To BAN my child from these shows

[prettyfly1]

Like most of us I am not adverse to my six year old watching some tv, but recently he started watching the Cartoon Network. I dont really like a lot of the shows but let it ride for a little bit until I cant actually bear it. Now, one of his rewards of a morning used to be getting tv once he was totally ready of a morning. Ben 10 was on and it worked so I was fine with it. Today I noticed that the line up has changed to two shows that are just horrid. Adventure Time and The Regular show are offensive, unfunny and littered with adult humour that makes ren and stimpy (the equivalent from my generation) look like Something Special. Just to give you an example line from this mornings Adventure Time:

Lead Character trying to get a key: "You had better put out if you are going to flaunt it like that".

Cue TV going off. MASSIVE tantrum from unwitting son and me wondering how far cartoon makers can take this sort of humour for a childs channel. I love the subversive humour in some shows and think things like Family Guy can be very funny but in the right context and at the appropriate age - this is just too far.

Keep an eye ladies - yesterday my and two of his friends came out of their school shouting "yo mamma" which apparentlly means "you are fat" after one of them saw it on The Regular Show. YUCK, YUCK, YUCK. Worst of it is, I can turn it off for him but his little friends all watch it so the vile, violent and misodgynistic humour in them still gets shared around. Lovely.

P.S. Does anyone have a contact for the Cartoon Network so I can whinge make a helpful comment?

Your son would not understand it would he? So why are you concerned he is six, what you understand goes straight over his head.

If you want to contact Cartoon Network why don't you look at their website or even Google.

Perhaps because children of that age repeat everything they hear especially if they think it is funny. And hearing my son get cross when something isnt doing what he wants and saying "you had better put out if you are going to flaunt it" because he thinks its fine after seeing a similiar remark on one of his shows, possibly at school, is not my idea of amusing. Understanding and repeating are two very different things. Found the contact now.

I wouldn't have though ds would "get" the humour of the show, my ds and DD certainly don't and cartoon network is a regular feature in our house. I don't see an issue really and my son and daughter certainly do not go around copying what they have heard on a cartoon in RL.

Cartoon network is shit. Don't let him watch it if it bothers you.

I don't let dd watch cartoon network or boomerang, I tell her to stick to nick JR cartoonito and Disney YANBU

It's basically SHIT going into their ears and there is no need whether they understand it or not

That sounded a bit pissy " my son and daughter certainly do not go around copying what they have heard on a cartoon in RL" :) apologies, didn't mean to come over so high and mighty!

Dd is 5 btw and of course kids repeat what they hear

If he doesnt understand it I dont see the harm that much...

Yo mamma means "your mum" as in "yo mamma is sooo fat/ugly/stupid..." etc

The fave when I was at school was "yo mama so fat her belt is the equator" or something along those lines.

So yo mamma itself isnt offensive, so dont worry.

I shall take way my with apologies

Yh I missed that part, yo mamma is not offensive until it is followed by something else

*away ffs I shall stop posting now

There was a short period when ds was about 6/7 when he liked CN. Just as I was about to ban it, he lost interest anyway. It is ghastly

5t doesn;t matter if they understand it or not. They are hearing it and it is becoming part of their mental furniture. You are normalizing it by letting them wathc it. So no, you are not being at all unreasonable to ban it. I did too.

Lol - it doesnt sound pissy - I am muchly [envious] as mine does! I think I am just a bit bothered as I rarely see girls shows echoing the same sort of shit humour. It is off permanently now but I do feel a bit bad for DS as they do like to chat about the shows and I dont want him feeling left out (pretty tries to hide the evidence of not wanting to be her own mother )...

I agree. Stuff like that shouldn't be in programmes for kids. What ever happened to them just being kids? Just because they don't understand it doesn't mean it's ok to sneak it in there! Using that logic it would be ok to do and say all sorts in front of kids because they don't understand. My daughter comes home with words, phrases and hand gestures she's picked up at nursery and some of the time you can really tell which programme or film it has come from. I don't want her picking anything else up!

Thanks seeker - I did wonder if I was being a bit OTT but that is how I felt too.

I think YABateenybigU. DSS loves Adventure time and is a bit obbsessed with it tbh. We also let him watch Family Guy. The jokes go over his head and by the time he's old enough to get the jokes it won't be a problem anyway

How old is your DS loopy? I suppose we all have different opinions but I would not allow mine to watch Family Guy for love nor money - giggidy giggidy guy would stop me if nothing else.

putting out is another phrase for having sex.

If you listen really carefully to most of the Disney shows, they speak to each other in a really VILE manner all the way through. There might be some big moral thrown in at the end of it but my kids don't remember that! They just copy the preceeding 25 minutes of snipping one liners.

Hannah Montana - the way the characters interact is just plain aggressive! Same with that Suite Life on Deck....

This is why we only have Freeview