My one-and-a-half year old daughter is starting to pay more attention to what is streaming on television. The first time I noticed was after she sat with me while I watched Cobra Kai on Netflix. During fight scenes, she would point at the TV and ask me, “Daddy, who dat?”

“That’s the bad guy,” I would reply.

It made an impression because now everyone she doesn’t know is a bad guy.

When she falls down, she pretends she is knocking down a bad guy by saying, “Bad guy, fall down.”

A few days later she was pounding on the sliding glass door, yelling, “Bad guy, outside.”

I went to the door and looked outside. Behind our fence was a landscaper sitting on his lawnmower. My daughter kept yelling, “Bad guy outside.”

Even when she asks to color in her coloring book, she says, “bad guy color”

My daughter also met her first crush thanks to Netflix. She met him on the kids show CoComelon. He is a computer animated toddler with one blond curl named J.J..

When J.J. comes on the screen she sits with a smile on her face as he giggles, sings, dances and plays. When she isn’t watching CoComelon, she sings at the top of her voice, “I YUV you, J.J..”

Her most recent crush appeared when we watched the first episode of the new season of The Mandalorian on Disney+. He goes by the name The Child, aka ‘Baby Yoda’.

My daughter was so excited when ‘Baby Yoda’ came on screen, yelling, “Baby Oda”. Then when he left the screen she holds up her arms and screams, “Baby Oda, all gone.”

Even tonight, my daughter started crying, “I yuv Baby Oda”. To make her feel better, I printed two pictures of him that she refuses to let put down

My daughter learning about the world through TV was bound to happen, I just didn’t know it would happen so soon. I’m glad TV is teaching her about bad guys. Learning about crushes? I’m not so sure about that stuff.

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