Tracy Beaker is not the spawn of the devil and you are eventually going to have a teenager & hormones on your hands!

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Tracy Beaker is not the spawn of the devil and you are eventually going to have a teenager & hormones on your hands!

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Bloody Tracy has definately given my dcs ideas.

mine too.

Some interesting phrases were reeled off in our house which had come from her early shows.

5 years down the line its a bit more acceptable, and yes inevitable, but when my kids were 8 quite frankly TB was spawn !

is tracy beaker still on i used to watch that! surely shes a little old for a childrens home by now

neither is jacqueline wilson the devil!
'the suitcase kid' book really helped me out when I was young!

I only have to hear the strains of the theme music to have me reaching for the remote and sending the 3 of them somewhere else. The new TB is a bit contrived and should always end with "and the moral of this story is" I think it has run its course stop making it and buy Danni Harmer some curlers!

The books were good though because you could see the reasons etc behind why Tracey acted as she did. Not always shown as the correct way to act as well. The TV programme had a different feel I think.

Tracey Beaker now works in the childrens' home.

I'm sure the books are great but the programme is crap.

My dd loves TB and watches it with heartfelt devotion. She is 12, has an academic scholarship and is head girl. So ner to the Jacqueline Wilson snobs.

and it's so realistic too

Dd has read all of them. The ones she particularly likes she gives to me to read so we can talk about them. They are a brilliant way to talk about social issues. Issues that are the reality for the majority.

I've only ever watched 5 minute snippets and invariably they have me welling up. some poor kid with horrible parents who neglect him/her and just wants to be loved.

dds come and stare intently at my eyes and at my lip (apparently it wobbles) and rip the piss out of me.

My DD loves Tracey Beaker - or did until I saw the last thread on mn and realised that I really should be monitoring her viewing with a bit more attention. Have banned it purely on the basis of what has been said here - am ashamed to say that I still haven't watched it and formed my own judgement. I am BU, I know. All I can remember from the last discussion is that TB calls someone a stupid cow, which seemed like good enough reason for DDs (6 and 4) not to watch.

She is the spawn of the devil, but that's the point isn't it?

It's how Grange Hill was.

You see how she acts, but also why she's like that.

DD1 (10) is on the outskirts of obsession with JW and has learnt a lot of things that I wouldn't have necessarily brought up.

She reads the books over and over and it spurs her on to have a go at writing her own.

I can think of far worse things she could be into.

We have just read 'Best Friends ' and really enjoyed it.

What I don't like about the progamme is that it romanticises care homes and glamorises being in care. I have worked in one and was not like that at all. I think TB is responsible for giving people a very rosy-tinted view of what life is like for children in care.

we love her and jw

I suppose it could be seen as a rose tinted view Themumsnot (DC wouldn't watch it/be allowed to watch it if it was a mini east enders), but then it could also break down barriers in peoples head about children in care.

That they're not monsters to be avoided at all costs, (although they are darling children, so by the law of probablility some must be ) they just have a background story like every other child.