To think that if your 4yo is still up in the evening, you should not really be watching CSI?

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I think IA probably NBU wrt CSI, but what about Doctor Who?

DS1 has always seen dr who, csi, reality programmes, the news etc he is not harmed by it. I have the news on pretty much all day therefore he was watching it with me, I am the same with ds2 as well.

Ok so it opens a whole new world for children where reality is part of life, and they question it but i would rather this than they learn things in school yards.

I think it is down to individual parenting tbh we are all different and what suits one child doesn't suit another

i don't think csi i appropriate for any age. why is mutilation and death entertainment? and isn't it just the same every week? turn over to bbc 4 [pompous emoticon]

I think csi is educational actually lol but thats just my opinion...rather that than horrid henry or power rangers

CSI DVDs have a BBFC rating of 15 and 18 iirc (obviously different episodes will vary) None of my DCs would be allowed to watch them (I love it, but it's far too gory and inappropriate for kids, sorry)

DW is 'family entertainment' and is on early evening when DCs are up, so they can watch. Given that she has elder brothers who like it, and parents who like it, DD's been watching since it started up again, so 1? 2? Can't remember the year.

Similarly with Buffy. DCs watched the (cut) 6pm showings when they were on.

My DCs are never really up when 'adult' programming is on because I value my child free time. The odd times they are around, I'd rather record stuff and watch it uninterrupted.

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Nybom, I am shocked. Do you really think it is accaptable to expose a child to the swearing in programmes like Big Brother?

DS is almost 8 (in 22 days as he informed me this morning!) and goes to be much later than lots of his friends. Usually 9 on a school night and 9.30 or so weekends and holidays. It does impact our TV watching. I won't watch anything that is not aimed at children/families when he is around. So we record lots of Are You Smarter/Gladiators/Oops TV/dog Whisperer etc etc. and watch those.

He was watching Brainiac the other day and I had to switch it off as they were measuring which would work your heart more - 20 mins on a treadmill or 20 mins staring at women's breasts!

I have watched Casualty at my parents when DS was around and he was quick to point out that it was not suitable for him!

But I suppose it is different strokes for different folks. I know lots of people who are more lax and let their DCs watch all sorts and lots who hardly let their DCs watch TV at all. I am relaxed about how much he watches but not about the content.

It does make me uncomfortable to think of children watching crap like Big Brother. Mind you it makes me uncomfortable to think that I share a world with adults who like it!

Could you would you - 3year old ds really enjoyed Crocodile Autopsy programme last night - que conversations about death and biology I suppose lots of "death and mutilation" also took him to see bodyworlds - is stimulating

Not quite the same thing, is it?

South Park for a 4yo?!

But the crocodile autopsy is biology, CSI is rape, murder... totally different.
I'd record the animal autopsy programs and we'd watch them together one afternoon. Rather than sending him to bed after just watching it, when his mind would be whirring with blood and guts and questions!
Probably just comes down to the fact that I'm selfish and MY evening starts at 7pm so he'll be in bed no questions asked!

I would think that 9pm is a bit late for a three year old to be up anyway.

And there I was thinking that Futurama was a bit much for a 4 year old

I would never personally let my eldest (almost 5) watch CSI, BB, Buffy etc. I don't even let the child watch Power Rangers or Pokemon! I just think that there are so many years he can be exposed to such thins, why not let him have his innocence while he can? JMPO though.

I do let him watch nature programmes, and possibly would show him the autopsy thing, as he has a rabid interest in such things and they are very educational.

You are kidding, aren't you, nybom?. Tell me you're kidding!

9pm is late (finished at 10) from our perspective, but sometimes he isn't tired and will not lay in bed in compliantly

Not sure about CSI - I hate it when DS and DD see Eastenders when it is on (occasionally) everyone always shouting

I wasn't allowed to watch EastEnders until I was 14 because of the shouting. (not that it had an effect as I do shout a lot anyway )

get aaat o my pub!!!!

Exactly!

no, i'm not kidding.

if you look at children's fairytales and cartoons, there are just as gory...

re swearing - there is no swearing in our house (we don't even say "shit"), i use the f word maybe once a year, i am SHOCKED how easily it is used nowerdays, i can't go into town with DSs wihtout hearing someone shout it... that has nothing to do wether you watch programmes such as big brother or not, so i don't see any harm. he will be confronted with it in the real world, so i might as well prepare him.

swearing is also in pop songs, and in the country where i come from there is no bleeping on the radio, there is swearing and calling women bitches all day long.

also, programmes such as the news, big brother, documentaries etc. are closer to real life than sterotyping fecking power rangers and the like, to which DS is immensly drawn to because his friends watch it. DS is constantly repeated some bloody phrase from kids programmes (usually baout killoing and guns) but NEVER ever have i heard him copy anything he watched on an adult programme!

if i put DS to bed at 7 he would be awake at 5...

oh, do you know what DS is scared of? Harry Potter and a variety of Disney Films!!!

But with programmes like South Park, swearing is the least of it's problems, it's hideous!

not much different to disney films...

i recall another incident:

i recently went to a primary school with DSs as there was a (digital) snail race for charity. some snails were killed in the race - eaten up, flattened by stones, they also ran into each other (the snail behind got his head stuck up the others arse!!!). when DSs snail got killed he cried hysterically for half an hour. he was upset the rest of the evening.

THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE FOR KIDS FGS!

MY DS1 watches DW from bout 4yrs at 1st we started watching them 1st then if we thought it was ok for him we'd let him watch the repeat. we also let him watch primeval as hes mad on dinosaurs DS1 goes to bed at 7.30 although DS2 goes at 8 (due to stupidly early morning waking!). we let him stay up a bit later if a programme finishes a bit after bed time but generally he doesnt watch anything on tv after bed time unless its a day re-run. IMO its on that late for a reason.
We watch a lot of films but DS isnt allowed to watch certain ones- im a big horror film fan but would NEVER let him watch these. But he watches a lot of superhero films- spiderman, hulk etc some might be a 12 rating but would never let him watch anything over that.
At theend of the day every kids different and as a parent you know whats suitable for your kid. some might be easily scared where as other are sensitive, etc.
BUT saying that when i was little and my mum let me watch something scary i'd insist I wasnt scared but would go to bed and hide under the covers LOL. Kids want to be grown up sometimes even if they arent ready.

I don't get how it is ok for dc to watch Power rangers where there is violence but the same dc would not be allowed to watch the news....one is factual and the other is a pile of crap which encourages violence...hence reason i have never allowed that or various other "childrens" tv

I think that things like CSI (and Jeremy crap Kyle) are worse than the news. I haven't ever watched Power Rangers so I can't comment on that.