my son is almost two and I've been letting him watch cocomelon but now I had to get him speech therapy so I can get him to talk there are hundreds and hundreds of anecdotes in which parents mention the exact same problem the cocomelon show is so insanely addictive it's being compared to nicotine and causing developmental issues amongst the kids who can't stop watching children's TV expert jerich sanss calls it the most damaging show a child can watch explaining the sneaky ways in which they make the show addictive firstly there's the colors take for example The
Wheels On The Bus the three main colors blue green and yellow are all at maximum saturation meaning they cannot be made any brighter no matter how hard you try extreme saturation is normally used for alerts and notifications as it's exciting Dynamic and attracts attention which is why it's also used in slot machines cocomelon puts these colors in perfect contrast making them appear even more vibrant which is different to for example Bluey in which the colors instead blend together COC melon's also different because it's highly repetitive there's a reason they have 38 videos with over a
billion views a child's brain is wired to learn through repetition so it feels right to them to watch the same thing over and over again Coco melon abuses this in almost every video for example in the yes yes playground song they pick a word to repeat three times in every sentence pairing it with a subtly repeating back ground lullab keeping children hooked literally no show or movie puts my son into a deep trans the way Coco melon does the second it's on the TV he turns into a toddler zombie who doesn't see or hear anything
else that's going on in the room this is only exacerbated by Coco melon subtitles which have also been a heavy point of criticism the letters are not educational I can barely raid them fast enough it's simply another interesting element to capture your little one's attention Millan explains in every description our goal is to help make learning a fun and enjoyable experience for kids giving you the peace of mind that your children are receiving quality educational content but people have argued that they're teaching exactly what children shouldn't do for example in the No No bedtime song
the baby refuses to brush his teeth have a bath put on pajamas or get in bed the education is that he eventually agrees to do so yet a Tik Tok user was critical stating anytime I'd ask my son to do a simple task he'd say no no no he's sitting there watching Coco melon which taught him no no no and to say no to me on the topic of Education Jerica San stated these people don't give a about our children they care about money that's it your child's cognitive development in direct exchange for their wealth
and there's pretty good evidence supporting this a New York Times journalist visited Coco melon Studio discovering their number one focus is keeping children children hooked Coco millan's data and analytics team sifts constantly through YouTube numbers to determine exactly what resonates should a girl wear black jeans or blue jeans should the music be louder or softer should the bus be yellow or red yellow is the answer as they use a darker method to ensure that they're correct cocomelon has a dedicated distractor Tron room in which once a month children are brought here one at a time
and shown a handful of episodes to figure out exactly which parts of the shows are engaging and which are tuned out next to the TV playing cocomelon there's a second screen which plays a continuous loop of bnar Real World scenes a guy pouring a cup of coffee someone getting a haircut each lasting about 20 seconds whenever a youngster looks away from the Moon bug show to Glimpse the distractor Tron a note is jotted down we can see what they're looking at and the exact moment when they got distracted therefore education clearly isn't the primary goal
keeping kids attention is and this is proven by cocom melon's most addictive element rapid camera cutting it's crazy how many times the frame changes on Coco melon it's the same type of Addicting behavior that we experience on a Tik Tok bench it's the Quick Change of frame that releases that dopamine and makes the videos addicting to watch count the seconds between a change of frame well Tik tocker the circus brain did exactly this he firstly counts the changes on My Little Pony concluding there's about 6 seconds between each cut he then Compares it to COC
melon 1 two 1 2 3 1 2 1 2 one one TI one TI one in her video the nightmare that is celon savantics draws a similar conclusion she found that 96% of the shots in baby shark were shorter than 2 seconds she then Compares four different animated shows again finding Coco melon has the shest shots the longest shot on a cocoon video was 6 seconds the longest shot on Arcane was 8 seconds the longest shot on Bluey was 27 seconds and the longest shot on encounter was 18 seconds which when combined with every other
element creates some terrifying statistics Dr Kristen summer explained that when showing an infant normal video content they'll focus on the screen just 11% of the time however when the video is instead switched to Coca melon their screen engagement skyrockets to a whopping 74% this therefore produces stories such as this I used to volunteer for a preschool and they had song Time a Coco melon video came on and all of the tots stopped what they were doing put down their cheesec crackers and remained fixated on the screen for the duration of the video it was honestly
