Healthy TV Shows?

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Looking for good, wholesome TV shows to watch with younger children. Humor always helps. Any suggestions are much appreciated!

Examples of shows we’ve watched in the past: Star Wars Resistance, Lego Ninjago, Young Sheldon…

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The Masked Singer - I don’t really like it but it seems harmless, and I hear kids like it
 
Little House on the Prairie: Amazon Prime. Kids will still enjoy it. I really can’t think of anything that’s really any good on the networks for kids.
 
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Young Sheldon
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features really basic apologetics questions that where poorly answered and makes kids think Christianity is dumb. This clip shows Young Sheldon acting in a style that could almost be described as Ben Shapiro, as documented by his way of displaying the other person as “losing”. Be ready.
 
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We’re Brady Bunch fans in our house! Our daughter started watching them from about 3 or 4 and she always loved it and still does at 15. It’s something we always bonded over. Two great parents, funny housekeeper, kids with everyday problems that get solved by the end of the show, great catchy music (both the theme song and the music they play throughout the shows.) What’s not to like?
 
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We’re Brady Bunch fans in our house! Our daughter started watching them from about 3 or 4 and she always loved it and still does at 15. It’s something we always bonded over. Two great parents, funny housekeeper, kids with everyday problems that get solved by the end of the show, great catchy music (both the theme song and the music they play throughout the shows.) What’s not to like?
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Cute, simple, wholesome family show. It is implied, but AFAIK never stated, that Carol is a widow. Her particulars are never discussed.

We enjoy the old CBS family sitcoms on MeTV. They also show Carol Burnett which is priceless.
 
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Those were actually some of our favorite parts, as I had been prepping the kids with some apologetics material, and those were some of the questions we had covered. They found the pastors weak response even more amusing as a result.
 
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Middle school.
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Anything and everything that Michael Schur touches is gold to me. This includes The Office, Parks and Rec, Brooklyn Nine-Nine and The Good Place. I would count all of these as middle-school appropriate, although Nine-Nine is perhaps more suitable for high-schoolers. If y’all like comedy, you can’t miss with Schur. The Good Place is awesome because (at least for us), it easily stimulates conversation about “last things” (eschatology).

American Housewife is great. Very funny and family friendly (married couple with 3 kids).
 
I enjoy the Office and Parks & Rec, but I would not watch it with my middle school-age daughter. There are too many crass jokes. Maybe when she’s a junior or senior in high school.

My wife has been going through Family Matters and Full House with our daughter as of late.
 
I don’t think that I’d consider The Office appropriate for middle school. The constant sexual jokes and taking of God’s name in vain are not things that young children should be seeing. It is a funny show though. I don’t watch the other ones you mentioned. I don’t find any of them to be funny and The Good Place is just not a very good show in my opinion.
 
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To paraphrase Ebeneezer Scrooge, are there no family-friendly sitcoms? (And I definitely don’t include ‘The Big Bang Theory’ in that category).
 
If you are talking middle school, I would throw Blue Bloods in there. It is the most Catholic show I know on TV. This week’s dialogue inside a Catholic Church was moving, to say the least. I gets the faith a little wrong from time to time, but it teaches solid values, including the value of the Catholic faith.

Another one I would add for that age is Stargate Atlantis. We binged on that one summer.
 
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Two great parents, funny housekeeper, kids with everyday problems that get solved by the end of the show, great catchy music (both the theme song and the music they play throughout the shows.) What’s not to like?
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Well, they did get married in the back yard. I suppose some here would find that objectionable.
 
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They’re not depicted as a Catholic family, so their getting married in the backyard shouldn’t really bother anyone here.
 
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