In case you are not in the know, Nina is a little girl who realizes at the last minute that she "HAS TO GO, RIGHT NOW" and therefore needs a family members to help rush to a bathroom RIGHT NOW because she wasn't listening to her body.
This family member is either her mom, dad, or big brother who all try to help in some normal human way. Then at the last minute her Nana comes to the rescue with jet powered roller skates or a submarine or a Mary Popins style umbrella that allows her to fly just to name a few of her fantastic gadgets.
Nana is a Super Hero GrandMa with all the latests super hero gadgets to get the little girl to the potty in any circumstance from a swim-park to a busy shopping mall to a ski slope, etc.
Little girls like to emulate the cartoon girls they see on TV. Let's be honest. It's just the way it is. Therefore, the issue I have is that I have a little girl who thinks Nina and Nana are AWESOME. So my little angel-face thinks it's really cool to hold it as long as she can so she can "play" Nina having to go. Or better yet, she just lies and says she has to go RIGHT NOW making everyone around her slip into freak out panic mode so we can get her to a potty.
Disney! THIS. IS. NOT. COOL.
Especially when she's out with her Grandmother who does not have rocket powered roller skates or a submarine, and who freaks the Hell out when her only granddaughter starts whining that "she doesn't think she can hold it much longer", sending my poor Mother In Law into sound barrier breaking speeding attempts to save her sofa's upholstery, or some other private or public property from the inevitable explosion of pee-water that's about to spew from our Nina-emulating little angel.
In the Disney "short" Nina always makes it to the bathroom in time and ends each episode with, "That'll NEVER happen again, because now I know, DON'T WAIT TO GO."
Cool. Awesome. It'll never happen again. But it DOES HAPPEN! It happens every damn day Nina!
Disney, please take his short out of rotation. Or just pick one episode ONLY to air. Because with there being multiple times she says that it'll "never happen again", it becomes very frustrating as a parent trying to teach children not to lie and not to repeat mistakes.
There are annoying cartoons and kid programs, but this one needs to go because it's not teaching the lesson you think it's teaching. It's a good concept, but it's. It working, and it Needs To Go.
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