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]

i suspect that this is the reason why i was so responsible for my young sister. my mother read a lot.

Ugh, we had a TV in DD's bedroom up until about a week ago, when she pissed me off with not tidying her room so we took it out. Now I have to put up with the crap they watch downstairs instead.

I don't see the problem with an hour or two of TV a day, I really don't, I watch more than that and my brain hasn't turned to mush.

The past-time my two use the most is reading, DD reads stories to DS (so much so that he expects all older children to read to him), when the TV is on DS normally gets fed up with sitting still and buggers off upstairs to play trains or lego or whatever he does in his room when he is alone, and DD turns cartoons over to 'are you smarter than a ten year old'.

Neither of them are lacking in imagination or losing out on being 'bored'.

Cutting all kids tv is just making a rod for your own back IMO.

carrot mush cod??
No wonder you felt bored, dontcha know the new spangled fangled BLW is just made for lazy parenting?

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