Horrid Henry at school but banned at home

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I've banned hh at home because I can see it changes ds 6 behaviour even dd 2 starts blowing raspberries. Just found out they watch it at school during wet play. Do you think it is suitable or am Aibu?

Boys like HH, motivated DS2 to finally learn to read. He has so far not turned into a delinquent.

YABU I can't quite believe that you have banned HH and Tracy. If you are worried about these then you had better throw out your TV and lock them up at home because there are a whole lot of other things out there waiting to corrupt them.

DS's year group is predominantly boys and when he got to year 3 his teacher decided to change the 'in class' reading books to HH and Captain Underpants to at least try and grt them to voluntarily open a book! It worked and now we have loadds of both sets lying around, although Diary of a wimpy kid is now the preferred option.
I can't really stand HH but it's more the cartoon characters voice that gets on my nerves than anything!
YANBU to dislike the books or ban them, but as has been said upthread their plenty of worse things waiting in the future!

Can I just clarify as i'm not sure i made it clear on the op... Rightly or wrongly it isn't the books I'm concerned about its the tv programme. What I allow in my own house is one matter but my beef is with the school allowing Kids to watch hh DVD during wet play on first day of term. Surely there are many fun educational DVDs that could have been watched.

Why should they be watching Educational videos during wet play, though?

I can't believe you asked that. It's school they are there to learn. Learning can be fun whether it is sports, games, role play, cultural etc The list is endless but watching a children's tv programme unrelated to any topic they are learning about is not acceptable it's lazy.

Sometimes a shared social experience such as watching HH together us educational. And they are children - sometimes its good to have fun for the sake of it.

It was playtime. I would hate it if someone made me be Educational in my lunch hour.

Really??? On the first day of term??? I maintain it was Laziness or short staffed.There was no discussion afterwards. A good teacher will make learning fun and Play educational.

You might as well say they should be doing educational activities in the classroom during wet play,instead of playing games! It is playtime,right? Or are they not allowed to have fun? Lazy doesn't come into it.

And I'm quite aware that learning can be enjoyable, thanks. I just don't think their spare time - time in which they would otherwise be running around and generally enjoying themselves in the pointless manner that small children do - should be devoted to Improvement just because it's raining.

It's wet play that's the point!
In an ideal world wet play would entail board games or craft, but that would entail an awful lot of managing, and it's the teachers and TAs breaks too.

I think this might be one of those things you look back at and cringe OP.

What difference does the first day of term make?? Is the OPs real name Gradgrind by any chance.....

Doubt it.we'll have to agree to disagree

You are very obviously being unreasonable. It was playtime. Your six year old is old enough to be told not to copy bad behaviour. I think HH books are rubbish, but that's beside the point.

Until I read this, I thought I was pretty much as strict as it gets re appropriate watching of tv and not watching films or playing games of inappropriate age ratings.

I be honest I think YABU, it's horrid Henry which is meant for kids, it's not anything too bad at all. kids will learn to blow raspberries or whatever whether they watch horrid Henry or not.

Agree with SteamingNit.

YABVU

I'm staggered that people have soooo little ability to parent they have to ban a program in order to stop their dc from being "horrid".

And raspberries isn't part of being a kid blowing the odd raspberry in play.When it's time to stop you tell them to.

I have 3 avid HH fans 8,8 and 7. Yes we went through a "worm" faze and dd renamed her teddy Fang but the benefits.HH got twin 1 reading,they make up fab games with their own Purple Hand Club(complete with lists,secret notebooks,loads of writing from my reluctant writer dtwin 1 again) and they luuuurve/loved the books.

The show gives me half an hour extra in bed Sat morning and the sound of chuckles drifting up the stairs instead of bickering.

The CDs are fab Miranda Richardson is just ace on them,loved the Demon Dinner Lady although I could have happily chucked said CD out of the car window during a loooooong car journey through France with the Bottom Song being sung continuously by my 3 over and over again.

I blame the parents, HH's parents that is.

YANBU, DS1 (6 yo) adored HH and read loads of the books himself, but used him constantly as justification for doing horrible things. (ASD, I guess he struggled to make the distinction, despite us clearly explaining many times). I noticed massive changes in his behaviour and attitude when he'd been reading HH. So the books were charity shopped. Parenting is hard enough and if I can take away one bad role model I will. IMO it's the same as not allowing him to watch certain programmes or play computer games which I deem inappropriate.

Banning books? Children's books? Age appropriate children's books?

Why not just burn them and be done with it.

DC2 loves HH and brought a HH book home from school to read this week. I was a bit to find the word 'arse' in it - am I up my own?