Olivia Munn Doesn't Let Her Kids Watch Ms. Rachel“.” Here's Why (Exclusive)

Ms. Rachel is for littles — but not Olivia Munn's.

The Your Friends & Neighbors actress, 44, tells PEOPLE successful this week's screen communicative that she doesn't fto her kids Malcolm, 3, and Méi, 8 months — whom she shares pinch hubby John Mulaney — watch nan YouTube creator's videos, aliases astir kids' shows successful general.

"I cognize kids emotion [Ms. Rachel], but nan point is, if I can't watch it, I'm not going to walk nan remainder of my life going crazy," says Munn. "These kid shows thrust maine crazy."

Munn besides isn't a large instrumentality of cartoons.

"Malcolm asked for Blue's Clues [recently], and I don't cognize who showed him Blue's Clues, but they are connected my s--- database now," Munn says. "I said, 'Hell no. Not successful my house.' John sewage him into nan Spider-Man cartoons, which is not absorbing to me. I put connected Tom Holland's Spider-Man: Homecoming and was like, 'If you want to watch nan real-life ones, past we tin watch that.' It mightiness beryllium a small excessively aged for him, but I can't return nan cartoons."

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Munn says nan only objection is PBS' children's show Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, which she describes arsenic a "great program." Before Méi's presence via surrogate past September, Munn and Mulaney, 42, fto Malcolm watch nan show to thief him hole to go a large brother.

"Daniel Tiger has a small sister, and we'd show him, 'There's a babe sister coming,' " Munn says.

When introducing Méi to Malcolm, Munn says she and Mulaney made judge not to "change his world and personality and responsibilities."

"A batch of times group will beryllium like, 'Oh, you're a large relative now. You're not nan babe anymore. Now you tin thief mommy get nan diapers.' So, each of a sudden, he has each these responsibilities, and he doesn't conscionable get to beryllium carefree anymore," Munn says. "Instead, we would say, 'Now we person 2 babies. There's babe Méi Méi and babe Malcolm.'"

Munn and Mulaney besides focused connected giving Malcolm and nan babe adjacent attention.

"He would say, 'Mommy, travel complete here. Daddy, travel complete here,' and if we were holding nan baby, we would put her down truthful that he wouldn't consciousness that each of a abrupt now we can't beryllium location for him," Munn says. "It's not that we were trying to thatch him that everything he says goes, but we wanted him to person nan modulation pinch her to cognize that we're still present whenever he needs us. Then, yet erstwhile he'd say, 'Put Méi Méi down,' we'd say, 'No, she wants to spot her mommy too.' He smiles, and he understands."

Munn says Méi "loves her brother."

"Anywhere he goes, she lights up," she says. "He's school her really to talk. We person this awesome video of him telling her to opportunity dada, and she says dada correct back. It's astonishing and nosy for him because he gets instant feedback and gratification from her doing nan point that he's school her to do. I asked if he could thatch her mama, but he said no."

After each she's been done successful nan past respective years, Munn — who faced postpartum worry aft Malcolm's birth and has gone done aggregate surgeries and treatments since her breast crab test successful April 2023 — is capable to return each of nan toddler antics successful stride.

"Everything is funny and ray and airy to maine now, for illustration 95 percent of nan time, because it was truthful overmuch to grip back-to-back," she says. "And, nan things that kids opportunity are truthful funny. Malcolm said, 'Mama, I emotion you a small bit. But you emotion maine truthful much.' I said, 'Yeah that's true.' He goes, 'But I only emotion you a small bit.' I said, 'Okay.' And he goes, 'But do you still emotion maine truthful much?' I go, 'I'll ever emotion you truthful much, nary matter really overmuch you emotion me.' He says nan silliest things, and sometimes he says really mean things which I won't repeat, that make maine laugh."