NOT along the lines of Jezza btw 
He is currently glued to 'The Real A&E' on Sky Living. Another favourite is 'Police Interceptors'. Generally any documentary about police, car chases or medical problems/injuries. He very rarely chooses to watch cartoons now (old soul at 6/nearly 7) and instead, when he has TV time, will choose Sky Living or similar for any of the above. He generally has a really factual mind, loves documentary's and gameshows and is also a fan of Bear Grylls which he watches with dh.
Some of the stuff on The Real A&E can be a bit graphic/upsetting (although they generally all turn out well in the end), but he is completely unfazed by it, just fascinated, and sometimes makes lists of all the medical problems you can have. At the moment a young girl is having a hook pulled out of her finger which is making me cringe - ds hasn't moved his eyes away 
He's also learnt the names of a few choice drugs from PI (cannabis and cocaine) and also surmised from them that people take drugs by smoking a cigarette with drugs in, or by 'eating drug powder'. We've had a chat about drugs off the back of this and ds's main summary is 'If you take drugs you might get arrested or die. I'm never taking drugs' which to me, doesn't seem a bad opinion to become ingrained from an early age.
Anyway, I've not thought too much about this. Until my sister popped over whilst PI was on and ds1 told her what he knew about drugs and how bad they were and how naughty some people were to take them. She was horrified (to put it mildly) and thinks it's completely inappropriate for a 6 year old to know anything about this and that he shouldn't be allowed to watch these sorts of programs.
Thoughts? Aibu?
Just to add...anything he watches would be in the day time. So swearing is bleeped out and so on. These types of programs generally escalate and get more graphic after the watershed, which he's never watched.
AIBU?
To let my 6 year old watch 'unsuitable' daytime TV?
WalkingInMemphis · 08/11/2014 09:42
Don't feel bad my dd went through a phase of watching all those at a similar age. Aside from the passing bells her other adult programme she's glued to is snog marry avoid. 
at least she's not going to be an orange adult...
Nanny - he definitely grasps what's going on in the A&E programmes, the reasons for the injuries and potential consequences. He's very mentally and emotionally mature for his age (I would say more so than a typical 6/7 year old) so it's not a case that he's watching it without actually understanding iyswim.
I've just looked at his 'list' (he often writes down thoughts he has whilst watching docs - sounds a bit odd, but he really is a thinker).
One of the ailments he's recorded from this morning reads 'Old man with not enuf calceeum'
Underneath he's written his own thoughts/diagnosis - 'Posiblee cawsed by not drinking enuf milk'
I think he sounds fab 
I don't see an issue with it at all, he is learning about the world in a safe environment where he can ask questions if he needs reassurance. I do the same with my dcs and I think as long as they aren't upset by it all it is is a learning opportunity.
My ds is 7 and his favourite programmes are countdown and come dine with me
I don't think there's a problem with anything you've said. Maybe it'll stay with him to be a doctor in the making.
I can't even let my youngest watch age appropriate things because it affects his behaviour 
When DS2 was little there was a program called City Hospital on in the mornings on BBC1. All his friends would be watching Teletubbies and the like, and he'd be saying "I watch Gaby, Mummy" (it was presented by Gaby Rosslin at the time). I remember one day he was ill, and he was lying on the sofa sick bowl in hand, still watching the operations!
He's almost 18 now, is still obsessed with all things medical on the TV, and is applying to universities to do adult nursing, with the aim of being a nurse in a major trauma unit!
I think it's ok on balance. My DS loves all the police programmes. I think they're good in a way cos the programmes are always on the side of law and order. My DS is v anti drugs, dangerous driving etc - I think it's cos of all those programmes. Long may it continue
Not seeing the problem - I've been interested in that kind of thing and horror movies since I was a child and it's never done me any harm, although other people thought it was weird! I still like watching both now, by the way.
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