Kids TV slowly rips out your soul.

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My kids have developed an addition to the screen. Yes my fault yada yada yada. Sometimes you just have to let them got on with it. But my god, the screeching, the shrieking, the false constant peril. The American drawl (sorry). I can't take this anymore and may fake a power cut so we all sit with candles and interact.

*addiction even!

What are they watching lol

Larva at the moment

Ahhhhh im dreading this. At the mo DD is very happy to watch Strictly, BakeOff and Gardeners World, long may it last.

How old are they?

Cbbc is a brilliant channel for slightly older kids...I genuinely enjoy lots of the shows.

DS and I are watching Ninjago atm. It's his second time through, I'm watching it now cos the bits I saw in the background looked really good. he's not allowed to watch it without me and he's also not allowed to tell me what happens in later seasons!

Those awful American shows full of beautiful teenagers living in mansions are the worst.

I can happily sit through CBeebies - tiny pop makes me wanna gauge out my eyes with a rusty spoon!!!

Oh god yes, that, and their ability to NEVER get bored of a particular show. When DSS was younger he would quite happily have sat in front of the same show all day if he was allowed (which he clearly wasn't).

Too right! Fucking PJ masks with their fucking big band jazz tunes and tired old superhero-clichés about "saving the day" and obvious tokenism of one female character who is also "of colour". My God, I hate them with a passion!

But there's some pretty nice stuff too. Weirdly, I find baby Jake absolutely adorable and I don't mind Tom Hardy reading me a bedtime story... 😉

I’m a teacher and have a theory that the over saturation and constant availability of children’s TV has led to the appalling lack of vocabulary most children suffer from.
In the 90s I graduated onto mild ‘adult’ tv at about the age of 7/8 (Red Dwarf/Black Adder/Monty Python/mild stand up) as there was nothing else to watch. The adult bits went over my head but the language was a much higher quality. I moved onto adult books too as I could then understand the words.

One of my children in UKS2 this week defined a ‘dune’ as a month of the year.

My son watches these adultish programmes with me and also has a broad vocabulary. Much more fun for me to watch too!

I feel for you. Both my DC went through the Larva faze. I thought in the night garden was bad but thats something else entirely!

I actually don't mind Teen Titans, anyone else?

Two Words.
Bubble. Guppies.

@thegreenlight I suppose it depends. My DS has a really broad vocabulary, my grandad always comments on some of the words he uses as he finds them unusual for a child, and yet some of it must have come from cartoons!