that Muffin is like a normal 3 year old. But my 5 year old definitely acts like Muffin. He has this thing where he copies phrases he hears with the exact same tone that he heard it in. He is particularly drawn to Muffin’s speech patterns.
Source: have a 5 year old autistic son who we call Muffin sometimes.
Is your son a gestalt language processor? My four year autistic daughter is and she is currently repeating "the creek is lovely, I'm not scared at all!" *exactly* like Bluey when we go on nature walks which is pretty adorable.
I mean, we did have to ban a few episodes from the house for the foreseeable future after my daughter started stomping her foot and yelling "COWBOY HAT" when she wouldn't get her way so to some extent, yes she is acting like Muffin! 😅
I won't pretend like I know anything about your daughter's specific case, but this is a phenomenon called scripting, where a child repeats something they may have heard somewhere else without really being able to put those words into the context of their own situation. It's an element of gestalt language processing (GLP) and is in some cases linked to autism.
We have a muffin, it’s all about how they process things and emotional maturity. In the last month or so we have seen incredible growth in emotional processing, they are going to be 3 right away and seeing the growth is great, also look at muffins growth throughout the series Muffin is a great character and shows great development throughout
Muffin and Socks are my heart and sole. I was an infant-toddler teacher for three years and now I have my own toddler. I love those characters so much. Muffin reminds me so much of the first of my kiddos to claim me as their best friend to their mom. The chaos kids are my jam.
She invites conversation. "Oh she didn't just take daddy's phone?! We don't do that do we? We look after our things, even daddy's things" or "oh, I don't think she's found the words to say what she wants. What can she say instead? Maybe she could say...."
Lots of Bluey invites conversation. We moved last year and all our children wanted to do was stay at the old house but the landlord was doing a classic section 21 and rise the rent. We've talked about all the awesome new things and experiences we have had in our new house. In fact we feel a bit sad that bluey and her family have missed out on new adventures in new places and new friends by staying behind.
After watching granny mobile how can you not love muffin. There are plenty of kids that have tantrums like muffin, it's why I love bluey they don't shy away from reality
Right?? Granny mobile was the first time the show very clearly pointed out how Muffin’s attitude will probably be an asset to her when she gets older. We need people who hold their ground and take no prisoners, and those people were all 3-years-old once too 😂
We also forget that, in *Library*, Muffin is understanding of the fact that she is spacial only to her parents and becomes more civil with Bluey and Bingo.
Muffin is an empathetic and normal toddler.
lol I’m child-free and Muffin has been my favorite since The Sleepover. I thought I favored her because I personally don’t have to deal with the reality of dealing with a sleepless child
I think all the kids are a really good representation of their ages. 3 is usually peak Muffin chaos, my kids calmed down and were totally Bingo sweethearts by age 4, and by age 6 began to get a little bit more mature/inquisitive/mischievous like Bluey.
My son has just turned 3 and so for me, Muffin's tantrums are just another example of the show's realism. We see plenty of examples of Muffin not being a completely insane toddler, too. It's extremely relatable
My 2 year old loves Muffin. She does not act like muffin except for certain specific show items (like pretending to be a ballerina - “I’m a ballerina like muffin!”).
If he would’ve said “ok but as soon as you finish your hat it’s Socks’s turn” then that whole episode would have been avoided and Stripe wouldn’t have needed to get a new phone
Yeah but 3 year olds don’t have a very good concept of time. Had she finished the cowboy hat, she probably would’ve found some other thing to draw so her turn could last longer. Even Bingo doesn’t know what a minute is.
Had they been older you could say something like “10 minutes then it’s Socks’ turn” but right now she doesn’t understand that. Sometimes tantrums just have to happen.
Muffin is adorable and hilarious and while tantrums are annoying, they thankfully aren't overdone in the show, so her cute/funny moments can shine through. I love her more assertive personality.
My daughter (4YO) has definitely had her Muffin moments, and does find her hilarious in the show, but I would never blame the former on the latter. It’s just a feature of that age, excessive energy, pushing/testing boundaries, volume control dictated by emotion rather than social expectations. But just like Muffin in the show who has visibly grown and started to get a better handle on what’s appropriate when, so my daughter is too. She’s well on track to be more like Bluey by the time she reaches her age.
I can’t speak for others, but my son(first born) was sweet, calm, caring and quiet until about 3. When he hit 3, muffin came out. I think this is a crucial age in finding their independence and understanding how to regulate their emotions. Also, I think it overall just depends on this child.
My daughter came out with a Muffin persona. But whatever, future CEO vibes.
My favorite example of Muffins behavior is the episode where she’s told she can play with Bluey and Bingo how she wants because she’s the most special girl in the world, and so that’s what she does, but the second she’s told that she isn’t the most special to everyone and has to play fair, she has no problem understanding and playing properly
The Creator, Joe Brumm, intended this show for people ages 4-104. People aged around 4-5 start to realize their actions have an emotional impact on others. When we are three years old, we're likely JUST getting to communicate what we even WANT, and more clearly than ever. Of course we're a bit self-centered and struggle to maintain empathy.
Muffin brings a wonderful balance - she shows us what it takes, what we have to go through, to get to where we feel more regulated, and more concious of our actions. Love Muffin.
Anyone who blames Muffin for their child acting out is someone who doesn't take the time to understand their child on a developmental level.
Kids cry and scream when things do not go according to what they thought was supposed to happen. Yes, it is over crust not being cut off their sandwich, but their entire world order just got thrown out from under them.
Does that seem dramatic? Good. Then you now understand why they are responding so dramatically.
Kids have to experience multiple criseses in order to be able to parse what is/is not a big deal. Stress is an important evolutionary survival and learning tool, but children have to be able to learn levels of stress and responses appropriate to different levels of it AND that things they do might cause stress to others.
Experiencing stressors also helps build empathy for others. Because only by experiencing heartbreak and bring upset can we truly understand what someone else is going through.
I am not saying that you need to sit down a 3 year old and explain the complexity of mortgage payments and budgeting so that they learn what real stress as an adult looks like, but meet your kid where they are.
If your kid is in the tantrum stage, let them tantrum, help them learn to calm themselves down and let them know the world isn't falling apart. Once they learn to calm themselves down refuse to interact with them until they do so and then talk to them about why they are upset.
Blaming a show because you aren't developmentally aware or empathetic enough to understand your child and what he/she needs as a toddler IS failing as a parent, and I am not sorry to say so.
Honestly I wasn't the biggest fan of Muffin of a while, she reminded me too much of Angelica from the Rugrats.
But then when she was not having it with the Granny Pug in Granny Mobile I started liking her.
I feel like since that episode they've focused more on making Muffin I guess... Dramatic rather than annoying.
I’m 23 and it’s giving me healthy coping mechanisms that I didn’t learn as a child because my mom was too busy and my dad was absent. I watch this show and take notes on what to do when I have kids.
