AIBU not to let my dd watch Glee?

[Mowgli1970]

My dd is nearly 10. Dh and I watch Glee and love it, but would you let your 10 year old watch it?

no, it's way too camp

I can see why you'd be worried about the Quinn storyline. I think it's otherwise pretty mild, positive stuff. If her friends are watching and she isn't allowed, could you let her watch the songs by videoing it or finding them on youtube? They're the bits her friends will be talking about, I'm sure.

Yes.

dd (4.8) loves it. She loves the songs, dance routines and the outfits

yabu

Yes and especially the Quinn storyline, really well handled.

This is the most positive programme I've seen about growing up - it gives such a good image of 'geeks', 'freaks' and 'jocks'. I think its seriously good.

I love Glee. It's positive and entertaining, the songs and routines are fab, and it's a great bit of innocent camp escapism. Much prefer it to the uber uptight and melodramatic 90210.

Because it was on after 9 (to start with) I decided not to let my DS (10) watch but having seen as far as E4 have shown I don't think there is anything I'd object to him seeing although I would use it as a discussion point.

I'm not too fussed about the pregnancy stuff as we're quite chatty about that kind of stuff anyway but I wouldn't want him to think the endemic and institutionalised bully are acceptable behaviour.

Probably yes My DD is a little older and is 12 and is obsessed at the moment. Is the sunday afternoon showing edited at all? We record monday nights and watch it later in the week.

No she's too young

my dd (10 in October) watches it - I haven't seen anything I have objected to yet. She already knows about sex, homosexuality, teen pregnancy etc. Some of the stuff has gone over her head which is fine by me - she just likes the singing and dancing really!

I wouldn't let her watch stuff like 90210 either.

I would let them. It is really innocent (apart from the quinn/finn) and sends out a positive message.

Why wont you let her watch it ?? I've watched it and haven't seen any violence or pornography in it so far !!

YABU. DDs are 7 and 11. It's all sensitively handled. We watch it together and explain if they ask.

What don't you like about it?

You are joking southeastastra?

YABU to watch it at all, it's crap.

My 12 yo DD and 9 yo DS watch it - but I make sure theiir tongues are firmly in cheek.
I find the storylines bizarre and the characters mostly unpleasant.
What's positive about a woman pretending to her husband that she's pregnant and plotting to buy a teenage girl's baby?
Or said teenage girl conning her bf into thinking the baby is his when they didn't even have sex?
And telling the real father she wants nothing to do with him because he's a 'loser' who'll never amount to anything?
Maybe this series has just been setting the scene and it'll all turn out fine, but ATM so many characters are devious and manipulative it takes my breath away, and I make sure to point out that most of the behaviour is not normal or acceptable.

My 10 year old loves it.

She watches the re-run though (think it's Wednesdays 4-5?) as 9-10 is a little late for her

We'd all seen Grease by that age I'd imagine, which is much worse.

Well yes, there must be some point to all this hideousness - but some people seem to be reading it as innocent entertainment, which it's clearly not.

The best bit for me, though, was the gay kid getting the football team to dance to 'all the single ladies.'

I've missed a few episodes, so I probably haven't quite got a handle on it, but I do think younger children need an adult with them to give perspective.

Glee - it's kitsch and it knows it.

As the others have pointed out Grease is far more gritty. My Dad took me to see it when I was 6. The pregnancy story went right over my head - I didn't know what 'knocked up' meant anyway - and all I cared about was OLJ singing 'Hopelessly devoted to you'.

Let her watch it, and if it raises questions then that's great. Answer them. But I suspect that for a ten year old it's more about Rachel and the singing anyway.

YABU

Much less traumatic than Grange Hill/Eastenders when I was 10 IMO.

Yup. 'Zammo chased the dragon and got a smack on the nose' anyone?

And of course we didn't all grow up to be heroin addicts did we?

of course, I wasn't allowed to watch GH or EE as a pre-secondary school kid though

Biker Grove was Ok though...