Comic Relief before 9pm

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6 year old DC came out of school full of Comic Relief chatter and asked to donate their week's pocket money to the charity. Fine and dandy, we switched on at about 8pm and they showed a short film about a child and their grandmother collecting rubbish in Nairobi. DC was even keener to donate, so we texted in to donate money from all of us. Watched a couple of skits and then they showed a video of a 13 month old girl dying of malaria. Actually dying on the screen despite CPR and being put into a body bag and wheeled away. You can imagine the effect that had on a 6 year old. We've been up half the night with them having nightmares about dying babies.

AIBU to think that wasn't suitable viewing pre-watershed?

I agree that the 'comedy' was dire. I was astonished by the content of Vic and Bob sketch.

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I think children in need does more showing what fundraising around the country people have done, CR could take note ..leave the 'comedy' later , more music performances etc perhaps.

YANBU! I thought the whole thing was dire and in poor taste nearly the whole way through. DD(13) actually said she didn't think it was suitable viewing for her never mind little dc. We enjoyed Take That but that was about it.
The baby dying was a shock for us... I really thought pre 9pm the baby would make it and it would have been powerful enough to make us donate money.
CR seems to have lost their way IMO. Trying to shock us into doing something but they just made us turn over instead. We did donate, inspite of the program not because of it.

Why does OP feel the need to swear at other posters, when she's complaining about CR and watershed stuff? (And yes, a 6 year old should be in bed before 8 IMO. Are you going to swear at me next?)

Do you think it's acceptable no warnings were given when children were watching Pacific?

Sorry, I wandered off

Yes, I don't think this required a warning.
It did prompt a conversation with my DCs too, Including 7 yo DS4.
I don't think it does any harm for our children to get an inkling about just how privileged they are.

And yes, a 6 year old should be in bed before 8 IMO.

Why?

I don't think it does any harm for our children to get an inkling about just how privileged they are

Me neither. I don't think they need to see a small child convulse to death to do that though.

Ha Ha, won't dignify Why? with a comment!!!

Why not? I have a very happy child who is doing well at school and extra curricular activities, who is well rested and healthy. Just as I couldn't sleep at 8pm, neither could she. She sleeps 9pm - 7.45am which is plenty of sleep. I go to bed at midnight at the earliest, so I don't really want waking before 7am, which is what the same amount of sleep starting at 8pm would be (or before 6am if she was sleeping by 7pm). Why would she need to be awake for more than 30 mins before going to school? It's plenty of time to do what needs doing.

It works for our family. I'm not sure why anybody feels they should have an issue with it.

Agree to disagree Pacific I think it should have been later with warnings especially when CR is so heavily aimed at children pre watershed. My ds is also 7 I'm glad he had gone upstairs and didn't see it. Why the the fuck are we still wittering about bedtimes trying to chip away at the OP s parenting for a cheap sanctimonious boost for a late bedtime on a Friday night? ..my children both 7 and 4 went to bed late last night due to watching a film ..the film finished 8.37.....ive left back light on , so the social services helicopter can land safely

Shock horror a 6 year old up at 8 on a Friday night. Because that's the real tragedy here, obviously.

I didn't watch, I can't, I can't flit between laughing and crying all the time. I do donate though.

I also never thought about a point a PP made about consent being sought from those poor parents and at what point was it sought.

It's dreadful that this is still happening in this day and age.

I think that is a vile comment to make
Why? Why is the truth vile to you? Have you ever seen a white English baby's actual death being televised? Of course you haven't.

Children in the UK are not dying because they dont have a £5 misquito net but I am sure if they were it would be shown

You need to see a baby die before you will donate towards a net? Are you fucking kidding me? CR telling you how many children die every year isn't enough to prompt you?

Don't compare it with an advert for childhood cancer. Those adverts show NOTHING of the reality of childhood cancer. If they did there would be uproar. And I have never seen a child with cancer die on camera.

What a stupid comparison.

@notso that was a different child.
They showed a sick baby and later revealed that she had died.

The earlier clip was of a child dying. A real human being.

No personal attacks of that nature could ever be justified. Reported.

Eh what personal attack???

It was very nasty to say i need a dying child to donate dont you think? When I said nothing of the sort.
Or is this poster one of those who is allowed to attack others and fets away with it?

In fact dont bother answering I suppose i will be deleted despite her nasty post towards me.
You are one poster I will be avoiding from now on. Its very clear you do and say as you please and get away with it.
Its this kind of stuff that spoils mn.
I have no idea why as I do not recall having spoken with you on any thread before.

Your posts are utterly bizarre.

You told me I posted a 'vile' thing and now you are having a tantrum because I responded to that nonsense.

Telling me not to reply to you? This isn't your facebook page.

Both CR and the cancer advert used children to promote their charity
Can you link to the cancer organisation that has an advert featuring a child that dies on screen?
I haven't seen that one.

I don't think its about it being acceptable to show the death of a black child but not a white one. We've just discussed this thread at dinner (mixed race family) and our feelings were different.

For me, it's precisely the fact that it's black children who are disproportionally dying in this way that should be highlighted. Why aren't white children dying in this way? People need to understand that black lives matter is more than a hashtag, its the response to the reality that all across the world black lives suffer disproportionately to white lives.

Its already been said but if this was a white western problem it wouldn't be happening.

Yeah maybe there would be more of an outcry if it was a white blonde girl but they aren't typically experiencing that for it to even be shown!

I nerver said they used a dying child. I said they both used children. What is your problem?

Yes it was a vile comment to state the death of a child was only shown because they are black.
Given the fact that they were asking for dontations for malaria nets and as far as I recall very very few children in the uk die from malaria of course the child would be black.....because its that childs country that needs the help.

Telling me not to reply to you? This isn't your facebook page.

I said I would be avoiding you. Cant you read? Or do you just like twisting posts to fit your take on them.

Jesus, I've cross posted with all the above which is not what inspired my comment. We just finished talking about it and I wrote my post then went to make a tea.

sasha the point is that we do not NEED to show the actual death of a child on tv to highlight that children are dying.
People do not need to see a child dying to know that they die.
White children die from cancer in the UK. We don't see them dying. We are told that they do.

sookies
Why do you have to SEE it to believe it?
Is it not enough to know that thousands of children die?

See my above post.
There are diseases that kill white children in the UK. We are told they do, we believe, we donate.
We don't film them in their last moments and say 'SEE' in order to elicit donations.

You sound hysterical

The father of the little girl who died requested that the footage be shown.