Sure, experts agree that it’s a good idea to limit screen time for your children, but let’s be honest: parents need a break sometimes, and the easiest way to get one is to plop the little ones down in front of the ol’ tube and let Netflix babysit for a while. To be clear, though, that doesn’t mean you want to simply hypnotise them with whatever colourful, synapse-frying baby-crack you happen to scroll to first. Ideally, you want to find a program that will engage, entertain and, to some degree, educate the wee ones as you stare off into space for a few restorative minutes.
Luckily, Netflix is packed with bingeable kids programming that can hit at least two of those targets at a time, if not all three. That includes everything from a cooking show starring Michelle Obama and a bunch of puppets to a cast of colourful robots helping answer life’s big questions to reboots of some classic series you probably loved as a kid. Thrown on any of these 25 programs and cut yourself some slack – without any guilt.
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