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Peppa Pig

@peppapigofficial

· YouTube

Peppa Pig is small, gentle stories about a preschool pig, her family and her friends.

Peppa lives with Mummy Pig, Daddy Pig and her little brother George, and her friends from playgroup are animals too. Each episode is one small everyday thing at home, at playgroup or round at a friend's house, with the grown-ups nearby and usually getting something slightly wrong. Not much goes badly, and the stories land somewhere happy.

Analyzed by KidSight

WHAT IT MEANS AT EACH AGE

0–2

A little young

Peppa Pig is safe for a two-year-old and quiet on screen. What holds Peppa back at age two is the talking, which runs at grown-up speed without slowing down, and stories that turn on getting along with other people, which starts to make sense around age three.

3–5

Good fit

Age four is where Peppa Pig fits. The stories stay inside a house, a playground or a school day, and the words sit at a four-year-old's level or below. A four-year-old gets a whole story, start to finish.

6–8

A little old

Nothing in Peppa Pig stops working at age seven. The stories resolve quickly and the feelings stay gentle, so Peppa asks very little of a seven-year-old. Peppa becomes easy company rather than the show they pick.

9–10

Too old

Peppa Pig is finished by age nine, and that is about how narrow the show is rather than anything wrong with it. A day in the life of a preschooler has very little left for a nine-year-old.

WHAT IT’S ABOUT

Family life

Friends

Birthdays and celebrations

WHAT IT TEACHES

Routines and self-care

Empathy and kindness

Sharing and taking turns

WHAT TO KNOW

Steady and easygoing

SUMMARY

Peppa Pig is small, gentle and clean: nothing scary, nothing pushy, nothing that needs a caveat. Peppa fits age four almost exactly, and fitting one age that closely is why a nine-year-old has moved on.