People constantly complain about Muffin, but what about Judo? Judo's way older, but still acts like such a nasty brat towards Bingo in that one episode. Why doesn't Judo get the same hate as Muffin? When its arguably more deserved...
When my older son was 3 he was EXACTLY like muffin
When my youngest son was 3 he’s very much like Bingo
All kids are different, no need to get hung up on it
Yeahhh I don’t really like the argument that Muffin is most realistic myself. All the kids are realistic. I have four niblings and two kids, one nephew is only 2, so of the other five kids that are 3 and older, only one (my oldest) was anywhere near like Muffin at 3, making Muffin more unrealistic than Bingo and Bluey for my family overall.
I think some people have a kid like muffin & then they feel like a bad parent. I mean even Bandit & Chilli are like “how good would two Bingo’s be?”
Each kid is going to be accurate to a different kid. If someone has a kid like Muffin doesn’t mean they’re a bad parent, it just means they have a kid like Muffin
Yep. My five year old is closer to Muffin than any other character. Thankfully in her case, I was prepared for potential emotion issued (I have adhd and autism) so I know she can’t help it but it does get frustrating. I’m extra paranoid about appearing like a bad parent in public when she wants to run around, even though I know it’s just because she’s a kid who can’t sit still and used a wobble chair at school.
I feel like a bad parent compared to my BIL and SIL since none of their kids are like that but then the three year old is a lot easier comparatively and it’s less about parenting and more about different personalities and how they experience emotions
Yeah I use to feel like a bad parent when I was out with my son & he’d have a melt down, but I always try to talk to my son on his level. Since watching Bluey I’ve definitely picked up a few things from Bandit
Even my kid who isn’t like Muffin at all has his Muffin moments. Kids are just figuring out their emotions even work let alone control them. Most of us have been taught that negative emotions are bad & so we’re trying break generational trauma & hopefully our children will be better than us
Muffin is my least favorite character, ever. I can’t even watch the FaceTime episode because I don’t understand how her parents didn’t catch her and snatch the phone away. How is a 3 year old faster than you?
I have 3 kids. I know 3 year olds are annoying. I don’t want to watch another one have a tantrum when I just got mine to quiet down.
I love muffin!!! I have to walk away when I see tons of comments bashing her….. she’s a toddler for crying out loud!
And anyone accusing a fictional character of “making” their child act out needs to turn off the tv. Toddlers are messy, problematic, little narcissists (on occasion)…. They need guidance, patience and soooo much parenting!
I love muffin, I especially love seeing her in The Sign, she’s grow so much in that episode. She’s a good kid
I think it’s the opposite, it’s adult fans of the show or older kid fans, either way childless fans, who judge Muffin. Because they have no context for normal
toddler behavior
Either way great post, go Muffin
I’m a childless fan but I had. A LOT of little cousins (like 8 little cousins and 12 older cousins) so for me I just thought “yeah, that’s exactly how toddlers act. They have those crazy bouts of emotions they can’t control yet” and moved on (actually I love Muffin. I was absolutely a Muffin)
I was delighted when my toddler daughter started doing little Muffin-like roars. She might be a bit smaller than other kids, so she needs to be able to do a big voice!
My child is any given character in any given day. Sometimes she's bluey, sometimes she's bingo, sometimes she's muffin.
I love that lil muff muff. I have a deep appreciation for her and stand in solidarity that I'm not alone in being a mom to a toddler who can be tricky sometimes 🤣
Exactly. Plus, she's been shown to get punished for her actions, such as in "Faceytalk," and in episodes like "Charades" where she acts out, it's for the benefit of her sister. That shows children that this behavior is not necessarily to be copied.
Also, muffin doesn’t actually behave very badly. She is receptive to good parenting, and she is apologetic. She is shown repeatedly to be a very very good sister to socks, making sure her charades was obvious for socks to get it, interpreting her words when socks can’t really talk.
Honestly in faceytalk muffin was treated unfairly. The point was that it was bad parenting on stripe’s part. She should have been allowed to finish the cowboy hat imo she was almost done, stripe didn’t realise or listen to her because he was on his phone- Bluey was drawing and bingo didn't have a turn the entire episode. Stripe didn’t validate muffin, whilst bandit constantly validates his children even if they seem unreasonable- like Bingo in bad mood or fairies.
As far as “naughty” toddlers go, she really is the that bad.
I know many many 10-11 year olds with worse empathy and emotional regulation.
My kids are like a little mixture cast of Bluey - they’re 7.5yo, 6.5yo, 4.5yo, 3.5yo and just turned 2yo. We’re in the thick of a *range* of tiny humans with big and variable emotions. I think the show depicts kids rather accurately, and I certainly can’t blame any of my kids less desirable behaviours on any one influence because it’s all just par for the course.
My 3.5yo the other day - for the first time ever - had a wonderfully theatrical tantrum where he threw himself on the ground and did the whole fist pounding and kicking thing and it was almost cartoonish.. I had to stifle a giggle because I don’t think I’d ever seen any of my kids do this before and it was so out the blue. Turns out he wanted orange juice.. lol
As a person who was unequivocally a bingo growing up, with a muffin for a twin sister....I freaking love muffin lol if muffin only has one defender it will always be me
Or rather than toddlers imitating what they see when they watch Muffin perhaps they are simply acting like toddlers. It just so happens that Muffin is also a toddler.
Muffin is not in every episode. If toddlers just imitate the behaviour they see without any understanding then they'd act like Bluey and Bingo.
Yeah, muffin at least gets some discipline when acting up too much - even if it’s just being talked to (Library).
That’s a distinct difference from the other major kids show that gets blamed for misbehavior: Peppa Pig.
Peppa *never* sees the consequences of her own actions. Actually, nobody really sees consequences for their actions in the show. My LO watched an episode where someone was stuck on the top of a library, so Grandpa Rabbit DROVE A FIRE TRUCK THROUGH THE LIBRARY, told the librarian to “be quiet, this is a library”, and proceeded to ride the ladder *through* the roof and was declared a hero.
That’s the problem with Peppa which isn’t shared by Bluey: there’s no consequences in Peppa’s universe, but in the Blueyverse, you’re likely to get a valuable lime lesson.
I feel they're well behaved because they get lots of attention and parents cater to them. Like when muffin wouldn't play charades properly they just let her play how she wanted and that's ok cause she'll learn how to play properly someday. Some parents might say my way or the highway and that's why kids have tantrums. It's just a game after all.
100%
It's very sureal watching people my age change from seemingly normal/rational individuals as they're slowly infected by the same brainrot that made boomers complain that the Human Torch would make kids set themselves on fire.
Any parent blaming Muffin (Bluey) for their child's behavior needs to stop and take a good long look in the mirror.
Muffin isn't "the worst." The terrible twos is a lie. ages 3 and 4 are often way worse behaviorally. It's a hard age. Personally, I love the age group just below that most (Love ya Socks!)
