In thinking this is barking and a bit funny

[sweetkitty]

So my brothers has an 18 month old DS, he has now decided that he will only watch The Singing Kettle DVDs as he doesn't want him growing up with an English or Anerican accent as he's heard the little girl next door playing and she has an Anerican accent from watching Disney Junior.

In case you don't know The Singing Kettle are Scottish children's shows and you can buy DVDs of them, my brother is very antiEnglish so hates the idea of his DS having an English accent.

I told him that all children put on a voice when they are playing and it's usually kind of American don't know why and he that he will have the accent of where he was born regardless what cartoons he watches.

As an aside I often wonder what accent American children ur on whilst playing?

My neices were born in London and moved to Scotland when they were 5 and 3, it was amazing how quickly they lost their accents.

My DF and uncle grew up in North Shields, then moved to Surrey at about 4 and 7. They are vair vair Home Counties now but do a cracking Byker Grove on demand

Just as I was reading this thread I came across this Irn Bru ad. I get that it is tongue in cheek and Irn Bru specialise in doing these sort of ads (I loved the Fanny one) but this ad does play on small-minded parochialism and xenophobia.

I'm not offended by it, but it would be interesting to see the reactions if the roles were reversed or if the boyfriend was Jewish/Sikh/Black.

Surely if he is really really anti English he should be rejecting the language completely and speaking only Gaelic.

WOW! Lol, YANBU

But I watched loads of American TV as a teen, and when I did my drama finals, I always seemed to put on an American accent.

he is mental obviously dd loved the singing kettle didnt make her anymore scottish than she already is, dd2 wasn't fussed and liked nick jr and disney and didnt do an american accent although went through a dora phase of OLA

oh and grown dd has worked with the singing kettle and apparently artie is evil

I seen someone on their facebook page saying Artie made her wee boy cry backstage for not getting changed out of his stage costume quickly enough (he was one of the volunteer children they have at a couple of points in the show). Mind you they have been touring for 30 years I bet you would get fairly scunnered dealing with overexcited children all that time.

DD said they are actually really crabby and a tiny bit scary her illusion was shattered they just do little bits of the show now but he is involved in production , and cilla has a potty mouth [

We were there the other week, the new girl seems nice enough but it's not the same anymore.

It's always sad hearing about bigots trying to infect their kids with their unpleasant attitudes.

I think she said the new people are lovely, I havn't seen them in about 15 years I think we are going at christmas with the toddlers at work

YBIBU - the Happy Gang were way better than the Singing Kettle