The Inbetweeners - for 11 year olds?

[StopRainingPlease]

DD (11) recently brought home her year-book for primary leavers. Each child in the top year completed a survey of most embarrassing moment at primary, favourite TV programme, favourite foods etc.

A large number nominated The Inbetweeners as their favourite programme! I was under the impression it was crude and vulgar and aimed at late teens, but never having watched it I turned it on for a bit last night to see if I was right. Within 60 seconds we had discussions of wanking, fucking and shitting .

I'm not feeling superior exactly as my DD's favourite was MI High, which is dross - but at least it's age-appropriate dross!

Favourite song amongst the kids appeared to be Rhianna's S&M . Charming...

Oh, and while I'm ranting, at a recent school assembly (I haven't been for a while) my DD seemed to be about the only girl in her year still in knee-length skirt, polo shirt and school sweatshirt (their uniform) - the others had moved over to the high-school look of mid-thigh skirt (OK not quite the bum-skirt of the local high school, but on the way to it), fat ties and tight jumpers. I know they're all growing up, but am I really the only parent of this school year who thinks this "uniform" is inappropriate?

So I am right, or am I just a out-of-touch prude? Am particularly at the Inbetweeners - what kind of parent lets their children watch this stuff?

ah they grow up so quick

Hmm there's no way in hell I'd let any 11yo of mine watch the Inbetweeners I love it though.

YANBU

You are an out of touch prude. So am I. Let's be out of touch prudes together.

Blimey - My DD is almost in Y9 and I wouldn't let HER watch the inbetweeners! She's 13yrs 5 months.

It's a great programme, but no way would my 11 yr old be allowed to watch it

It's rated 18.

No.

An 11 year old will not understand the humour, being a child still. The Inbetweeners may well feature teenagers, but it is written for adults.

It's rubbish anyway but certainly not appropriate for 11 year olds

Never heard of it - goes off to look .

I found out that my then 12 yo had seen it at friends' houses

so that we could discuss any ishoos that cropped up for him, I let him have a dvd so we could watch it together, as a family

[right on, down with ver kids emoticon]

what twattery on my part. It was even more feeeeeeelthy than I'd remembered and I spent the best part of three hours tittering weakly while trying to dig myself a big hole in the sofa to hide in

That's 1 of my favourite shows
No way would I let a child of mine view it- DD has turned 1, so no chance of it happening soon
Yrnbu

@ springheeledjack!

I wouldn't be overly worried about the clothes or even the music but there is no way I would allow an 11 year old to watch the inbetweeners.

Rubyrubyruby if your 11 yr old "gets" the humour I would find that worrying.

I'm pretty liberal about what my 11 year old watches.

I wouldn't have her watching Inbetweeners. If I'm watching it and she comes into the room I switch it off.

Although to be honest - it'd probably be the best way of putting her off teenage boys I could think of!

lol @ springhelled.

Been trying to think what my favourite programme was at that age but can't remember. I remember watching Grange Hill, the Bionic Woman, Tomorrow's World, Top of the Pops and Jim-'ll-Fix It. Stuff like the Inbetweeners just wasn't around then - anyone remember the fuss over Johnny Rotten swearing?

Hadn't thought about watching stuff at friends - bit of a problem I suppose, especially in these days of easy recording where watershed becomes a bit meaningless, and also tellies in bedrooms (don't have that in my house - it's official, I am an out of touch prude ).

Maybe I shouldn't have been too surprised at all this though - a boy in my other DD's class, when he turned 10 or 11, had a party which involved staying up all night (I mean all night, literally) watching 18-rated films!

No way I'd let me 11 year old watch it. My older teens watch but we can't watch it together.....I have an over active cringe gland!

Definitely not. I love the programme myself but it is total filth.

no way!

The might 'get the humour' in the same way they might appreciate the SFX in some gore fest horror film.

It doesn't mean they ought to be watching it..

I started a similar thread a while back (might have been my first thread on MN) and got laughed out of town by Inbetweeners fans.

But the problem is that, because of the school context, I think it appears as if it is more suitable for younger viewers than it actually is. I was really shocked by the attitudes towards women - yes, they are being expressed in the context of humour, but still....

No it's not complex content. It's adult content.

Wish you people were parents at my school! Though to be fair, it's hard to know from the year-book how many parents do allow this - maybe there are one or two rogue families having Inbetweener showings for lots of their kids' friends .

QueenOfDenial - I found the clothes upsetting, not just for the pre-teen-sexiness aspect, but because it was obvious that my DD didn't fit in. She's had friendship problems all the way through school, and looking at them all it was a visual reminder of this. School uniform is supposed to be a leveller, but unless there's some kind of enforcement of regulations (not sure if this is possible in a state primary) then it really isn't.

She's left now, so I don't have to consider whether to get her a bum-skirt in order to facilitate friendships . (She's not going to the local bum-skirt-wearing high school.)

Meant to add, that all this has made me wonder whether some of her friendship problems are my fault and I'm a bit out of step with the world of today - personally I couldn't care less if I am, but of course I don't want my kids to suffer for it.