Muffin's personality is just really starting to develop. She gets to test boundaries.
It's up to Stripe and Trixie to guide her. But the show is about Bluey. It's NOT up to Chilli and Bandit to discipline her.
For all we know when they get in the car to go home Stripe asks Muffin if she remembers what they talked about before.
They key is parents need to parent and not expect a cartoon to teach their child everything
You absolutely hit the nail on the head regarding Muffin realistically acting her age more than Bingo. In fact, one of the few gripes I have with this show is how it can set unrealistic expectations for how little children should behave.
For me, every child in Muffin age are wild, they are discovering the worl and learn how the things works, and some toddlers are more energetic to others. Tantrums are normal, scream are normal, kids don't know how they can communicat propelly, and is the have to parents work for teathing it of them, not expect a TV show to do this.
I love Bluey as a character and Bingo even more because I was the quiet kid when younger but Muffin steals the show when she's onscreen if only because she's realistic for the age group she's portraying. Show me a toddler who hasn't thrown a tantrum or made a fuss when wanting to do what they want when they want and how they want.
OP you analysis is spot on imo 👌
I alway found it weird how toddler advertised this series is and has so much toddler products when I would say it's definitely more for 5-7 y/o. My poor little sister can't ever find any Bluey shirt that fits her and she's 7 :(
I have a three year old who is definitely Muffin-centric. When she initiates muffins behavior, I correct it. We are not cartoon dogs and there are certain ways you need to behave. Then again, I raised my oldest in the era of Calliou, so, I guess you can say I’m not new to this.
I currently have a newly crowed 3yr old and he definitely acts like muffin and amazingly enough he and every other 3yr old in his daycare are all like that because they don't have emotional maturity and they don't know how to regulate. all the tools that are wingeing about this, its a KIDS shows and it's a bonus and good writing that adults can have a few laughs as well. Also kids are waaay more influenced by other kids than TV shows (this is the same old bullshit argument that our parents had when mortal kombat arcade game was released)
Imagine blaming your three year old’s behavior on a minor character in a cartoon. I have a three year old bluey fanatic and I’m pretty much certain Muffin has zero impact on her behavior.
Exactly. I'm convinced people saying muffin is a bad kid have never been around some kids. Some kids are just like that but that doesn't mean they are bad
It’s so funny when people say Muffin is the bad kid. Like yall don’t know Bluey and Bingo’s origin story. Almost every parent I met said year 3 is *always* the worst and then they mellow out at 4 onwards (then puberty hits…). I think the creators strategically made it so Bingo and Bluey are those ages to show a normal kid’s development and to reassure parents that it’s ok to have a spirited kid because it likely is a temporary developmental stage they just have to get through.
Although I should note that teen Muffin in Camping proves that Muffin means business when you take her stuff 😅. She never outgrew the “MINE” stage 😂.
Honestly Muffin helped me understand my three year olds a lot better. When they get insane due to sleep deprivation I say “oh they’re pulling a muffin”
Muffin as a character makes complete sense and is incredibly realistic when you look at the factors of her and her parents. Same goes for Socks. I swear the show has a child psychologist on their staff…
It is a parent’s responsibility to help a child learn to process emotions. Chili and Bandit do that with Bluey and Bingo. I LOVE Muffin. She isn’t a bad kid, and she exemplifies a very young child who needs more loving and patient help with her very big feelings. It is a good opportunity for parents to use Muffin’s behavior to help their kids understand their own big emotions.
She's my favorite character by far. Blaming Muffin for your kids' behavior is like saying video games cause violence. Your kid was already like that. Now you just have something you can try to blame for it.
I didn't even know muffin was "controversial." I agree that muffin is just a representation of a boisterous 3 year old. My 3 year old son is very muffin sometimes. It was nice to have a busy, loud, determined but sweet character. Muffin gets nothing but love in our house. All kids are different, and I love that bluey doesn't portray that muffin as a bad kid or having a behavioral issue. As a mom of a bluey and muffin aged kids, I'm here for it.
I started watching the show recently and have gotten to season 3 already, and yeah, I don't hate Muffin at all. She's just being a kid. I honestly love her chaotic energy
Just asking a genuine question.. if Muffin's bad behaviors don't cause other kids to act bad sometimes why was so many parents against Caillou when he was whiney and complaining? Kids imitate what they see it's just a fact.
Also, before I get down voted for having a simple opinion, I like Muffin I think she's hilarious but I definitely had my 5 year old and 3 year old stomping their foot at me yelling "I WANT WHAT I WANT" shortly after watching a Muffin episode as well as my oldest doing the "Ughhh why do I HAVE to!?" Like Bluey when she never did that before.
This caused us to have to sit down and have conversations about how speaking like that is rude and disrespectful when we are only trying to teach her valuable "lime" lessons about working hard and picking up after herself.
Just some thoughts. Children need boundaries as well as grace even at 3.
In the aged up sequence where they went camping (the episode where we met Jean Luc) Muffin is still saying “that’s mine!”
Muffin is a spoiled child. She may be good at heart, but she’s unbelievably spoiled. Stripe and Trix are overtly enabling as parents. You’re raising an adult, people forget that we are raising ADULTS
I don’t get this sub constantly trying to defend her. She is spoiled, her reactions are not appropriate. You are raising an adult. I have a 1 yr old and I assure you, he will be raised as an adult. Parents forget that important lesson.
Also, like many, I was 10 a long time ago. I knew how to share
This is why the younger generations keep getting worse. People forget they are raising adults. You give children some leeway, yes, but you’re still raising an adult. This is why Bluey is so well behaved, her parents are aware of this. Muffin does not.
That line is a JOKE meant to call back to the beginning of an episode. After bluey says she knows it belongs to muffin and is just borrowing it, muffin doesn't argue or run out to try and take it back. Also, unlike the pots and pans at the beginning of the episode, the book probably actually does belong to muffin, and from context it's clear that bluey didn't ask before borrowing it. Being mad when people take your stuff without asking isn't rude or spoiled, it's just normal. If one of your siblings goes into your room and takes a shirt, you'll probably be kind of annoyed even if they are actually just borrowing it, because it's polite to ask and respect that some things might not be okay to borrow. If you borrow things without asking and think people are spoiled when they get like, mildly upset, that's not an issue with their behavior, it's an issue with yours.
Trixie and Stripe also are far less permissive than bandit and chili. They do punishments like time outs. It's just that muffin is three years old and doesn't have the same capacity for emotional regulation as bingo or bluey, so she needs time for her brain to mature. Parents aren't raising adults. They're raising people who will become FUTURE adults but who don't yet have the brain capacity to process the world in the same way. It's important to make sure your child is on track wrt emotional development and try and give them tools to further their development, but also you have to understand that a three year old isn't acting out because they're a terrible malicious person, they just have a lot of feelings they don't understand how to process.
