Caillou ruined my son.

Until now, I've never had a single complaint about my near-perfect three year old. From sleeping through the night at 6 weeks of, giving up bottles and his crib and moving to his own room - even taking baths and going to bed every night without a single complaint and potty training and reading on his own at 2.

UNTIL CAILLOU. And I'm not joking. This isn't a joke review. This is a serious complaint.

That obnoxious little brat, Caillou, in just two episodes, has my son WHINING "I can't!!" to EVERYTHING he is asked to do. "Time to get out of the tub, sweetie," I tell him. "I caaaaaaannnn't." He whines in this horrible squeal. I had NO IDEA where this abhorrent behavior came from until I caught THREE SECONDS of this horrible show on tv.

My won was watching intently and I said "turn the tv off please." And to my horror, he dropped to the floor, and started whining over and over "I can't! I can't".

I wanted to throw up. No shock- this horrible excuse for a television show has been PERMANENTLY banned from our home. I will tell every parent I know of this god -awful excuse for an "educational program".

My son has caught glimpses of sponge bob (crude), power rangers (physical fighting) and even half an hour of gremlins (not in my presence, but I found out he saw the most gruesome parts) and had ZERO reaction to these things - he didn't karate chop our house cats, or imitate any of the crude humor on sponge bob....but in a mere TWO MINUTES of "CAILLOU" my son immediately picked up that petulant little Bart's HORRIBLE incessant whine and his "I can't" crap that he spews every time he is asked or told to do ANYTHING.

In every episode after the first season, Caillou whines about EVERYTHING. He throws things, yells at his sister "Nooooooo, Rosie!" And whines CONSTANTLY. God forbid you should let your child watch this and then he or she starts sounding like Caillou. I'd rather my son dance around saying "Say Map!" All day than listening to him whine about EVERYTHING.

BY FAR the worst children's show I've ever seen. PBS should be paying for a professional to help me fix this behavior (and a trip to the spa to relax my nerves after listening to the whining I'd never had to deal with before "CAILLOU". Flat out AWFUL.

Kayt (Mom to one son, 3)

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I know this is a copypasta but I have 5 younger siblings and when they started watching Caillou it had a HORRIBLE effect on them. It honestly does create whiny, entitled children. Here comes the hotstepper (murderer) (talk) 22:46, 9 June 2021 (UTC)

-- Here comes the hotstepper (murderer) (talk) 22:46, 9 June 2021 (UTC)