Olivia Munn doesn’t let her kids watch everything on TV geared towards children.
The 44-year-old The Predator star has two kids – Malcolm, 3, and Méi, 8 months – with partner John Mulaney.
And in a new People cover story, she explained why they won’t be watching any TV shows tailed to young children.
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During the discussion, she revealed she doesn’t let her kids watch most shows directed towards children, including Ms. Rachel…because she doesn’t like watching them.
“I know kids love [Ms. Rachel], but the thing is, if I can’t watch it, I’m not going to spend the rest of my life going crazy,” she explained.
And it’s not just Ms. Rachel: “These kid shows drive me crazy.”
The cartoons aren’t an exception, either.
“Malcolm asked for Blue’s Clues [recently], and I don’t know who showed him Blue’s Clues, but they are on my s–t list now,” she said. “I said, ‘Hell no. Not in my house.’”
She said husband John “got him into the Spider-Man cartoons, which is not interesting to me.”
“I put on Tom Holland‘s Spider-Man: Homecoming and was like, ‘If you want to watch the real-life ones, then we can watch that,’” she explained. “It might be a little too old for him, but I can’t take the cartoons.”
She did find one exception: Mister Rogers spinoff Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood.
She called it a “great program,” and credited it with helping Malcolm prepare to welcome Méi as a new little sister this past September.
“Daniel Tiger has a little sister, and we’d tell him, ‘There’s a baby sister coming,’” she said of Méi, who arrived via surrogate.
When Méi did finally arrive, she said that she and John were very intentional in making it as smooth and fair an adjustment for their son.
“A lot of times people will be like, ‘Oh, you’re a big brother now. You’re not the baby anymore. Now you can help mommy get the diapers,’” she said. “So, all of a sudden, he has all these responsibilities, and he doesn’t just get to be carefree anymore.”
“Instead, we would say, ‘Now we have two babies. There’s baby Méi Méi and baby Malcolm.’”
Source: justjared.com