CBeebies hates stay at home mums?

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Ok, it's the Daily Fail but still. I think maybe she ought to turn the TV off...or switch over to Milkshake - both Peppa and The Little Princess are cared for by their parents! Are SAHMs undermined by fictional children being looked after at nursery?

And I don't even know where to start with this quote: "Is it any wonder the escalation in anti-social behaviour over the past 30 years has coincided with the rise in children being nurtured - or not - by strangers?" She's feeling undermined by not being represented on childrens' tv, and then she throws this staggeringly provocative statement in, telling us that working mums and nursery care are responsible for the increase in anti-social behaviour.

It's not really worth reading. Why are people paid to write these things? And why do I read them?

Farking hell!!! As a SAHM I PMSL at that article. Still, at least it made a change from my normal , , and more at reading the codswallop written in that 'paper'.

It's also a bit bloody low to suggest that nurseries are not safe because one nursery worker has been charged with offences against children.

I really, really must not click on DM links. And if I cannot resist, I really, really must absolutely not read the comments.

"I stopped my son from viewing the channel when I realised that the normal person is no longer represented by this channel. I found books to be of a better source of entertainment. At least I got to choose what I wanted my son to know and learn."

• eric victor, uk, 25/6/2009 1:32

That reminds me rinder, maybe the journalists sprog would be better off at nusery if all she is doing is sitting watching telly with it all day

eric victor, for example, is a twat

Spam - you are spot on!

LL, I lurve you!

what a fule.

Programmes need good stories and good stories need good characters. You get a much wider choice of characters at a nursery or cm.

That's the only reason. There is no conspiracy.

I love all the conspiracy theories in the DM. This article is one of the best I have read for a long time. Surely this is not serious, but especially written for the DM audience by someone having a laugh?

I think what annoys me most about this "article" is the emotive phrase "handing your children over to strangers" and its willingness to ascribe all society's ills to, gasp, parents going out to work.

As is often the case with strident right-wing voices, it presents an idealistic scenario as the norm, one which requires a level of financial stability to achieve - thus equating relative wealth and security with the high ground, and automatically associating anyone outside that box with moral turpitude.

Yes, because in Daily Mail lala land, working mothers should be illegal as should be giving benefits to single mothers.

Perhaps they think that single mothers and their children can live on fresh air?

But Cory- I thought anti social behaviour was caused by immigrants, gypsies and people who make up diagnoses such as adhd just to excuse bad aprenting!

Can I handle this new info???

Seriously people who can't understand we are all different and have different lives and trationales are not worth fretting over

I have done the nursery thing, the CM thing, grandparent care and now am a SAHM

Life is rich and it changes

Doesn't that naughty Norman in Fireman Sam's mum work in a shop? She definatly should give up work and look after Norman!

I wonder where the Daily Hate stands on the Pontipines?

I mean, Mrs Pontipine is clearly a SAHM, but not a very good one. They are clearly both on some sort of electronic tag, as they have to run home as soon as the Home Time bell goes, regardless of whether they have managed to round up all of the children or not.

Is Pontipine even a British name? I suspect they are immigrants, sponging on Night Garden benefits to look after their ten delinquent children.

Am intrigued as to what sort of scandal TitsalinaBunsquash thought Granny Murray and Miss Hooley could be embroiled in. The mind boggles!

Snort! We watch too much a fair bit of CBeebies and it has never occurred to me that SAHM are under-represented.

I shall write a letter to my MP immediately!

I thought Timmy Time was about going to school! ONe of the reasons I like it is cos I talk to DS about 'when you go to big school like Timmy' - because it looks far more like a reception class than a nursery to me (OK, I know real reception classes are not full of farm animals...)

Bah. I am sooooo going to write my book about modern families and really fuck off the daily mail.

Yet another article full of shit from the dm.

I am with Ffreckle on this. The Pontipines would clearly be sneered at by the DM. They are not only immigrants (hasidic jews for my money, so no doubt that would be 'wrong' becasue they wouldn't be integrated enough or something) but they are also wreckless in their child bearing and childcare.

SGB - you mean reception classes aren't full of farm animals?

Little Ff is going to be gutted.

It really isn't good journalism is it? Moaning that there aren't enough SAHMs on CBeebies, and making out that children who attend nursery will be damaged and possibly abused.

Lol at littlelamb. I do hope Eric Victor googles himself!

Oh my goodness, the Pontipines. I bet they don't own that house either.

I'm sure journalists didn't write articles about the lack of representation in Button Moon, The Flumps or Bagpuss. Or maybe they did in the DM.

ROFL @ pontipines comments.

Spot on they are exactly the sort of people bringing this country to its knees.

Yes, but Nickytwotimes, you could argue that they are taking steps to prevent having more children, by sleeping head to head in separate beds, in the same room as their numerous children.

true, Ff, but that does raise the rather distasteful question of how they managed to concieve the previous kids.

Yeah ffreckle but I reckon they see quite a lot of outdoors action, which is why they are always "losing" the kids

It brings a whole new meaning to the Pontipines 'hiding in the teeny tiny hole'.

Typical of that sort of people. It's only a matter of time before those poor kids are getting smashed on Pinkyponk juice and stealing the Ninkynonk to go joyriding.