Barney and Friends

Pros: Educational and fun for toddlers and preschoolers
Cons: Younger babies may become obsessed!

Yes, it is true! I an trying to put my horrible past behind me! At a time of my life before I had a toddler, I USED TO BASH BARNEY! My friends and I would sit in front of the television and make rude comments, make up crude lyrics to all of his songs,...

Pros: Very educational to children in all aspects
Cons: Repeat viewings can be annoying to adults

Before I had my Daughter, I used to tease my sister about singing Barney songs. My nephew was absolutely in love with the purple dinosaur. Once I had my Daughter, all of the Barney tapes were passed on to me, and my perspective changed!

Barney...

Pros: Good life lessons and music that keeps my son's attention.
Cons: Can be quite annoying for parents watching with their children. Not as educational as some.

I try to severely limit how much television my young son watches. What little he does watch I try and limit to educational type programming. He usually cannot sit still long enough to watch a full 30 minute program of anything. Of the shows he does ...

Pros: Educational, amusing, entertaining
Cons: Annoying voices and the children are over actors

Okay, I've been wanting to write about Barney for quite some time. Now that I've seen the show a millon times, I think I'm qualified to write a review. Just who is Barney? He is a wacky purple dinosaur that parents pray their children will never ever be...

Pros: Lessons galore
Cons: Uhhg that voice

My six year old daughter watched Barney And Friends when she was smaller, and now she watches it again with my son who has just turned twenty months of age. Barney has been around for years and years. Parents mostly can't stand him, but kids adore him ...

Pros: educational, fun, social lessons
Cons: drives MOM insane

Barney has been a featured show in our house since my oldest son, now five, was old enough to be interested in television. I have a sinking feeling I will be watching him until my newborn daughter is ready to give him up.

The reason I say a...

Pros: Educational, fun for toddlers
Cons: none

“Clean up, clean up, everybody everywhere, clean up, clean up….”

OK, yes, yes, it’s very irritating after a while. But your toddlers are learning from this purple dinosaur. And as much as some adults make fun of him and say how irritating he...

Pros: Sort of goofy and educational.
Cons: The message is delivered at my kids ankles. And there is so much Barney product that the show is nothing but an infomercial.

I've been waiting a long time to write this review. I guess I'm afraid of what I'm going to say. But I might as well cave in and write my review, and be darned if I end up yammering on and on about what a ridiculous show this is.

Remember,...

Pros: Wonderful teaching aspects
Cons: Can wear on adults' nerves, but it's aimed toward kids

My own opinion of Barney, that big purple dinosaur, was certainly lost to my daughters. I vowed that my children wouldn't watch the show, yet still uncertain of my reasoning behind that thought. Apparently I hadn't watched enough Barney to understand...

Pros: educational material in every episode
Cons: child actors can be annoying

OK, we've all seen Barney the purple dinosaur. Right. We'll my son was just borrowed Barney's very first video and I was shocked to see Sandy Duncan staring in the Video with rather mean looking "Blue" dinosaur.

We'll Barney has...

Pros: Educational, culturally diverse, teaches kids they are special and loved
Cons: Too much emphasis on imagination, can get monotonous

I first became aware of Barney while pregnant with my oldest daughter in 1993. I heard other adults laughing about him and making fun of him, and saying how much they hated the show and how Barney drove them crazy.
Well, as soon as my daughter...

Pros: Educational, Fun
Cons: Baby Bop's pronunciation of words

Barney, whether most adults like him or not, is a very educational program for our children. I have 2 little girls, ages 3 and 1. My 3 year old daughter learned her ABC's by age 2, just by watching him. Of course I would have taught her myself, but...

Pros: educational, cute songs and Barney is cute.
Cons: Nothing

Barney the big purple dinosaur I remember when I was first introduced to this show. My friend has two small children who use to watch Barney every morning she said it drove her nuts hearing all the songs that they sang. One day I was at her house and...

Pros: Barney teaches children numbers, colors, and how to treat other people.
Cons: Barney annoys me a bit but I know the children are gaining some knowledge.

My triplets have recently started to show some interest in children's programming on television. They have been very slow to do so and for the moment there are only two shows they will watch. They will watch Teletubbies or Barney. Between the two I...

Pros: Color recognization, alphabet, word play, role playing, educational
Cons: Early morning, but most kids are up.

When my 2nd daughter was born 3 years ago I had seen Barney (the purple dinosaur) everywhere I went. My husband and I couldn't understand why these kids would ever like something so silly as a purple dinosaur. Mind you this WAS 3 years ago. Never saw the...