Trick your tyke with Netflix’s New Year’s Eve 2019 Countdown Specials

Whether it actually works or not, Netflix is bringing back its New Year’s Eve Countdown Specials for parents who want to get their children to sleep early. The streaming service launched its 1-2-minute long on-demand countdowns on December 26. It’s based on Netflix’s original kids and family shows, which makes the countdowns fun for the kids who love these shows, but also helps Netflix promote its roster of content. This year, it includes characters from four DreamWorks Animation series—The Boss Baby: Back in Business, All Hail King Julien, Tales of Arcadia, and Spirit Riding Free—as well as Fuller House, Beat Bugs, Pinky Malinky, Super Monsters, Motown Magic, True and the Rainbow Kingdom, Larva Island, Skylanders Academy, Prince of Peoria, and Alexa & Katie.

Netflix claims these have been popular with parents. Since its first countdown with King Julien back in 2014, an average of five million members annually choose to watch these countdowns. If your kids are staying up tonight, though, some probably want to do that because Taylor Swift’s Reputation stadium tour film is airing on the service on December 31^st.

Source: Variety

Netflix still wants to help you trick your kids with new fake New Year’s countdown

If your children haven’t discovered it yet (or you’re trying it out for the first time), Netflix has a kid-friendly fake New Year’s Eve countdown video ready for 2017. The idea behind this clip is to show it to your child/children a few hours before midnight and then send them off to sleep afterwards—it’ll supposedly give you time to party with the adults after.  Head to Netflix and search for Countdowns. You can see clips from 10 Netflix videos (including the likes of Chasing Cameron, Fuller House, Trollhunters, All Hail King Julian, Beat Bugs, etc.) with each video lasting  between one and five minutes. Common sense dictates you don’t try this on kids that can tell time, how else are you going to fool them to head to bed early?

Source: Lifehacker