Calm Down, People. RE: Bluey

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Apparently, a bunch of helicopter parents got upset over yet another tiny thing.

In the episode of Bluey titled The Sign, when Bluey’s mother, Chili, brings Bluey, her five-year-old sister, Bingo, and their two cousins, four-year-old Muffin and two-year-old Socks with her in the family car, because there’s only room in the backseat for three, as the oldest, Bluey is allowed to ride in the front seat for the first time in her life. Which she was thrilled about.


 I don’t blame you, Bluey. I remember my first time in the front. It was pretty exciting. Especially when you’re the oldest so you get to do it before your siblings. It made the sixteen month age gap between myself and my brother feel huge. 


Parents got worried about their younger kids wanting to ride shotgun and/or out of the booster seat because Bluey got to, but there’s an easy solution to that.  Just tell them that Bluey is seven, which is the legal minimum age for kids to ride up front and she’s almost big enough for the regular seat anyway so it’s fine that they only had one spare booster seat, and besides, Chili looked it up on her phone before they left and, 


FUN FACT:  in Australia, or at least in Queensland, where the Heeler family lives, if the backseats are all occupied by younger children, a child above four years old can sit in the front.

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