{"id":173440,"date":"2025-06-08T21:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T21:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/08\/olivia-munn-doesnt-want-her-kids-watching-cartoons\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T21:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T21:04:13","slug":"olivia-munn-doesnt-want-her-kids-watching-cartoons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/08\/olivia-munn-doesnt-want-her-kids-watching-cartoons\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Munn doesn&#8217;t want her kids watching cartoons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2025-06-08\" datetime=\"1749416653\" pubdate=\"\">8 June 2025<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/olivia-munn\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,olivia-munn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Olivia Munn<\/a> won&#8217;t let her children watch cartoons.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Olivia Munn doesn&#8217;t want her kids watching cartoons<\/p>\n<p>The Your Friends and Neighbors actress &#8211; who has Malcolm, three, and Mei, eight months, with husband <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/john-mulaney\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,john-mulaney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Mulaney<\/a> doesn&#8217;t find animated shows particularly &#8220;interesting&#8221; and she&#8217;s not a fan of kids&#8217; YouTube favourite Ms. Rachel either.<\/p>\n<p>She told People magazine: &#8220;I know kids love [Ms. Rachel], but the thing is, if I can&#8217;t watch it, I&#8217;m not going to spend the rest of my life going crazy. These kid shows drive me crazy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Malcolm asked for Blue&#8217;s Clues [recently], and I don&#8217;t know who showed him Blue&#8217;s Clues, but they are on my s*** list now.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I said, &#8216;Hell no. Not in my house.&#8217; John got him into the Spider-Man cartoons, which is not interesting to me. <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I put on Tom Holland&#8217;s Spider-Man: Homecoming and was like, &#8216;If you want to watch the real-life ones, then we can watch that.&#8217; It might be a little too old for him, but I can&#8217;t take the cartoons.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nHowever, Olivia, 44, made an exception for Daniel Tiger&#8217;s Neighborhood, which she thinks is &#8220;great&#8221; and she and John, 42, found it helpful for Malcolm to watch the PBS cartoon ahead of the birth of Mei so he could prepare for being a big brother.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe said: &#8220;Daniel Tiger has a little sister, and we&#8217;d tell him, &#8216;There&#8217;s a baby sister coming.&#8217; &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>\nAfter Mei was born, the couple were carefu, not to &#8220;change [Malcolm&#8217;s] world and identity and responsibilities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nOlivia explained: &#8220;A lot of times people will be like, &#8216;Oh, you&#8217;re a big brother now. You&#8217;re not the baby anymore. Now you can help mommy get the diapers.&#8217; So, all of a sudden, he has all these responsibilities, and he doesn&#8217;t just get to be carefree anymore.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Instead, we would say, &#8216;Now we have two babies. There&#8217;s baby M\u00e9i M\u00e9i and baby Malcolm.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;He would say, &#8216;Mommy, come over here. Daddy, come over here,&#8217; and if we were holding the baby, we would put her down so that he wouldn&#8217;t feel that all of a sudden now we can&#8217;t be there for him.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;It&#8217;s not that we were trying to teach him that everything he says goes, but we wanted him to have the transition with her to know that we&#8217;re still here whenever he needs us. Then, eventually when he&#8217;d say, &#8216;Put M\u00e9i M\u00e9i down,&#8217; we&#8217;d say, &#8216;No, she wants to see her mommy too.&#8217; <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;He smiles, and he understands.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nWhile she is only eight months old, Mei already shows she &#8220;loves her brother.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nOlivia said: &#8220;Anywhere he goes, she lights up. He&#8217;s teaching her how to talk. We have this great video of him telling her to say dada, and she says dada right back. It&#8217;s amazing and fun for him because he gets instant feedback and gratification from her doing the thing that he&#8217;s teaching her to do.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I asked if he could teach her mama, but he said no.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/olivia-munn-want-kids-watching-cartoons-1420131.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8 June 2025 Olivia Munn won&#8217;t let her children watch cartoons. Olivia Munn doesn&#8217;t want her kids watching cartoons The Your Friends and Neighbors actress &#8211; who has Malcolm, three, and Mei, eight months, with husband John Mulaney doesn&#8217;t find animated shows particularly &#8220;interesting&#8221; and she&#8217;s not a fan of kids&#8217; YouTube favourite Ms. Rachel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":173441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2331,4694],"class_list":{"0":"post-173440","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-john-mulaney","9":"tag-olivia-munn"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}