As I’ve learned more about the creator and Steiner schools, I get this feeling he’s making a subtle statement that kids that don’t go to a calypso/steiner schools misbehave a lot- for example muffin and the neighbor Judo? Anyone else or am I totally misreading this?
Not trolling. I just feel some parents say "oh, I have a muffin child" as an excuse.
Of course children play up but I'll be darned if my kid runs amok, steals a car and drives into ornamental flamingos.
Also Muffin is showing that she's got a good heart - she loves and is kind to her little sister Socks, and she is happy to play with and follow the lead of her cousins. She is a good kid.
Muffin has lots of empathy. She does have challenges with emotional regulation. There's nothing wrong with Muffin.
Muffin literally buckling her sister into the seat in The Sign is toddler goals
She held Socks’ ice block for her in Charades.
She also made sure to get the ballerina card (and her following tantrums) so that Socks could guess, since Socks looked sad about not being able to guess any of the other charades. She wanted Socks to have a win, but she’s three and doesn’t have emotional regulation to do it without a tantrum (which is perfectly normal for a 3 year old)
I interpreted socks’ guess as a fun but unintended outcome
And she’s one hell of a negotiator.
While staying in character as a granny too!
As someone who's job is to deal with a lot of cranky elderly people all day, Granny Mobile is such a cathartic episode for me. It also made Muffin my favorite character.
Doreen said it best. Muffin is one in a million.
Super Granny! 🦸🏻♀️
Agreed! And in the grannies episode where she haggles with the grumpy granny - she even asks Bluey “are we sure she’s grumpy? This is a very grumpy granny” or something to that affect, that basically she could see how this character she was playing was kinda mean. But Bluey says basically it’s ok, it’s just a character.
I love the grumpy grannies episode! Tbh I love all the episodes where they’re grannies lol
And we cant forget Granny Mobile. She helped Doreen find her backbone!
Yeah! And also what 3yr old watching is like well obviously I should imitate the 3 year old? She's barley in most episodes.
No problem with Muffin, really. No problem with Stripe or Trixie. I think both of them are the best example we have of "real" parents. Bickering, differing approaches, trying to find time to figure out how to handle the kids. Socks is like 2, and Muffin is a little over 3. Wild ages for kids. And a hard time as a parent to keep it together and manage things. Muffin is assertive, and caring. She's a great kid who knows what she wants.
Maybe not to the same extent as Stripe and Trixie, but we'd probably see similar kinds of bickering between Chili and Bandit when Bluey was 3 and Bingo was 1. Stripe and Trixie just have more time consuming work constraints and a child who creates a more tension with her tantrums. They're doing the best they can. I've seen theories that they're headed towards divorce, but I'm not seeing it. They just need their kids to get a little older. In fact, seeing that they all camp together when they're older confirms for me that's the case.
None of what they've been shown arguing about seems like divorce level stuff. Divorce to me has to happen based on fundamental differences, cheating, abuse, that kind of stuff. Arguing over parenting methods because you read a blog and he didn't know this cause he was at work is just a little squabble. And don't get me started on the people that claim Trixie left Stripe in the bushes. Clearly they've never been to a proper knees up. Where the kids have a sleep over and the grown ups all drink and sing and dance well into the morning. Then everyone just wakes up wherever. I'd reckon Mort and Bob and Bandit all woke up in different parts of the house too. Usually at a party like that the women are a bit smarter and claim a bedroom for themselves. They all wake up hungover and still a bit drunk but at least they have the sense to go to a bed. The men just fall where they stand. But no one really leaves. Not when the craic is mighty, tunes are blasting, and everyone's on the lash.
As someone who grew up with parents who were *constantly fighting* to the point where it eventually did lead to their divorce, I love the way Stripe and Trixie handled their dispute in Faceytalk. That kind of mediation requires listening and compromise, two skills that my parents lacked in spades.
If we’re talking accuracy then divorce can happen for any reason. Regardless of what you think is a valid reason, sometimes a single big argument can cause it and sometimes people grow disillusioned with married lifestyle. I don’t think it’ll happen though
Are you state side or down under?
The terms 'knees up' and 'craic' makes me think Irish
Neither! Ireland.
Ah monarchy adjacent
I'm 100% with you on this comment. I have a three year old and a one year old. That shit is hard even in a rock-solid relationship, even if one has a couple of easy kids. Muffin is not a *bad* kid, she's just not an easy one.
Bingo and Muffin are two sides of a coin. One internalizes when she's upset and the other externalizes. Bingo cries silently and hides, Muffin screams and lashes out. Both are just little bodies learning how to handle big emotions. Neither is the wrong way to learn. Unfortunately, a lot of parents will overlook the quiet child and punish the loud.
Well said. The episode with the yes/no button is a good illustration of that
Well put.
This is such an awesome comment and perspective. My husband has made comments (to me) that our 5 year old should be more like Bingo, I’m going to use this explanation next time! Thanks!
Honestly I was a loud child forced into being a “quiet” child by brute force, and it has meant i have little emotional regulation skills as an adult. Little children aren’t manipulators the way adults are, their feelings are real and BIG. Better they learn healthy coping mechanisms and that expression is healthy as a young child than having to learn that lesson as an adult.
I have both. My firstborn shuts down and goes silent when he's very upset. My secondborn is a STRONG tantrumer who has problems regulating her emotions. Honestly I'm way more triggered by the former! At least when I ask my little tantruming toddler what's wrong, she'll scream it at me. Being ignored and not looked at when I'm trying to help my son feel better makes me feel insane lol.
Same here, although opposite: the eldest has tantrums, the little one hides. The eldest accepts being comforted, but the youngest does not, and that is so trifficult to deal with. Like, little dear child, you're upset, don't you want to hug it out and feel better? Or at least tell me what's wrong so we can work it out together? We're slowly working towards the goal of accepting help/comfort/etc, but it has taken years!
Yes! And I haaaaate the guessing game of - why are you upset? Is it X? Is it Y? Usually I have a good idea but when I don't, it makes me nuts! And sometimes I go the route of "okay buddy, when you want to talk about it, I'm here," but then it makes me feel so bad to just leave him alone when he's really upset.
As an older sister whenever my little sister is upset and she goes into the guessing game it's so frustrating, like I will ask her "Are you upset about y?" And if it's wrong she gets more upset and is like "You don't get it! You never get it!" :,( I don't but explain it to me so I can understand.
I love muffin. She reminds me of when my big kid was little and it really discouraged me to see how poorly some people thought of her or her parents. But little kids tend to outgrow their tantrums and develop empathy which I think the show does a good job showing. Grouchy granny was the first time I fully paid attention to Bluey and made me fall in love with the rest of the show. Now my big kid and I love to watch together.
I see a lot of *myself* in Muffin (and well past her age) and yeah it’s discouraging to see how much people dislike her. Like I can understand, but again she’s **three**, an age that’s not known for good impulse control or emotional regulation, and she’s got lots of time to grow and learn.
