to want my little boy to enjoy being a little boy?

[thisisyesterday]

ds1 is 5 and a bit. He still quite likes watching Thomas with his little brother, building big railways with his wooden trainset, playing with mud and sticks in the garden, helping me bake in the kitchen....

but he keeps coming home from school saying "D and G say Thomas is for babies. they watch Dr Who, Dr Who is cooler"

ffs. thjey're FIVE years old! dr who??? really??
I feel so sad that he can't just enjoy being a little boy and doing stuff little boys like because his "friends" at school are telling him that it's babyish and that programmes aimed at adults are so much "cooler"

he's so easily led bless him, and he has never seen Dr Who in his life, but now talk is all on daleks and all sorts

I wasn't expecting this for a while yet

[notnowbernard]

Do the other boys have older siblings I wonder

[going]

They probably watch Thomas too and have not seen Dr WHo either!

[MarshaBrady]

Ah that's bad luck. Ds is 5 and 1/2 and not a mention of Dr Who yet (from friends).

A couple have watched Iron Man and the like but I not enough for peer pressure, tg.

[SacharissaCripslock]

I know what you mean. My DS1 is 5 too and I am home educating him until he's 7 and I've found one of the unexpected bonuses is that he's not got that peer pressure of what's cool or not. I like that he can watch Gigglebiz and find it funny without being told he's a baby by classmates. Two more years of bliss then he'll be coming home with similar stories I bet.

[thisisyesterday]

nope neither of the other 2 have older siblings and they definitely have watched Dr Who as heard the mums talking about it in the playground.
one of whom said she only watches it with him there as it scares her

[lifeissweet]

I asked my year 1 class what they want to be when they grow up. One said, 'a bounty hunter.' When I asked what he thought that meant he said, 'they get people and kill them or beat them up for money. I saw it on a DVD. it's cool.' It is so depressing. My son is the same age and he loves Pingu and Fireman Sam. His deafness makes him a little more immune to the 'cool' factor too, thankfully.

[littleducks]

I went to a birthday party of a 3yr old dr who fan and was does seem a shame when they cant be little boys for long

[UptoapointLordCopper]

They can be quite versatile. DS2 (4yo) is terribly into Ben10 at first, but now that hte initial flush is over he requests Thomas and Bob the builder and even In the Night Garden. He is not bothered by being a baby. They get babies in the nursery and he thinks they are funny.

[thisisyesterday]

lifeissweet that's awful!

today ds1 came out with "D wants to get a gun and shoot S and kill her" (S being a little girl in their class)

it astounds and saddens me, it really does

we also get the Ben 10 thing too uptoatpoint. Again, ds1 has never seen it, but he wanted a ben 10 lunchbox and flask and knows the names of all the characters in it just from playground talk!

[MudandRoses]

DS (4.5)'s best friend has been watching Dr Who for a while; also Star Wars (!!) PowerRangers, Ben 10, etc. I don't think it's age appropriate; DS has never seen any of these but still parrots the lingo and has a keen sense of the 'coolness'. I try not to respond to it, I don't intend to let him watch any of this at home for a long while, and so far, he still enjoys being 'little' (story cd's and watching Bagpuss/Tom n Jerry/Bambi!)

[Ripeberry]

Dr Who is for little boys....even grown up little boys

[thisisyesterday]

ripebery, it's absolutely fine for grown-up little boys i have one of those too, who watches it on iplayer!

[LillianGish]

YANBU. I remember ds coming home from school when he was five and saying he didn't want to wear his Thomas T-shirt for school anymore "because Thomas is too babyish". It broke my heart too - especially when he added he didn't mind still wearing it at home. The funny thing is he's seven now and he's suddenly got into watching Fireman Sam again on one of the children's channels - the new computer animation which according to him is less babyish than the original . Still my little boy - even if he's learned to act a bit cooler for his mates at school, all part of learning to fit in I suppose.

[LadyBiscuit]

We have apparently ditched thomas in favour of spiderman. I hate it

[RhinestoneCowgirl]

I'm dreading this a bit as DS (just about to turn 4) will be going to school in September and is still v much a 'little boy'. He knows about Dr Who but has designated it 'too scary' without even seeing it. In fact he told me the other day that he thinks that all DH and I do in the evenings after he's gone to bed is watch scary tv.

He does sometimes come out with the 'I've got a gun and I'm going to shoot you' line, seems to be a boy thing.

[Morloth]

DS has been watching Dr Who with DH since he was about 4ish. He also still plays with his trains at 6yo. We also get regaled with stories from Ben 10, spiderman, transformers and all the rest of it.

They are not mutually exclusive you know.

The best part is when he is playing with his friends and they make up a game involving all of these things together and mix it all up.

Matt Smith v. popular with the under 6 set, he is nice and bouncy and acts just like them and Amy Pond has very nice hair.

[NoahAndTheWhale]

DS is 6.8 and at the end of year 1. He and DH built a lovely train track at the weekend with lots of Thomas engines

He generally watches either CBeebies or Peppa Pig although he does also watch Top Gear. He is definitely still a "little boy" and doesn't seem to get teased for it in any way.

[UnquietDad]

Doctor Who is for everyone. My DD was 2 when she first saw it (on video)! She was 5 when it came back with Christopher Eccleston and she loved it so much that she cried when he regenerated.

[Morloth]

I don't blame her UnquietDad Eccleston is my favourite "new" Doctor as well.

[UnquietDad]

But it didn't take long for Tennant to become her favourite! No tears when he regenerated though.

[JustKeepSwimming]

Really UQD? I'm with Thisisyesterday.

Sometimes I feel like i'm the only one trying to let my kid be a kid.

DS1 is only 4 so no, he doesn't watch Dr Who, Power Rangers, Spiderman films, etc.

He came home from pre-sch quoting all sorts of stuff particularly about Power Rangers.

In fact the 'leader of his gang' was a power ranger fan and it led to the gang excluding girls (even though i believe there is a girl PR?) and fighting them, excluding a boy-of-Pakistani-origin (cos he doesn't speak English properly) and lots of aggression & violence.

I complained to pre-sch several times. Luckily DS1 has left there now. I will be far quicker to complain if he comes home from school with such stories.

[Morloth]

Tennant was just missing something. Eccleston had a kind of "dark" edge to him. Smith as I said seems very bouncy. I do like Amy the best of all the companions though, she is a bossy redhead, most excellent.

Anyway, sorry OP, as you were.

[UnquietDad]

Well, I have a DS as well as he is 7, so on the cusp I suppose between being a "little boy" who loves his teddies and has just grown out of Thomas/Postman Pat, but is also getting into dinosaurs, Ben-10, Doctor Who, football stickers and so on.

It's not a problem. I watched it from the age of 4 (Tom Baker's first series) and I am a well-adjusted human being!... I hope...

[Morloth]

There are girl power rangers and I would dispute anyone claiming that any of them speak English properly - they also come in a variety of races. Mostly they seem to say Hyah.

I actively enjoy all this stuff though so I am probably the mother you are all horrified by.

[BaronConker]

Last summer DS1's best mate kept getting DS1 (5) and DS2 (2) to play some strange imaginary game where they were the characters Nicholas, Danny and Danny's dad. I asked DS1 later what game it was, and he kept saying 'hot foos', which I eventually worked out was Hot Fuzz, slightly misunderstood by DS1 and with a Leicester accent... Could NOT BELIEVE that a 5 year old had been watching Hot Fuzz - I've seen it, it's bloody hilarious, but bloody bloody, with loads of shooting, swearing etc. He watches it in his room at night before going to sleep, and last week informed us his new favourite film is Hell Boy. Scary.