COCOMELON: SEASON 13

Here's the easy part of the decision: this season is clean. Movieguide flags no foul language, no violence, no sex, no nudity — just JJ and his friends singing, dancing, and learning to help and encourage one another. That's a pleasing change from earlier seasons, which drew controversy for a same-sex couple carried over from the spin-off CoComelon Lane. Those two dads are absent here, and Season 13 is suitable for children of all ages.

The only real judgment call isn't about content — it's about screens. Movieguide advises that children aged two and under have no screen time at all, and that preschoolers three to five have extremely limited screen time. So the show is fine; the question is how much of any show your youngest ones should watch.

If you want a bright, kind, musical series for your little ones — and you're keeping screen time in bounds — this one is worth watching.

CoComelon follows young JJ, his family, and his friends as they sing educational songs and play together. Season 13 mixes classic children's tunes, traditional songs, and cultural pieces — from "The Itsy-Bitsy Spider" to a Korean game called Ddakji.

Along the way, JJ marches and dances at school, learns hopscotch, goes on a pumpkin hunt, and practices until he can finally swing on his own. The songs are interactive, inviting little ones to get up and move along.

Three stars, and here's what earns them. The animation is the star turn: vibrant, artistic, bright, and fast-paced, with the polish you'd expect from a series this popular. The songs are built to be interactive, pulling children up out of their seats to march, dance, and play along rather than sit and stare.

The content mixes familiar nursery-rhyme comfort with a few fresh cultural pieces — a Korean game here, a "Twist and Shout" dance number there — so it doesn't feel like the same handful of tunes on repeat. It's a well-made, warm-hearted season doing exactly what it sets out to do for its very young audience.

This season carries a biblical and moral tone, and it wears it gently. The children are helpful and kind — to one another and to animals — and the whole thrust of the songs and games is teamwork, helping, and encouraging others to do the same. There's nothing here to work against a Christian home; the values on screen line up with the ones you're already teaching.

Movieguide notes that this is a welcome change from previous seasons, which faced controversy for featuring a same-sex couple from the spin-off CoComelon Lane — the same two dads who once appeared in the CoComelon intro, standing together and affectionately touching each other. In Season 13 they are absent, and there is no LGBTQ+ content. Weigh that history as you decide, but the season in front of you is clean.

The kindness this show models has deep roots. Scripture asks the same of even the youngest hearts: "Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another" (Ephesians 4:32). Teaching a child to help and encourage is teaching them a small picture of the God who does both.

This is a bright, kind, musical season with nothing to work against your home — a genuine improvement on the seasons that came before. So our answer is simple: worth watching. Just keep the screen-time counsel in mind for your littlest ones — no screens for the under-twos, and very little for preschoolers. Then let them sing along.