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Bluey ‘Pass the Parcel’ season three episode sparks parental debate on how to raise our kids. Do you think there should be a present for each layer of paper?         

There are plenty of lessons to learn about parenting in ABC Kids’ much-loved Bluey.

For starters, we can all learn how to be a little more patient and carefree by taking a look at Bandit and Chilli.

But one episode in season three has sparked an online debate about how we should (and shouldn’t) be raising our children. And it all revolves around an innocent game of pass the parcel.

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Lucky’s dad isn’t on board with everyone getting a prize. Image: ABC Kids

Pass the Parcel episode divides parents

The episode titled ‘Pass the Parcel’ has divided parents over how the popular game played at children’s birthday parties should be done.

The episode shows Bluey’s neighbour, Lucky’s dad, complaining that “we’re raising a nation of squibs” for allowing children involved in the game to get a prize after each layer is peeled off the big one.

It’s not how he believed the game should be played, so when it’s time for him to host a birthday party, he insists that the children “suck it up” and play the game as it was intended – not everyone walks away a winner.

Does every layer need a prize?

Shortly after the episode aired, it didn’t take long for parents to hit the internet to share their strong views on how pass the parcel should be played.

It seems we’re divided into two categories when it comes to the topic: The children of the 80s who strongly believe that each layer DOES NOT need a prize, and those born afterwards who think it’s only fair that each child gets a little something before the big prize at the end.

Much like the age-old ‘should toddler soccer have a score’ debate, it had everyone talking.

“Pass the parcel should always be played with Lucky’s dads rules,” one fan insisted on Twitter.

“OMG Bluey making the case for a return to 80s pass the parcel, I love it,” another added.

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The rules are changed. Image: ABC Kids

The best Bluey episode ever? 

Debates aside, other fans were claiming the ep – which runs longer than the usual Bluey episode – was possibly the best one we’ve seen so far.

That was one of the funniest Bluey’s ever, I was laughing out loud throughout,” a person shared on Reddit. “The parade of crying and howling kids as Pat tried to buy their silence with $5 notes was hilarious. Little squibs.”

Another agreed: “By far the funniest one so far. Plenty of laugh out loud moments.”

Meanwhile, other parents couldn’t care less if we did or didn’t have a prize in each layer, they were just grateful that they weren’t the only ones with strong views on the topic.

“This episode perfectly captures my frustrations with a recent kids party. Absolute shite in each layer and no one was engaged,” a Reddit user commented.

“When I saw the episode title I went off on a 2-minute rant about how it’s the most rigged aspect of modern birthday parties to my wife…Then while watching it I felt totally vindicated,” another added.

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Why parents are so passionate about the rule

According to psychologist Jocelyn Brewer, there’s a good reason the episode has everyone talking because it perfectly “captures how parenting and childhood has changed over the last generation”.

“We want to hold onto aspects of what worked from when we were kids, keeping in mind our experience of being parented probably varies from our parents’ memory of what was going on, and combine it with new approaches and insights,’ she told The West Australian.

What do you think?

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