British children live, eat and breathe TV: should we be bovvered?

[TheDullWitch]

I remember watching 2 hours of telly after school, didn t do me any harm etc.

www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jan/16/television.socialnetworking

But tellies in kids' bedrooms. Tsk. [how common, emoticon]

well i shall feel very smug in teh knowledge that neither of my two know most of teh shows yoru all going on about.

i have no idea what this night garden thing is, never seen a lazy town and no idea what most of the others are.

we do however have a boogy beebies dvd which Dd loves.

if you look at what educationalists are saying the shift in screens (i lump them all together) has been last 10 years
the difference between what a now yr 6 child did at age four and todays 4 year olds is screens

tv is now as well as pc and yes it is too much

people bleat - they read/go swimming/do 10,000 extra curricular stuff arranged for them..

the thing kids dont do is lie about on the floor with nothing to do which then slowly develops into a great game which stimulates imagination.

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lol. I knew you would, you are svengali to unsuspecting violin playing children.

Oh yes. Now Ellen is a seriously bad lawyer isn't she? She's pretty mind, but honestly, I'm not confident about her. I liked it last week when her colleague told her off for showing-off when all she'd done was drip about the meeting-room and state the bloody obvious.

Also top of the list are The Simpsons and some weird sit-com called Genie in the House. They all like that.

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Olive, WTF is that?

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Oh they do Paula, they do. But only when I do the screeching 'no screens' thing - which I do quite regularly. We have no screens until 5.00 in the holidays.

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I am shocked at that, cod - I suspect that chicken drumstick with a smiley face on it is not free range or organic.

I saw the trailer the other day and had that twat singing in my head the whole day

I'm the Puppet Masterrrrrrrrrrrr

arrrghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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i think it does degenerate into kids moaning cod yes - but that's because levels of 'stimulation' are higher

i do not believe 80% of kids age 3 have a tv in room- bolleux

MInd you ellen's sil saw off that trained assassin pretty well, with her flappy arms and screaming. lol. He ran down the street, his highly-trained assassins instinct left him, he panicked. Ha ha.

my kids dont know those programs they do watch dvds

I love In the Night Garden, makes me chortle and weep in equal measures. My kids don't even watch it any more

cod and elphaba, have your ds3's started school yet?

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Yes really, but sometimes it slips to 4.00 if it's raining. Also ds1 gets up early and watches, and then it goes off after lunch. TBH if I let them have an hour after lunch then it'd be hours of negotiation and crap when the hour was up. Can't be bothered.

Ahem. I mean it goes off after breakfast, of course I do, of course.

Ha ha - it's the devil's work TV dontcha know?

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me too.

I got bored I think, and also realised it didn't matter as much as I thought it all did. I often think I should apologise to ds1.

Right am off out now. How's the application form?

These third kids get away with murder . There is no way ds (oldest) would have been allowed to watch Cory etc aged 4 but dd2 doesn't get a lot of choice.

So ds3 is at school? Where have the last 5 years gone?

this is the worry i have, actually. as one of four who practically brought up the youngest, i have tended to neglect parent dd as if she were a fourth child... what will happen if i have another? will social services be involved?

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