Behaviour

Hygiene

Hygiene is everything around keeping a body clean and comfortable: washing hands, brushing teeth, bathing, blowing a nose, cleaning up after a mess. For young children these are daily routines they are still learning, and they often come with resistance or worry. A calm series can show these moments as ordinary and doable, giving a child words and a picture of what happens before it happens to them.

For 3-year-olds

At three, a child is starting to manage parts of these routines alone, washing hands, wiping a face, helping with the toothbrush, but still needs an adult nearby for most of it. Watching a character go through the same steps makes the routine predictable, and predictable is what makes it easier to accept. Look for a series that shows the whole sequence at an unhurried pace, with a warm adult helping rather than commanding. Stories where getting dirty is part of the fun and washing up is simply what comes next work especially well at this age, because they take the shame out of a messy day.

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Trash Truck

Slumber Party

Balanced

recommended age co-watching from 2

Hank, a young boy, hosts his first slumber party with his three friends: Trash Truck, a bear named Donny and a raccoon named Walter. They tour his bedroom, eat pizza, wash up, watch a bit of TV and then settle into a tent in the backyard. When the dark turns out to be too much, they wake Hank's parents and finish the night in the big bed.

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Little Bear

Little Bear's Bath

Balanced

recommended age co-watching from 2

Little Bear gets ready for a bath while he and Mother Bear wait for Father Bear to return from a long fishing trip. While bathing, Little Bear imagines his tub becoming a wide sea, where he meets a mermaid tangled in a fishing net and helps her get free as they look for Father. Back home, Mother Bear dries him off and reads aloud a letter from Father, who writes that he will be home tomorrow. The episode ends with Little Bear asking to hear his favorite part of the letter one more time.

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