Johny Johny Yes Papa

23It will not make you better.Not an average of critics. Eight questions, one house.

The joke is a child lying to his father about the sugar. A two-year-old cannot hear it as a joke.

The glance

Industry, Household, Piety, Courage, Republic, Temperance, Truth, Stewardship are the thin ones.

3Industry
3Household
2Piety
2Courage
2Republic
2Temperance
2Truth
2Stewardship

This phone

Set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

After the credits

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

Take controlThis scores 23. If you do not want Johny Johny Yes Papa in the house, the steps are on YouTube. Block it

The picture is hard to misread. A small boy, sugar around his mouth, a father asking if he ate it, and the answer sung as no, no, no. Hundreds of millions of children know the chorus. A grown-up can hear it as a joke about being caught. A two-year-old is exactly the age that files the song under how you talk to a father.

You do not have to throw out every nursery rhyme in the house. You can skip this one. The bus song and the phonics song on this same shelf are thin in other ways. They are not teaching the lie. If your child already sings it, sing it once and add the sentence the cartoon leaves out: he did eat the sugar, and that is all right to say.

Where to watch

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The eight

Industry
3/10
A tune and a cartoon mouth. Nobody in it is doing a job.
Household
3/10
Papa asks. The boy says no with sugar still on his face, and the song laughs.
Piety
2/10
The lie is the fun. Conscience would end the chorus.
Courage
2/10
Nothing is ventured except getting caught, which is played as cute.
Republic
2/10
A father's question is the setup, not a duty.
Temperance
2/10
Sugar, then the next rhyme in the same voice.
Truth
2/10
He did eat it. The song's pleasure is that he says he did not.
Stewardship
2/10
What sticks is the cute no, which is a bad thing to have memorized.

Live historicallyIf they know the chorus, sing it once and add the truth out loud: he did eat it.

Video · YouTube · Luis Fonsi · 2017

Appetite · Not for a child

Despacito

30It will not make you better.Not an average of critics. Eight questions, one house.

The first twenty seconds are bodies on a beach. The billion views do not change the picture.

The glance

Household, Piety, Courage, Republic, Temperance, Truth, Stewardship are the thin ones.

6Industry
2Household
2Piety
3Courage
3Republic
2Temperance
4Truth
2Stewardship

This phone

Set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

After the credits

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

Take controlThis scores 30. If you do not want Despacito in the house, the steps are on YouTube. Block it

Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee on a bright beach, dancing, and a hook that does not need a translation to land. Adults have heard worse, and a review that clutches its pearls at a pop song is not doing its job. The job is to say what a child actually meets. In the first twenty seconds the camera is on bodies. The words can stay mysterious. The picture does not.

It is near the top of the most-watched list, so a parent searching that list will find it and wonder if we skipped the obvious. We did not. It can exist in the world. It does not belong between the bath song and the bus in a queue a child can start. Skip it when it comes up. You do not owe a billion views your living room.

Where to watch

Finding the page.

The eight

Industry
6/10
A song people wanted, played and filmed with real craft.
Household
2/10
The scene is desire. A kitchen is not in it.
Piety
2/10
The camera's interest is skin, from the opening shot.
Courage
3/10
Nobody is asked to risk anything but a dance.
Republic
3/10
A party on a beach, not a street you owe anything to.
Temperance
2/10
The beat is built to be replayed, not to arrive anywhere.
Truth
4/10
It does not pretend to be a lesson. A child still will not follow the Spanish, only the camera.
Stewardship
2/10
Nothing in it is for a child to keep.

Live historicallyTake it out of any mix a child can start without you.