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by bippi 4596 days ago
Anecdotal note: Our son wanted to watch Thomas the Train. The CGI version. We noticed that while he watched a ton of Team Umizoomi, some Paw Patrol and Diego... Thomas seemed to follow right along with some incredibly new behavioral issues. He was just a little badger.

We cut-off Thomas. Within 2 days, he was much easier to get along with. The books and toys were fine, just not that one show. His daycare said, "Yeah, he's been tons better. I didn't want to believe you, but he's had no timeouts and he's been much nicer."

Our running theory is that he was paying just enough attention to see when the trains were bad, but not enough attention to see how the bad behavior turned-out for the trains.