To think these kids programmes should be banned

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All on Nick

Camp Fred, iCarly Shake it up and Victorious.

I don't find this appropriate viewing for a 9 year old or am I just an old fud?!

The new Dick 'n' Dom stuff is educational. All science / history / engineering.

Not at the I Carly stage yet as DD isn't quite 3, but DS is 5.5 and would beg to watch Ben10 and The Regular Show. He was allowed but we noticed a definite change in his behaviour/attitude, I honestly don't think he really understood what he was saying but he really was copying what he was seeing. Lots of cheeky or smart talk, calling things "lame" that sort of thing. We got fed up with it and banned it. Didn't lock the channels, just told him he couldn't watch it, end of. He complained for about a day and then got used to watching the cbeebies and nick jr stuff with DD and rarely asks about Ben10 etc. now.

Maybe some children are more inclined to act out what they see on TV? Our DS has a hugely active imagination. I remember when he was very little he was totally obsessed with Fireman Sam. He spent about a month talking constantly in a welsh accent (a very good one, and we're Irish - he's never been to Wales!!) to the point my DH wanted him to be 'checked out' because he was worried!! I didn't mind the accent so much as the content of the programme. Seems fairly harmless but that main character, Norman Price, really got my blood boiling. He was the cause of all sorts of accidents, fires, catastrophes etc. and was never punished. Set a very bad example imo!

If I had my way, they'd watch Thomas the Tank non stop!

all kids tv is shit really,i cant think of any good ones!

horrible histories is quite good actually i like the songs!

My kids prefere 90's kid shows and they LOVE Violetta, so do I

If you have Nickelodeon, then presumably you have plenty of other kids' TV channels to choose from.

I love Good luck Charlie.

Also no don't Ban it just don't let them watch it. Don't spread your dislike of something to everyone else.

If you have Nickelodeon

Then presumably you're paying for it, and could stop doing so.

I find all of the Nickelodon shows with tween actors are horrendous and badly over acted. Luckily DD doesn't like them but her best friend does and she put it on when over to play, DD told her in no uncertain terms that it was all rubbish

I much prefer Boomerang, can't beat a bit of the old warner borthers cartoons or Tom and Jerry

macnab I'm laughing here as I agree about Norman Price!

But Thomas the Tank has a theme of "down with the oikish Terrible Trucks" and gets my blood boiling too! There is no answer but to give the kids a stick to play with!

You are an old fud.

I think they should only show Phineas and Ferb, Good Luck Charlie and Gravity Falls. Everything else is crap

Never heard of them. We don't have Nickelodeon. Get FreeSat.

"Crap like Tracey Beaker"

Fucksake

I am really out of touch with the latest shows. We only have freeview (came with the telly) but mostly just use it for DVDs. They don't seem to miss out by not watching the latest stuff (things like Ben 10 are so heavily merchandised it's impossible not to know the characters even though they've never seen the show) but I guess that'll change as they get older (6&4). DSD has showed them Phineas and Ferb on YouTube though :o

I do remember a lot of the Disney stuff from a few years ago as my DSDs are now teens and in our old flat we had cable. So there was a lot of suite life etc. And the inevitable high school musical/camp rock phase.

Have now got one DSD into Big Bang Theory, Futurama, Spaced etc and she's getting into anime too. Much more to talk about/share these days :o

I used to be frightened of Worzel Gummidge so it obviously wasn't that appropriate :(

Scary looking scarecrow taking his head off made me scream!

They are remaking the clangers.

I was an eighties child. All the cartoons like he man had a moral message in and actual PLOT

A lot of children's TV is absolutely rubbish. It is practically grooming them for a life dominated by celebrity culture, the cult of showbiz and for girls, particularly, telling them that they have to be kooky but essentially attractive ornaments. Vile stuff.

I limit my DC's exposure to TV but I don't ban things. I use the stuff I don't like to talk to my DC about the elements that concern me. I can't shield my DC from the world, but hopefully I can impart some critical thinking skills that will at least allow them to see through the BS in it.

He-Man and Shera were absolute shite on a stick, quality wise. Toy selling vehicles like Transformers, My Little Pony, Care Bears and others. Not that I didn't enjoy them somewhat as a kid. But permit me to treat anything else you say on children's programming as nonsense if that's the standard by which you measure anything else.

There are PLENTY of excellent children's programmes around today, as many as there ever were. There are a hell of a lot MORE children's programmes being made for a lot of commercial channels, so consequently, there is a lot of stuff that isn't very good. But also we are no longer children, and should not allow nostalgia to cloud our judgement.

When I was little and was watching TV, my mum used to say "What's this rubbish?" "This is noisy" "It's not like Watch With Mother and the Woodentops" or whatever. Nostalgia.

Remaking the clangers?!

These are the lesser of the evils in the face of "the regular show" and the like.

Utter brain numbing shite - all of it!!! No tv/technology five days a week here - luckily my kids prefer a Minecraft/Club Penguin etc on their tv days.