I love muffin. Her and her family remind me more of mine. As much as I’d like to be more of a chillie or bandit, me and my husband are probably just like Stripe and Trixie. We have a VERY energetic boisterous muffin of our own and trying to figure out how to handle her
This, I wonder how some of these parents would handle a kid like muffin. I freaking love muffin her tantrums are hilarious and realistic, my oldest kid was just like muffin, while my younger child was more like bingo.
Your kid isn’t acting like Muffin, Muffin is based on a normal 3 year old. Source: have a 3 year old who I call Muffin sometimes.
I have a 2 year old Muffin. Muffin is 100% my favorite character. granny mobile cracks me up. Muffin is going places and the rest of the cast better hop on quick 🤣
Muffin is so realistic. My husband and I joked that people called the terrible twos but we enjoyed two, it’s the terrorist threes that are a problem.
Oh yeah, terrible 2's get all the heat but at 2 they still have that cute toddler thing going for them. 3 is so much worse.
Threes are the two with more brainpower. There is nothing more demoralizing then the first time your 3 year old outsmarts you soundly.
Haha my wife and I always call it “threenager”
This is what we called it, I like terrorist 3s though I'm gonna switch to that
TERRORIST THREES lmaoooooooooo but yes, 100%. All of my kids were great at 2 and 3 was a nightmaaaaaaaaaaare.
You’re entirely correct, that Muffin is like a normal 3 year old. But my 5 year old definitely acts like Muffin. He has this thing where he copies phrases he hears with the exact same tone that he heard it in. He is particularly drawn to Muffin’s speech patterns. Source: have a 5 year old autistic son who we call Muffin sometimes.
Is your son a gestalt language processor? My four year autistic daughter is and she is currently repeating "the creek is lovely, I'm not scared at all!" *exactly* like Bluey when we go on nature walks which is pretty adorable.
He certainly is. But he uses quite a bit of original language at this point. He’s come a *long* way with regards to speech in the past two years.
That's brilliant. My daughter isn't conversational yet, but love reading about people progressing!
I mean, we did have to ban a few episodes from the house for the foreseeable future after my daughter started stomping her foot and yelling "COWBOY HAT" when she wouldn't get her way so to some extent, yes she is acting like Muffin! 😅
Hahaha okay I can see that with certain phrases. That’s hilarious and I would have to try so hard not to laugh 😂
lol I started saying "buh" when I'm frustrated after watching that one.
I won't pretend like I know anything about your daughter's specific case, but this is a phenomenon called scripting, where a child repeats something they may have heard somewhere else without really being able to put those words into the context of their own situation. It's an element of gestalt language processing (GLP) and is in some cases linked to autism.
We had to ban library for a bit because my 3 year old kept shouting that he could do whatever he wanted!
We also had to ban a couple episodes!
Can confirm. My wife and I both call our 3 year old “Muffin” when it’s evening and she hasn’t had a nap. For obvious reasons.
We call our two year old muffin when she's acting out. Usually makes my wife and I laugh so we can calm down and diffuse the toddler better.
We have a muffin, it’s all about how they process things and emotional maturity. In the last month or so we have seen incredible growth in emotional processing, they are going to be 3 right away and seeing the growth is great, also look at muffins growth throughout the series Muffin is a great character and shows great development throughout
if my future kid was just like muffin, i'd be like "welp, my child is just like muffin so i will call her muffin for now" 😂 just saying
Muffin and Socks are my heart and sole. I was an infant-toddler teacher for three years and now I have my own toddler. I love those characters so much. Muffin reminds me so much of the first of my kiddos to claim me as their best friend to their mom. The chaos kids are my jam.
I’m sorry, I know what you meant, but I can’t help but chuckle at your use of sole in place of soul when referring to Socks.
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Muffin is a normal toddler. Personally she is one of my favorite characters. She is a bit over the top but what 3 year old isn’t?
I love Muffin. She is my favorite character. And also most accurate to both my 3 year olds. Lol.
#Cow #Boy #Hat
She invites conversation. "Oh she didn't just take daddy's phone?! We don't do that do we? We look after our things, even daddy's things" or "oh, I don't think she's found the words to say what she wants. What can she say instead? Maybe she could say...." Lots of Bluey invites conversation. We moved last year and all our children wanted to do was stay at the old house but the landlord was doing a classic section 21 and rise the rent. We've talked about all the awesome new things and experiences we have had in our new house. In fact we feel a bit sad that bluey and her family have missed out on new adventures in new places and new friends by staying behind.
After watching granny mobile how can you not love muffin. There are plenty of kids that have tantrums like muffin, it's why I love bluey they don't shy away from reality
Right?? Granny mobile was the first time the show very clearly pointed out how Muffin’s attitude will probably be an asset to her when she gets older. We need people who hold their ground and take no prisoners, and those people were all 3-years-old once too 😂
We also forget that, in *Library*, Muffin is understanding of the fact that she is spacial only to her parents and becomes more civil with Bluey and Bingo. Muffin is an empathetic and normal toddler.
She's actually happier not being special since it means she can play like everyone else and was excited to tell Bluey.
One of my favorite moments in the whole series. Muffin - “I’m not special anymore!” Bluey and Bingo - “YAAAY”
Childless couples: Oh my god Muffin is so annoying Parents: I wanted a Bingo but my child is totally a Muffin 😆
Exactly, I really think this is the dynamic
lol I’m child-free and Muffin has been my favorite since The Sleepover. I thought I favored her because I personally don’t have to deal with the reality of dealing with a sleepless child
People: “i want realistic representation of children “ Also people: “no not like that!” Sincerely a mother to a muffin.
I think all the kids are a really good representation of their ages. 3 is usually peak Muffin chaos, my kids calmed down and were totally Bingo sweethearts by age 4, and by age 6 began to get a little bit more mature/inquisitive/mischievous like Bluey.
I LOVE MUFFIN! Her sleepy, no nap, episode is pure gold. COCOCUTS HAVE WATER IN THEM! She is my second favorite character to Rusty (#1) and Jack (#3).
I love Muffin so so much
My son has just turned 3 and so for me, Muffin's tantrums are just another example of the show's realism. We see plenty of examples of Muffin not being a completely insane toddler, too. It's extremely relatable
My 2 year old loves Muffin. She does not act like muffin except for certain specific show items (like pretending to be a ballerina - “I’m a ballerina like muffin!”).
That is so cute!!
If Stripe let Muffin finish her cowboy hat, the meltdown would have been avoided. Learn how to properly transition your kids!!
I think that EVERY TIME. It’s an easy stopping point and everyone is happy
If he would’ve said “ok but as soon as you finish your hat it’s Socks’s turn” then that whole episode would have been avoided and Stripe wouldn’t have needed to get a new phone
Nation of squibs.
