Do you watch your own shows on TV while your children are around?

[Eldermileniummam]

We have young DC and we let them watch TV but try to do other things as well. If they're not watching something then the TV is off. I love TV but only watch it in an evening when they're in bed.

As a child I remember my mum watching the soaps (not sure how young I was) and kids' tv wasn't on constantly like it is now. In theory I should be able to watch tv sometimes provided it's family friendly but then I don't want the tv on constantly as it was in my parents' and still is:

What do you do in your house?

I watch the 1% club while I’m folding the washing. DD is always slightly outraged by it, which makes me think it’s a good idea for her to learn not everything revolves around her preferences!

To me it seems worse to watch tv shows on an iPad with headphones around your kid.

As long as shows aren’t completely inappropriate I don’t see what’s wrong with children realising certain things in the home, like the tv, belong to the family and everyone has a turn.

There was a CBeebies phase but never a CBBC phase for our DC.

Eldest is 19 and got into films from quite an early age. Animations Disney and Ghibli etc. from 5 he could engage with and dissect. We had (still have) dvd/blueray and they formed family viewing at weekends when he was younger. As regards TV, I like quiz shows and watching Pointless was a family thing from primary years and was probably the only family viewing at that age.

I do like a box set/streamed tv series every now and then and DCs often share same. As far as DH is concerned, there's footie, rugby etc. but no one is that keen

Mine are old enough to enjoy most shows that I watch now. I dont watch certain ones if there inappropriate till theyre in bed though.