to be disapointed my son watched Frozen in reception class yesterday?

[Jude76]

I hate to moan but we don't do Disney in our house. Not yet anyway. But yesterday my reception aged child came home singing Frozen after apparently watching it in class as a treat. I just don't feel comfortable with it. Am I being unreasonable?

Anyway. I didn't get into this to have a debate

... then posting about it in AIBU was a bit misguided wasn't it.

You can't just say 'I don't do Disney, so they shouldn't have shown a Disney film' and not be prepared to be told YABU or to be asked WHY you don't do Disney.

Why? My DS watched frozen in his class too i was disappointed he wasn't singing haha

I don't judge you for avoiding Disney (and therefore all it's overpriced merchandise also) and don't think a child who has 'missed out' on Disney is missing anything much at all. It's just films with songs. Some of them are catchy, some are plain annoying. While we're here i'd like to say i was completely underwhelmed with Frozen. Really don't get the fuss.

I say this as a parent of 4 girls, the 3 eldest of which grew up watching all the bloody Disney films. Youngest is too young to watch yet.

There are much better things to do with a child than plonk them in front of the telly. We all do it sometimes. It's handy to plonk them there at home when you're very busy for a while, or not well ... but at school? Nope. It's not what we send them for.

Give it a couple of years and the school will be banging on in letters home about how every minute of education time lost is a tragedy - and then be sticking a video on for a whole lesson when the teachers leaving, ill or in a meeting or some such

Ds2's experience of the first term of Year 1 was like this. They just seemed to spend their time watching DVDs and doing colouring in I actually saw this for myself when we went in to collect him to go and look around another school.

Needless to say we pulled him out and sent him to a school who actually believed in teaching as opposed to childminding.

DVDs are a quick and easy way of getting kids to behave themselves and giving the teachers/assistants a break.

I think YANBU to be disappointed in the school.

And I like Disney very much, I've even got my own lanyard for badges I only say this here as it's anonymous..

OP you seem way over involved with the minute details of your kids life.

Do you have any hobbies etc?

I think taking an interest in your kid's school day is a perfectly reasonable thing to do Igota

I'm not a massive Disney fan myself, but you are being very U. Firstly, you simply can't impose your preferences / parenting ideals on a whole class of children.

Secondly, I can't see anything wrong with a small amount of screen time for children this age. Obviously it shouldn't be used regularly or for a protracted period, but if used carefully it can be a great strategy to relax a class full of small kids. For all you know the teacher was using the quiet time to set up for the next activity.

We're talking about very little children here. They're far too young for sustained periods of formal teaching. Be grateful that your DS is happy and settling in well. I'm sure the teacher knows what she's doing - trust her.