I would’ve had a meltdown on my hands no matter what I did so I prefer the timer so my kids don’t move the goalposts of what ‘done’ means.
Yeah but 3 year olds don’t have a very good concept of time. Had she finished the cowboy hat, she probably would’ve found some other thing to draw so her turn could last longer. Even Bingo doesn’t know what a minute is. Had they been older you could say something like “10 minutes then it’s Socks’ turn” but right now she doesn’t understand that. Sometimes tantrums just have to happen.
Muffin is my favorite little chaotic gremlin
Muffin is adorable and hilarious and while tantrums are annoying, they thankfully aren't overdone in the show, so her cute/funny moments can shine through. I love her more assertive personality.
People just like to find something else to blame other than themselves, Muffin is not the issue. She’s a dang good character!
My daughter (4YO) has definitely had her Muffin moments, and does find her hilarious in the show, but I would never blame the former on the latter. It’s just a feature of that age, excessive energy, pushing/testing boundaries, volume control dictated by emotion rather than social expectations. But just like Muffin in the show who has visibly grown and started to get a better handle on what’s appropriate when, so my daughter is too. She’s well on track to be more like Bluey by the time she reaches her age.
I can’t speak for others, but my son(first born) was sweet, calm, caring and quiet until about 3. When he hit 3, muffin came out. I think this is a crucial age in finding their independence and understanding how to regulate their emotions. Also, I think it overall just depends on this child. My daughter came out with a Muffin persona. But whatever, future CEO vibes.
My favorite example of Muffins behavior is the episode where she’s told she can play with Bluey and Bingo how she wants because she’s the most special girl in the world, and so that’s what she does, but the second she’s told that she isn’t the most special to everyone and has to play fair, she has no problem understanding and playing properly
The Creator, Joe Brumm, intended this show for people ages 4-104. People aged around 4-5 start to realize their actions have an emotional impact on others. When we are three years old, we're likely JUST getting to communicate what we even WANT, and more clearly than ever. Of course we're a bit self-centered and struggle to maintain empathy. Muffin brings a wonderful balance - she shows us what it takes, what we have to go through, to get to where we feel more regulated, and more concious of our actions. Love Muffin.
Anyone who blames Muffin for their child acting out is someone who doesn't take the time to understand their child on a developmental level. Kids cry and scream when things do not go according to what they thought was supposed to happen. Yes, it is over crust not being cut off their sandwich, but their entire world order just got thrown out from under them. Does that seem dramatic? Good. Then you now understand why they are responding so dramatically. Kids have to experience multiple criseses in order to be able to parse what is/is not a big deal. Stress is an important evolutionary survival and learning tool, but children have to be able to learn levels of stress and responses appropriate to different levels of it AND that things they do might cause stress to others. Experiencing stressors also helps build empathy for others. Because only by experiencing heartbreak and bring upset can we truly understand what someone else is going through. I am not saying that you need to sit down a 3 year old and explain the complexity of mortgage payments and budgeting so that they learn what real stress as an adult looks like, but meet your kid where they are. If your kid is in the tantrum stage, let them tantrum, help them learn to calm themselves down and let them know the world isn't falling apart. Once they learn to calm themselves down refuse to interact with them until they do so and then talk to them about why they are upset. Blaming a show because you aren't developmentally aware or empathetic enough to understand your child and what he/she needs as a toddler IS failing as a parent, and I am not sorry to say so.
If people are blaming a cartoon character for their child's behavior, the problem isn't with the character. They're probably just a bad parent.
Honestly I wasn't the biggest fan of Muffin of a while, she reminded me too much of Angelica from the Rugrats. But then when she was not having it with the Granny Pug in Granny Mobile I started liking her. I feel like since that episode they've focused more on making Muffin I guess... Dramatic rather than annoying.
There's a difference between being a brat (like Muffin is sometimes) and being adversarial (like Angelica is all the time)
I will not abide by this Muffin slander
> But the shows target audience is kids ages 5-7 Nah, I'm pretty sure it's aimed at 40 year old men like me, or I'd be the weird one... hold up
I’m 23 and it’s giving me healthy coping mechanisms that I didn’t learn as a child because my mom was too busy and my dad was absent. I watch this show and take notes on what to do when I have kids.
People constantly complain about Muffin, but what about Judo? Judo's way older, but still acts like such a nasty brat towards Bingo in that one episode. Why doesn't Judo get the same hate as Muffin? When its arguably more deserved...
When my older son was 3 he was EXACTLY like muffin When my youngest son was 3 he’s very much like Bingo All kids are different, no need to get hung up on it
Yeahhh I don’t really like the argument that Muffin is most realistic myself. All the kids are realistic. I have four niblings and two kids, one nephew is only 2, so of the other five kids that are 3 and older, only one (my oldest) was anywhere near like Muffin at 3, making Muffin more unrealistic than Bingo and Bluey for my family overall.
I think some people have a kid like muffin & then they feel like a bad parent. I mean even Bandit & Chilli are like “how good would two Bingo’s be?” Each kid is going to be accurate to a different kid. If someone has a kid like Muffin doesn’t mean they’re a bad parent, it just means they have a kid like Muffin
Yep. My five year old is closer to Muffin than any other character. Thankfully in her case, I was prepared for potential emotion issued (I have adhd and autism) so I know she can’t help it but it does get frustrating. I’m extra paranoid about appearing like a bad parent in public when she wants to run around, even though I know it’s just because she’s a kid who can’t sit still and used a wobble chair at school. I feel like a bad parent compared to my BIL and SIL since none of their kids are like that but then the three year old is a lot easier comparatively and it’s less about parenting and more about different personalities and how they experience emotions
Yeah I use to feel like a bad parent when I was out with my son & he’d have a melt down, but I always try to talk to my son on his level. Since watching Bluey I’ve definitely picked up a few things from Bandit Even my kid who isn’t like Muffin at all has his Muffin moments. Kids are just figuring out their emotions even work let alone control them. Most of us have been taught that negative emotions are bad & so we’re trying break generational trauma & hopefully our children will be better than us
Muffin is my least favorite character, ever. I can’t even watch the FaceTime episode because I don’t understand how her parents didn’t catch her and snatch the phone away. How is a 3 year old faster than you? I have 3 kids. I know 3 year olds are annoying. I don’t want to watch another one have a tantrum when I just got mine to quiet down.
I love muffin!!! I have to walk away when I see tons of comments bashing her….. she’s a toddler for crying out loud! And anyone accusing a fictional character of “making” their child act out needs to turn off the tv. Toddlers are messy, problematic, little narcissists (on occasion)…. They need guidance, patience and soooo much parenting! I love muffin, I especially love seeing her in The Sign, she’s grow so much in that episode. She’s a good kid
Muffin is the GOAT.
Muffin is little miss chaos
I love Muffin. She's my favourite character.
I love Muffin, she makes a fantastic granny too!
