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Video · YouTube · LooLoo Kids · 2009

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Appetite · Not the one to leave on

Johny Johny Yes Papa

23Leave it.

The joke is a child lying to his father about the sugar. A two-year-old cannot hear it as a joke.

Take controlThis scores 23. If you do not want Johny Johny Yes Papa in the house, the steps are on YouTube. Block it

The review

The picture is hard to misread. A small boy, sugar around his mouth, a father asking if he ate it, and the answer sung as no, no, no. Hundreds of millions of children know the chorus. A grown-up can hear it as a joke about being caught. A two-year-old is exactly the age that files the song under how you talk to a father.

You do not have to throw out every nursery rhyme in the house. You can skip this one. The bus song and the phonics song on this same shelf are thin in other ways. They are not teaching the lie. If your child already sings it, sing it once and add the sentence the cartoon leaves out: he did eat the sugar, and that is all right to say.

Journal

Keep Johny Johny Yes Papa in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 23. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Baby Shark Dance

35 instead of 23

Baby Shark Dance is still a children film, and it scores 35 instead of 23. What you gain is household: Mama, papa, grandma, and grandpa shark are the whole cast.

The eight

3
Industry
A tune and a cartoon mouth. Nobody in it is doing a job.
3
Household
Papa asks. The boy says no with sugar still on his face, and the song laughs.
2
Piety
The lie is the fun. Conscience would end the chorus.
2
Courage
Nothing is ventured except getting caught, which is played as cute.
2
Republic
A father's question is the setup, not a duty.
2
Temperance
Sugar, then the next rhyme in the same voice.
2
Truth
He did eat it. The song's pleasure is that he says he did not.
2
Stewardship
What sticks is the cute no, which is a bad thing to have memorized.

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Appetite · Not for a child

Despacito

30Leave it.

The first twenty seconds are bodies on a beach. The billion views do not change the picture.

Take controlThis scores 30. If you do not want Despacito in the house, the steps are on YouTube. Block it

The review

Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee on a bright beach, dancing, and a hook that does not need a translation to land. Adults have heard worse, and a review that clutches its pearls at a pop song is not doing its job. The job is to say what a child actually meets. In the first twenty seconds the camera is on bodies. The words can stay mysterious. The picture does not.

It is near the top of the most-watched list, so a parent searching that list will find it and wonder if we skipped the obvious. We did not. It can exist in the world. It does not belong between the bath song and the bus in a queue a child can start. Skip it when it comes up. You do not owe a billion views your living room.

Journal

Keep Despacito in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 30. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Bath Song

43 instead of 30

Bath Song is still a music film, and it scores 43 instead of 30. What you gain is household: The evening of a small house is the actual subject, for three minutes.