day time tv watching, is lazy and only to be done when sick

[NoahVale]

is how i was brought up and i cannot get away from that feeling.

i may be lazy and be mumsnetting but to physically go and turn on the TV seems wrong.
I expect I am in the minority, judging by comments

Tragically, on my day off when kids are at school and as a reward for doing some housework I allow myself an hour or so of (even more tragically) come dine with me/four in a bed/dinner date. It really has come to this.

And yes daytime adverts are very depressingly different from evening ones. The 'Quick Quid' ones - ???

Last week I saw The Lady Vanishes. Love a bit of Margaret Lockwood.

Me too. It was on earlish on a Saturday morning on BBC2 though so I recorded it to watch at a decadent 10.30am the following Monday. I love BBC2 early Saturday films but they start at 6am

Netflix when DD is at school on my days off is the only time I get to watch what I want to watch on TV. No way I'd give that up no matter how slovenly it makes me look

Thanks Emma, I am so sad that Martin is turning out to be a bit of a knob on I'm a Celebrity.

Yes, he's a bit of a disappointment.

DD is at morning nursery but I feel a bit guilty if I just sit and watch TV (I also don't usually feel like watching TV at that time of day, like DH wouldn't want a beer in the morning. That said, I have such a backlog of recorded programmes (DH doesn't like most of the programmes that I do) that I'm going to watch some this winter. I often fiddle about on the internet but also feel I should be getting on with housework, gardening or cooking.

Oh gosh I love watching daytime tv!

I've been a carer to severely disabled ds for the last few years and when he goes off to school for the day I whizz round doing all my chores first thing and then make myself something really nice for breakfast and on goes the telly... love watching This Morning!

It's the only peace I get in the day really. Ds doesn't sleep well and is very demanding and I love having the house to myself and just relaxing. I watch This Morning, then Loose Women... then have a break and sort some washing out etc and then watch some Judge Rinder.

I do have days when I have more to do so can't of course!

I think my old classics teacher would turn in her grave if she knew the woman she had in mind to go to Oxford to study Palaeontology was sitting there watching Joe Bloggs find out if he was the father to 20 kids or whatever...

Oh yes. I had that too. Daytime tv was all terrible American dramas and when Sky came along I'd trawl through all the chat shows (lets see if I remember them: Oprah, Jenny Jones, Ricki Lake, Sally, Jerry Springer... there were a couple of men too but can't remember their names) this was when I was too young to work but the school holidays dragged out when I was a reclusive young teen.

Also brought up to believe anyone willingly on benefits was a lazy bum, taking a day off sick for being hungover was something only scum did and being idle in any way meant my Dad would find me things to do because he couldn't stand the sight of me sitting down while he cleaned the house up. He was right about me being lazy, of course, but I don't share his views on a lot of other things.

I really miss Oprah on Sky and also Dr Phil. Watching those shows when DDs were little sparked my interest in Psychology and eventually lead to me getting an MSc in Psychotherapy and a whole new career.

Anyone going to admit to a bit of Judge Rinder in the afternoon?

Also Dinner Date and the so bad it's good 'Who is doing the Dishes'?

I grew up with the tv on all the time and my mum still has the tv on all day. Since I met my dh many years ago I've become more of a radio person and slowly gave up daytime tv after the dses came along.

My dses are older now and although I would never watch 'daytime tv' I will happily watch Netflix in the daytime and often do. So I guess I have no aversion to watching tv in the day, just daytime tv, which I just find dull now.

I used to love sons and daughters and the young doctors though, they don't make them like that any more.....

I hear you op.

It's an almost catholic level of guilt with me if I put the television on during the day.

I was brought up that we only went into the living room after we had eaten in the evening. I feel guilty sitting on the sofa during the day let alone putting the television on.

I don't judge those who do though.

I always feel a bit wrong turning the tv on in the day. But I'll happily stream music through it.

It must be a guilt thing from the parents.

My mum is incredibly snobby and judgey about daytime tv. And any reality type tv. She rolls her eyes at it all and thinks it's killing off people's brains.

I love winding her up by telling her how much we enjoy X factor and towie.

Sparklingbrook I'll own up to a bit of judge rinder but only when my mums around because she doesn't like any of the TV shows I watch

Anyone going to admit to a bit of Judge Rinder in the afternoon?
Also Dinner Date and the so bad it's good 'Who is doing the Dishes'?

Sadly I work full time Monday-Friday but I do catch up with the Judge at weekends, love him. And the last time I was on holiday for a week there I did manage to watch "Who is Doing the Dishes"....truly awful, but I made sure I watched it all week!

My mother used to say it was the 'thin edge of the wedge' watching daytime TV. We weren't allowed the TV on before Countdown came on during the week, never on a Sunday and only on a Saturday for kids Saturday morning TV and then it had to go off.
It has stuck.

I will watch TV all day for days on end if there's cricket on. Otherwise I'm always looking for a good film to watch in the afternoon - if I'm not busy and I've got time.
Like PPs, there was no daytime TV in my childhood, or recordings or catch up. I love it