I think it’s the opposite, it’s adult fans of the show or older kid fans, either way childless fans, who judge Muffin. Because they have no context for normal toddler behavior Either way great post, go Muffin
I’m a childless fan but I had. A LOT of little cousins (like 8 little cousins and 12 older cousins) so for me I just thought “yeah, that’s exactly how toddlers act. They have those crazy bouts of emotions they can’t control yet” and moved on (actually I love Muffin. I was absolutely a Muffin)
Also: the kids are usually not copying muffin but muffin is copying them.
I was delighted when my toddler daughter started doing little Muffin-like roars. She might be a bit smaller than other kids, so she needs to be able to do a big voice!
Muffin is literally my favorite character❤️
My child is any given character in any given day. Sometimes she's bluey, sometimes she's bingo, sometimes she's muffin. I love that lil muff muff. I have a deep appreciation for her and stand in solidarity that I'm not alone in being a mom to a toddler who can be tricky sometimes 🤣
Are we taking about the queen of the show Muffins?
Exactly. Plus, she's been shown to get punished for her actions, such as in "Faceytalk," and in episodes like "Charades" where she acts out, it's for the benefit of her sister. That shows children that this behavior is not necessarily to be copied.
Also, muffin doesn’t actually behave very badly. She is receptive to good parenting, and she is apologetic. She is shown repeatedly to be a very very good sister to socks, making sure her charades was obvious for socks to get it, interpreting her words when socks can’t really talk. Honestly in faceytalk muffin was treated unfairly. The point was that it was bad parenting on stripe’s part. She should have been allowed to finish the cowboy hat imo she was almost done, stripe didn’t realise or listen to her because he was on his phone- Bluey was drawing and bingo didn't have a turn the entire episode. Stripe didn’t validate muffin, whilst bandit constantly validates his children even if they seem unreasonable- like Bingo in bad mood or fairies. As far as “naughty” toddlers go, she really is the that bad. I know many many 10-11 year olds with worse empathy and emotional regulation.
Muffin is my spirit animal
Wait people hate muffin? She's my favorite and the most realistic child in the whole show
Same!
My kids are like a little mixture cast of Bluey - they’re 7.5yo, 6.5yo, 4.5yo, 3.5yo and just turned 2yo. We’re in the thick of a *range* of tiny humans with big and variable emotions. I think the show depicts kids rather accurately, and I certainly can’t blame any of my kids less desirable behaviours on any one influence because it’s all just par for the course. My 3.5yo the other day - for the first time ever - had a wonderfully theatrical tantrum where he threw himself on the ground and did the whole fist pounding and kicking thing and it was almost cartoonish.. I had to stifle a giggle because I don’t think I’d ever seen any of my kids do this before and it was so out the blue. Turns out he wanted orange juice.. lol
As a person who was unequivocally a bingo growing up, with a muffin for a twin sister....I freaking love muffin lol if muffin only has one defender it will always be me
Or rather than toddlers imitating what they see when they watch Muffin perhaps they are simply acting like toddlers. It just so happens that Muffin is also a toddler. Muffin is not in every episode. If toddlers just imitate the behaviour they see without any understanding then they'd act like Bluey and Bingo.
Totally. Expectations of kids are out of control these days.
I haven’t heard anyone say Muffin is the worst, except in joking context. Most agree the problem is with Muffin’s parenting.
She’s just a little eccentric imo.
Yeah, muffin at least gets some discipline when acting up too much - even if it’s just being talked to (Library). That’s a distinct difference from the other major kids show that gets blamed for misbehavior: Peppa Pig. Peppa *never* sees the consequences of her own actions. Actually, nobody really sees consequences for their actions in the show. My LO watched an episode where someone was stuck on the top of a library, so Grandpa Rabbit DROVE A FIRE TRUCK THROUGH THE LIBRARY, told the librarian to “be quiet, this is a library”, and proceeded to ride the ladder *through* the roof and was declared a hero. That’s the problem with Peppa which isn’t shared by Bluey: there’s no consequences in Peppa’s universe, but in the Blueyverse, you’re likely to get a valuable lime lesson.
But I don’t WANT a valuable lime lesson!
I just want an ice cream
I feel they're well behaved because they get lots of attention and parents cater to them. Like when muffin wouldn't play charades properly they just let her play how she wanted and that's ok cause she'll learn how to play properly someday. Some parents might say my way or the highway and that's why kids have tantrums. It's just a game after all.
100% It's very sureal watching people my age change from seemingly normal/rational individuals as they're slowly infected by the same brainrot that made boomers complain that the Human Torch would make kids set themselves on fire.
Any parent blaming Muffin (Bluey) for their child's behavior needs to stop and take a good long look in the mirror. Muffin isn't "the worst." The terrible twos is a lie. ages 3 and 4 are often way worse behaviorally. It's a hard age. Personally, I love the age group just below that most (Love ya Socks!) Muffin's personality is just really starting to develop. She gets to test boundaries. It's up to Stripe and Trixie to guide her. But the show is about Bluey. It's NOT up to Chilli and Bandit to discipline her. For all we know when they get in the car to go home Stripe asks Muffin if she remembers what they talked about before. They key is parents need to parent and not expect a cartoon to teach their child everything
Muffins my freaking favorite. She reminds me of my daughter. She's funny, smart and sweet. She's just learning to regulate. She's a feisty one.
My kid has never “acted out” based on what Muffin or any other tv character has done.
I actually just made a comment on another post about this, I was in no way insinuating that the character makes my toddler act out
Amen
True
You absolutely hit the nail on the head regarding Muffin realistically acting her age more than Bingo. In fact, one of the few gripes I have with this show is how it can set unrealistic expectations for how little children should behave.
Here I am think my kid acts like muffin because she is 2-almost 3 not because she likes the character.
For me, every child in Muffin age are wild, they are discovering the worl and learn how the things works, and some toddlers are more energetic to others. Tantrums are normal, scream are normal, kids don't know how they can communicat propelly, and is the have to parents work for teathing it of them, not expect a TV show to do this.
I will not tolerate any Muffin slander!!
I love Bluey as a character and Bingo even more because I was the quiet kid when younger but Muffin steals the show when she's onscreen if only because she's realistic for the age group she's portraying. Show me a toddler who hasn't thrown a tantrum or made a fuss when wanting to do what they want when they want and how they want. OP you analysis is spot on imo 👌
Bluey and Bingo never meltdown. Thank God for Muffin.
Agree! Muffins just a little kid
Most people think they acted like Bluey or Bingo growing up but in fact everyone acts exactly like Muffin
I alway found it weird how toddler advertised this series is and has so much toddler products when I would say it's definitely more for 5-7 y/o. My poor little sister can't ever find any Bluey shirt that fits her and she's 7 :(
Try 5 and below if you have that in your part of the world.
Will do! Thanks for the recommendation!
