I dress up as Ms. Rachel every morning
In a Nutshell
A dad's 1.5-year-old refuses every kids' show, so he buys a $299 Miss Rachel costume and performs the show live each morning to keep her engaged. Live performances hold her attention for an hour, but attempts to transition her to actual screen content fail immediately. The current solution is daily in-person performances while the older sibling watches iPad content instead.
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A one-and-a-half-year-old daughter refuses to watch TV, creating a problem for parents who work from home. The parents tried Blippy, a show featuring a grown man in suspenders dedicated to entertaining toddlers. The daughter danced briefly during the intro out of politeness, then walked away to play with blocks and water on the other side of the room.
The parents escalated to Miss Rachel, which had worked like a tranquilizer dart on their four-year-old, producing hours of stillness. The father told the daughter he had a surprise, and she began clapping because she loves surprises. When Miss Rachel appeared saying "Hi, hello. Can you say mama?" the daughter looked at the TV, looked at her father, and walked away again, rejecting Miss Rachel.
The father consulted ChatGPT, providing context that the one-and-a-half-year-old is vaccinated, sleeps plenty, loves playing with her sister, but refuses to watch TV. He asked for specific recommendations. ChatGPT initially suggested this may be healthy and normal, but after the father accused it of being trained to say that and demanded actual suggestions, it recommended Coco Melon.
Coco Melon is described as crack for kids. The show conducts focus groups, notes timestamps when children look away, and re-engineers segments until no child can look away. The father told his wife they would try it, placed the daughter on the couch, and started an episode with three billion views. The father became entranced by the colors and watched for five to ten minutes before realizing the daughter had left to stack jars in the kitchen.
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