kind of terrifying YouTuber Sab spark shared his own personal anecdote he asked to watch a Disney movie with his two younger cousins who both completely refused and instead spent all day glued to an iPad playing the addictive show in Coco melon made my kid a zombie a mother talks about her son he would be in a days while watching it you could be waving your hand right in front of his face and he wouldn't move it was almost scary this was also discovered by Sarah Mills 998 who explained when the Coco melon addiction is so
real that my one-year-old can navigate the TV to turn it on by himself however nothing shows the addiction better than the Coco melon Tik Tok Trend parents will play the show intro loudly and video their kids sprinting toward the television where you can witness their mood change instantly the New York Times journalist found something similar the kid in the distructor tron had shown up in the midst of a tantrum which ended the second he heard the Coco melon theme song it was no surprise to Wheeler the head of research 99% of kids he said if
they're having issues when they get here once that Coco melon song comes on they're like ah life is okay all is good with the world obviously there's reason for this cocomelon is so hyp stimulating that it actually acts as a drug and what happens when you take the drug away young children experiencing symptoms of addiction and withdrawal obviously leaving them completely disregulated Tik Tok user the PFF One filmed what happens when you take the show away explaining he'll be inconsolable for at least 10 to 15 minutes after adding in the description Coco melon meltdown is
legit once you have a taste of the cocoa it's hard to break the addiction which this Reddit user had experienced even worse my husband and I have been worried about our child I can slowly see how she'd throw violent Tantrums at home and in church whenever she'd get bored and would want to watch the show her behavior changes the moment she watches the show and she will not even eat her meals if she wouldn't watch it after these tantrums end kids can experience a general discomfort in the speed of everyday life the more they watch
the show the more their brain begins to expect this intense level of stimul basically cocomelon overstimulates their brains so much that everything else just seems slow and boring in comparison however the potential consequences get much worse than this as mentioned at the start it was the cause of a child speaking problems with a notable reply reading same thing happened with my daughter too she's four but can't speak properly she knows the words but she does not like to frame the sentence or speech she has been watching these Coco melons or such other stuffs for two
or three years hope we're not too late over on Reddit a speech language pathologist explained screen time in general is linked with speech delays for a variety of reasons but Coco melon is excessively bad firstly unlike other TV shows or movies it doesn't have a story it's just very short clips with poorly written songs The Kids Aren't aable to follow the plot learn vocabulary and see the resolution of a conflict supported by infant specialist Meg for and the problem with fuss Pac TV programs is that we find that little On's language development is slower on
the Agents of speech Youtube channel this is again confirmed the main problem with watching videos on the Internet is that they don't know how to use the language that they learn but he adds that four to 5 hours of screen time per day can make a toddler completely nonverbal 4 to 5 hours is obviously a lot of time but in Coco melon made my kid a zombie researchers discovered that 5-year-olds who watch more than 2 hours of TV a day tended to have lower attention spans and were 7.7 times more likely to show symptoms of
ADHD the screen times might be even lower for Cocoa melon specifically because as explained by Jericho Sans not all screen time is created equal a child who just watched 30 minutes of Coco melon and a child who just watch 30 minutes of trash truck will look like a very very different child thankfully here lies a simple solution Sierra Renee explained my 2-year-old is speech delayed and addicted to Coco melon switched to miss Rachel 2 days ago and he's already saying more words and hasn't had any tantrum kim. it shared an almost identical anecdote my 8-month-old
was obsessed with cocomelon and having bad Tantrums so I canceled cocomelon and only let her watch Miss Rachel and she said her first word within the first 3 days of watching clearly parents are able to Simply change the channel but not before leaving celon a massive amount of dislikes they've therefore earned the title the absurdly popular kid show parents hate and Coco melon has has actually responded to the criticism that explain our shows are not intended to replace outdoor playtime or playdates they have a place in Children's Entertainment time and as with food exercise Etc
it comes down to each parent to find the right and appropriate balance for their children our responsibility is ensuring that the quality of the content that we produce is high and beneficial for the development of a child's cognitive and soft skills it is worth adding that our social media communities are filled with stories of parents who experience firsthand how Moon bug content helps their children celon does have a crazy amount of supporters but it's obvious that some of them are simply ignoring the downsides my baby learned the alphabet and numbers from cocomelon she may not
speak a complete sentence but she expresses her wants through phrases but is it Coco melon's responsibility to ensure that babies are talking well no people love blaming cartoons and games for raising children and not the shitty parents that don't step in to stop them from watching so much cocomelon is actually a really sad symbol of parents giving their children tablets instead of actually parenting and interacting with them ultimately parents are the people who choose how much their child consumes