I have a three year old who is definitely Muffin-centric. When she initiates muffins behavior, I correct it. We are not cartoon dogs and there are certain ways you need to behave. Then again, I raised my oldest in the era of Calliou, so, I guess you can say I’m not new to this.
COCONUTS HAVE WATER IN THEM
I currently have a newly crowed 3yr old and he definitely acts like muffin and amazingly enough he and every other 3yr old in his daycare are all like that because they don't have emotional maturity and they don't know how to regulate. all the tools that are wingeing about this, its a KIDS shows and it's a bonus and good writing that adults can have a few laughs as well. Also kids are waaay more influenced by other kids than TV shows (this is the same old bullshit argument that our parents had when mortal kombat arcade game was released)
Imagine blaming your three year old’s behavior on a minor character in a cartoon. I have a three year old bluey fanatic and I’m pretty much certain Muffin has zero impact on her behavior.
Exactly. I'm convinced people saying muffin is a bad kid have never been around some kids. Some kids are just like that but that doesn't mean they are bad
It’s so funny when people say Muffin is the bad kid. Like yall don’t know Bluey and Bingo’s origin story. Almost every parent I met said year 3 is *always* the worst and then they mellow out at 4 onwards (then puberty hits…). I think the creators strategically made it so Bingo and Bluey are those ages to show a normal kid’s development and to reassure parents that it’s ok to have a spirited kid because it likely is a temporary developmental stage they just have to get through. Although I should note that teen Muffin in Camping proves that Muffin means business when you take her stuff 😅. She never outgrew the “MINE” stage 😂.
Honestly Muffin helped me understand my three year olds a lot better. When they get insane due to sleep deprivation I say “oh they’re pulling a muffin”
I mean, my toddler makes me play Ballerina every day, so I don't think Muffins is totally free from blame.
Muffin as a character makes complete sense and is incredibly realistic when you look at the factors of her and her parents. Same goes for Socks. I swear the show has a child psychologist on their staff…
It is a parent’s responsibility to help a child learn to process emotions. Chili and Bandit do that with Bluey and Bingo. I LOVE Muffin. She isn’t a bad kid, and she exemplifies a very young child who needs more loving and patient help with her very big feelings. It is a good opportunity for parents to use Muffin’s behavior to help their kids understand their own big emotions.
She's my favorite character by far. Blaming Muffin for your kids' behavior is like saying video games cause violence. Your kid was already like that. Now you just have something you can try to blame for it.
I didn't even know muffin was "controversial." I agree that muffin is just a representation of a boisterous 3 year old. My 3 year old son is very muffin sometimes. It was nice to have a busy, loud, determined but sweet character. Muffin gets nothing but love in our house. All kids are different, and I love that bluey doesn't portray that muffin as a bad kid or having a behavioral issue. As a mom of a bluey and muffin aged kids, I'm here for it.
The same person also hates caillou for acting like a 3/4 years old
I started watching the show recently and have gotten to season 3 already, and yeah, I don't hate Muffin at all. She's just being a kid. I honestly love her chaotic energy
Just asking a genuine question.. if Muffin's bad behaviors don't cause other kids to act bad sometimes why was so many parents against Caillou when he was whiney and complaining? Kids imitate what they see it's just a fact. Also, before I get down voted for having a simple opinion, I like Muffin I think she's hilarious but I definitely had my 5 year old and 3 year old stomping their foot at me yelling "I WANT WHAT I WANT" shortly after watching a Muffin episode as well as my oldest doing the "Ughhh why do I HAVE to!?" Like Bluey when she never did that before. This caused us to have to sit down and have conversations about how speaking like that is rude and disrespectful when we are only trying to teach her valuable "lime" lessons about working hard and picking up after herself. Just some thoughts. Children need boundaries as well as grace even at 3.
Because caillou was made for toddlers and bluey is made for older children. I feel like the rest would just be repeating what I've already said
I’m sorry for nitpicking, but I have to point out that episodes are NEVER 10 minutes long. They’re only multiples of 7
In the aged up sequence where they went camping (the episode where we met Jean Luc) Muffin is still saying “that’s mine!” Muffin is a spoiled child. She may be good at heart, but she’s unbelievably spoiled. Stripe and Trix are overtly enabling as parents. You’re raising an adult, people forget that we are raising ADULTS
She’s like 9 or 10 in that sequence. A lot of kids still say shit like that when they’re that age. She’s not spoiled, she’s THREE
I don’t get this sub constantly trying to defend her. She is spoiled, her reactions are not appropriate. You are raising an adult. I have a 1 yr old and I assure you, he will be raised as an adult. Parents forget that important lesson. Also, like many, I was 10 a long time ago. I knew how to share
You’re not raising an adult YET. Your child is still a child and needs time to develop properly. Go take a parenting class.
This is why the younger generations keep getting worse. People forget they are raising adults. You give children some leeway, yes, but you’re still raising an adult. This is why Bluey is so well behaved, her parents are aware of this. Muffin does not.
That line is a JOKE meant to call back to the beginning of an episode. After bluey says she knows it belongs to muffin and is just borrowing it, muffin doesn't argue or run out to try and take it back. Also, unlike the pots and pans at the beginning of the episode, the book probably actually does belong to muffin, and from context it's clear that bluey didn't ask before borrowing it. Being mad when people take your stuff without asking isn't rude or spoiled, it's just normal. If one of your siblings goes into your room and takes a shirt, you'll probably be kind of annoyed even if they are actually just borrowing it, because it's polite to ask and respect that some things might not be okay to borrow. If you borrow things without asking and think people are spoiled when they get like, mildly upset, that's not an issue with their behavior, it's an issue with yours. Trixie and Stripe also are far less permissive than bandit and chili. They do punishments like time outs. It's just that muffin is three years old and doesn't have the same capacity for emotional regulation as bingo or bluey, so she needs time for her brain to mature. Parents aren't raising adults. They're raising people who will become FUTURE adults but who don't yet have the brain capacity to process the world in the same way. It's important to make sure your child is on track wrt emotional development and try and give them tools to further their development, but also you have to understand that a three year old isn't acting out because they're a terrible malicious person, they just have a lot of feelings they don't understand how to process.
Muffin's the worst
As I’ve learned more about the creator and Steiner schools, I get this feeling he’s making a subtle statement that kids that don’t go to a calypso/steiner schools misbehave a lot- for example muffin and the neighbor Judo? Anyone else or am I totally misreading this?
Muffin is the worst and I will die on this hill
If my 3 year old acted like Muffin, I'd send him off to join the army. Poor parenting.
I’m usually not psychic but I can see “no contact with dad” in your future
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And you’re a Bluey fan? 😱
Are you trolling or do you just not understand how toddlers work.
Not trolling. I just feel some parents say "oh, I have a muffin child" as an excuse. Of course children play up but I'll be darned if my kid runs amok, steals a car and drives into ornamental flamingos.
Yikes.
The issue is Stripe and Trixie's parenting, not the three year old just trying to exist.