History Recap / BlueyMumSchool

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: See AbusiveParents above. Most of the children are baloons that were blown up by hand, but Greeney is a helium balloon, making him 'wander', unlike his siblings. At several points, Bluey singles Greeney out for disobedience, isolates and punishes him for something that, while it's seen as bad behavior from the outside, is actually well out of his control. It's like an abusive parent singling out their disabled or neurodivergent child from their 'normal' siblings and punishing them for what is, in this case, essentially a birth defect. Again, the whole thing is make-believe, but still.

* AnAesop:
** Being a parent doesn't necessarily mean you'll always have perfect, obedient children. Having rowdy or rebellious children is sometimes part of parenthood.
*** On that note, sometimes, there's a [[FreudianExcuse reason]] behind your child's rowdiness, and a good parent tries to understand that.
** Even the best of mothers "[[ParentsAsPeople fail Mum school]]". But the important thing is to keep trying and keep learning.
** Sometimes, one can learn from other GoodParents how to parent their own children. Bluey has a rather two-dimensional approach towards her "children", especially Greeny. It's only once she observes Bandit figuring out why Bingo is fidgetty that Bluey's treatment towards Greeny improves.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: See AbusiveParents above. Most of the children are baloons that were blown up by hand, but Greeney is a helium balloon, making him 'wander', unlike his siblings. At several points, Bluey singles Greeney out for disobedience, isolates and punishes him for something that, while it's seen as bad behavior from the outside, is actually well out of his control. It's like an abusive parent singling out their disabled or neurodivergent child from their 'normal' siblings and punishing them for what is, in this case, essentially a birth defect.

* AbusiveParents: Bluey is this to her brood of balloons at first. She allows "Greeny" to hit "Wingdust", hits all of them with a roll of wrapping paper when they don't walk in a straight line and keeps "Greeny" underneath a crampet laundry basket when he is unable to stop wandering of. Of course, since it's all for pretend and Bluey doesn't know any better, it's all harmless.

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* ParentsAsPeople: Bluey falls under this trope in her own simulated way. Her treatment of her balloon "children" borders on [[BlackComedy comically abusive]] at times, given she's too young to understand acceptable parenting skills yet. Still, she does care for them, and is sad when the rowdiest child leaves.

* BittersweetEnding: Greeney flies off never to return, and Bluey basically failed at Mum School. On the bright side, Bluey is happy for her "child" that Greeney gets to satisfy his wanderlust, and Chili comforts that [[YouAreNotAlone even the best mother's initially fail Mum School]]. As such, Chili assures Bluey that tomorrow, they can try again.

* FreudianExcuse: Bluey eventually sits down with Greeney and tries to figure out why he keeps floating away. She figures out that his floating is because he has wanderlust and wants to explore.

** Sometimes, one can learn from their own parents how to parent their own children. Bluey has a rather two-dimensional approach towards her "children", especially Greeny. It's only once she observes Bandit figuring out why Bingo is fidgetty that Bluey's treatment towards Greeny improves.

* BittersweetEnding: Greeney flies off never to return, and Bluey basically failed at Mum School. On the bright side, Bluey is happy for her "child" that Greeney gets to satisfy his wanderlust, and Chili comforts that [[ParentsAsPeople even the best mother's initially fail Mum School]]. As such, Chili assures Bluey that tomorrow, they can try again.

* AnAesop: Being a parent doesn't necessarily mean you'll always have perfect, obedient children. Having rowdy or rebellious children is sometimes part of parenthood.

* BlackComedy: Bluey corrals her brood of balloon children by hitting them with a wrapper paper roll and confining the least manageable to a laundry basket cage

* MeaningfulName: What else would Bluey name a round, white-colored balloon ''other'' than "Pearl"?

* MeaningfulName: What else would Bluey name a white "pearl-colored" balloon ''other'' than "Pearl"?

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Each of Bluey's balloon "children" is a different color. The red one is Kiwi, Wingdust is purple, the yellow is Lightning Bolt, Dronigan is colored pink, and Pearl happens to be white-colored. And no guessing which one is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Greeney]].

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience:

* AnAesop: Being a parent doesn't necessarily mean you'll always have perfect, obedient children. Having rowdy or rebellious children is sometimes part of parenthood.