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Trading Spaces: Boys vs. Girls (The Hub)

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Kids redo each other's rooms in fun series.

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What parents need to know

Parents need to know that, taking off from the Trading Spaces phenomenon, this kid-friendly show has teams of boys and girls redecorate each other's rooms with the help of carpenters and designers. The best part of each episode is seeing how the kids try to make the rooms reflect their occupant's personalities, using wonderful insight into their likes and dislikes. The gender stereotypes are kept to a minimum, and the end results are very happy.

Educational value: Kids will probably pick up a few tips/ideas for real-world room redos.
Positive messages: Overall the series' tone and take-aways are positive, with participants excited about both doing the remodeling work and seeing the finished results.
Positive role models: The kids are upbeat and positive, and gender-based stereotypes are kept to a minimum.
Violence & scariness: Not applicable.
Sexy stuff: Not applicable.
Language: Not applicable.
Consumerism: Not applicable.
Drinking, drugs, & smoking: Not applicable.
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What to talk about

Talk to your kids
  • Families can talk about making over your kid's room. Together you could brainstorm creative (and inexpensive) ways to make your child's room reflect his or her interests and personality.
  • Kids: Why is it so important for kids' rooms to reflect who they are?

What's the story?

What's the story?
Two boys and two girls get the chance to redecorate each other's rooms, making them into reflections of their owner's personalities. As they work, the kids have to compete in various challenges, often involving vast quantities of messy goop (usually pink for girls and blue for boys, but that's the limit of the gender stereotyping). They are aided in their renovations by carpenters and designers (and again care is taken in the genders here; there are female carpenters and male decorators) and by a team of "labor savers," silent folks in hazmat suits who can be won in the challenges to help with the grunt work.

Is it any good?

Is it any good?
 
It's fun to watch the kids figure out what interests the rooms should reflect and the results -- from a lawnmower bed to an art gallery of pet portraits -- are fun and lively. The results are amazing, and though parents may wonder how long a kid will like sleeping in a wizard's lair before asking for something different, the kids end up delighted and feeling incredibly accomplished.

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TV Details
TV Rating: TV-Y7
Network: The Hub
Genre: Reality TV
Where to watch: The Hub
This review was written by Sarah Wenk
 
 

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lil_chegona
teen, 15 years old
 
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woodstock101
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Good show !!! (but on kind of late)
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Trading Spaces: Boys vs. Girls
Sexual Content (Not an Issue): None. Violence (Not an Issue): None. Language (Not an Issue): None. Social Behavior (On): Kids give their friends' rooms makeovers. Commercialism (Not an Issue): None. Drug/Alcohol/Tobacco (Not an Issue): None.
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Megan96
teen, 15 years old
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I think the show is mostly okay, I just don't like the boys vs. girls part of it. I don't really like the idea of boys and girls trying to prove that they are the better gender, and I know that this show doesn't really talk about that, it's just something that the title alludes to...
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SuPeRsTaR4evanEva
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perfect for all ages
I think the show should come back it was a thing me and my now older sister still watch it it is an epic i wish it was back on the air i wouldn't mind being on it
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izziebizziez
teen, 15 years old
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I WANT MY ROOM DONE NOW!!!!!! PLEASE:)
Love it!!!! i really want to be on the show my room is boring it looks like i am a kindergardener....... I alredy have the people that could do it with me!!!!!
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wings red 88
teen, 18 years old
 
I lauged...and got really interested
I love to watch Trading Spaces Boys vs Girls! I love to see the ideas they come up with and love some of the things they put into the room.Like in Luis vs. Amara. I loved the wall they put up. It was so cool! Another thing i liked was the chair. That was AWSOME! I love to see what their rooms looked like before and after. It is so cool! I would love to be on the show!
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Panda110
teen, 15 years old
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Ok
It's ok, I guess...the rooms they design just don't leave much space for walking around and they aren't very practical if you know what I mean.
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MaceWindu1812
kid, 12 years old
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What I say.
I say I have been looking for a way to join the show I want an ancient Egypt room very badly.
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ginaoverstreet
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PLEASE!!!
I really want to be on the show!!! It looks like fun and it's cool how they change rooms. But how do you enter???
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yukie
kid, 11 years old
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hi I am 10 years old and I really want my room redone I live in Houston Texas
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mya hollenczer
kid, 10 years old
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How I feel
I love it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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reptile
kid, 12 years old
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please
please let me be on the show I have very limeted space for mt toys I also have the people picked out for the show. please read this review. signed conner, tanner, sydny, melissa
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swimmingangel921
teen, 14 years old
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OMG it was totally awesome how they take everything out and redesigned it
im monica and i want to be on your show its awesome and my favorite color is baby blue and if I were on t.v. i would want it as a beach theme its awesome i barely go to the beach and it will seem thtt i go to the beach evey day i will be so happy if u pick me and my friend NIcol Gilgerours is going to be on your show shes my bffle lol BYE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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cjyemem
kid, 13 years old
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please!!!!!!!!
hello i am carmine yevoli i realy want to be on this show.
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kid, 13 years old
 
I thought it was so cool!
I think Trading spaces Boys vs. Girls is so cool. I would love to be on the show with my best friend. Since, we are both girls we can not. I would to be able to do it with her little brother though. They share a room. Well, this is to all kids my age "Watch Trading spaces boys vs. girls!!!"
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little tess2
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it was cool
it is a cool show 2 wach and i dont see any thing bad in it =)!
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bugjen10
kid, 13 years old
 
i like this show so much i want to be on it
i like this show so much that i even want to be on it i cant find out how get on it though i have even searched the internet trying to find out how to be on it! by the way i wrote this not my parents
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