We can all commiserate over our hatred of kids’ TV

I felt bad about admitting I hated Caillou. I mean, he’s just a little kid, inexplicably bald-headed — and a cartoon character.

But when PBS announced the longrunning children’s show had been canceled, and I wrote about how happy that made me, other parents rejoiced, too.

“I hated Caillou too — he was so annoying,” Mary Beth Miller Orson wrote. Alia Rau simply cheered: “Yaaas!” Other parents said things I can’t print, though Caillou would get away with it because his suspiciously calm parents (I suspected Xanax) never held their whiny son accountable for his bad behavior.

Amazing how a cartoon character can inspire such venom in adults. But when your kids are little, you watch what they watch. Some shows seemed designed to torment us.

“I couldn’t stand Caillou. Right up there with Barney & Friends and Thomas the Tank Engine,” Bob Petrie wrote. “Caillou was just awful. The kid was always pitching a fit about something.” I didn’t mind “Barney.”

Cheryl Gill agreed “Barney” was annoying and mind-crushingly cheerful. “But there was lots to learn about being kind to one another and being a good human being,” she wrote.

Unlike the “Teletubbies.”

Louise Naldo’s husband wouldn’t let their kids watch “Teletubbies,” four colorful aliens who had TVs implanted in their tummies and spoke only gibberish.

They gave him the heebie-jeebies.

(Same.)

The older kids get, the better the shows. I loved “The Wiggles,” an Australian children’s music group that had us dancing in the living room. (Actually, I was hot for Greg, the one in the yellow shirt, which explains why we saw “The Wiggles” in concert. Twice.)

Hang in there, parents. It gets better. Except for that annoying “Caillou” theme song forever embedded in your brain.