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

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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

Haven't read it all but agree with Morloth's posts on the first page - its not mutually exclusive. My DS (6) is a big Doctor Who fan and has been for at least 18 months. He also likes Zingzillas.

I like that my DC have opinions about what they want to watch, which is usually not that much.

I just loved the first Matt Smith/Amy Pond series. A family event, all of us on the sofa, all engrossed. Just bliss.

really interesting thread - great to hear all your experiences and viewpoints. I think those that have said the 2 are not mutually exclusive are probably right. The do have to grow up and progress and be able to at least know what the other children are talking about I think, but as long as they arent made to feel silly to carry on watching what they enjoyed when younger then I think that is probably a good balance.

In our house we do have a wii and a ds - largely because I am into them - so today (raining) we have played some mario galaxy and watched Spot and Bob the Builder - 5y old and 2y old transfixed by all of it. We are cautious watchers of Star Wars while 2y old having his nap but, as we don't watch Dr Who, I think we can do without that. Agree about no soaps - utter tosh, really don't think kids need to watch that (sorry is a bugbear of mine - my mother won't leave the house until she's watched them all).

Initially was going to go down the no guns route but of course it is totally unrealistic - they will use kitchen roll holders - we have plenty of water pistols, light sabres etc but I try, still, to steer clear of real gunny type one - machine guns and the like.

This thread has made me realise that in his reception year, the thing the children said about girls, brown babies etc was far, far mmore influential on him than what they all watched on TV or where each child was on the (very polarised) wii/ds vs no wii/no ds debate. I know they discuss these issues in PHSE or whatever it is called and we discuss them at home - that some people have these ideas but that we think it is rubbish, so I guess that is all you can do for them! (the brown babies comment BTW was made on the coach on way home from a school trip in the last week of term so I don't think anyone would have heard it - they certainly would not tolerate any nascent rascism/sexism or bullying at his school I am pleased to say).

LOL at the Garlics - reminds me of Christmas time when ds came home to inform me that his play was about Jesus, son of Cod.