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?

If those pontipine kids go wild I expect someone will call in the hahoos to sort it out. Those are some terrifying fuckers.

I blame the parents.

Only because of the obesity. It's a tragedy really, I bet with some proper exercise they would be small enough to play with everyone else.

I bet Mummy Hahoo went out to work...

Yes, they are quite sinister with their crocodile smiles.

x post re obesity.
Pmsl!

You're all calling the Pontipines, but don't forget the Wattingers. They're just as bad!

Good point, missy.
The blue clothed bastards.

The wattingers are beneath contempt.

No attempt whatsoever to engage with the local community, you can knock and knock and no-one answers even when they are all in. Higly anti-social, they obviously have something to hide.

I view them with deep suspicion.

Well, they have to find something to write to justify the salary, even if it's complete drivel (speaking as a SAHM).

'It felt entirely natural to combine what I was teaching my son with the educational programmes on CBeebies. And as we watched them together, I saw an improvement in his vocabulary and grasp of colours and numbers.'

Yeah, right. Like she doesn't plonkthemdown let them have unsupervised Balamory in order to phone her editor or the bank without screams of 'I want to talk to Grandmaaaaaaaaaaaaa' constantly in her ear like the rest of us .

Am I wrong in thinking that when the BBC mentions 'preschoolers' they are referring to 3 and 4 year olds who attend nursery (ermm also called preschool)?

Apart from Teletubbies and ITNG and maybe a few others I would have thought that a lot of Cbeebies is targetted at this age, not 21 month olds.

It is complete over analysis just to stick something in the paper I think.

I dare someone to ring the daily mail and tell them about the people who live next door, funny national costume all the time, parents are unreliable and won't answer the door, neither parent seems to work. Loads of children and none seem to be at school or socialise with any other children.

And see if they are interested in the story

Go on double dare it would be brilliant!

There's not much point phoning the DM about the Pontipines, they'll know all about it anyway as their legionsof drivel writers read us all the time.

I love the ending, 'I'm invisible'...if only these fucking female quislings were.

And what about the Tombliboos? Poor little bastards, not even potty-trained yet and abandoned with no parent in sight...

Aren't the tombliboos potty trained?

Is that why their trousers are always on the washing line?

But who washes them? Eh? Eh?

In fact the government line is that under two's shouldn't watch tv at all. So her 21 month old is probably doing something illegal

also, its not just cbeebies. most childrens fiction works better someone when there are no parents around - it gives the characters independence and the story line has a real frisson as mummy isn't waiting in the wings to make everything better. everything,, from alice in wonderland to the famous five have absent parents somehow.

V true, oranges. THere have been essays and articles about the importance (in children's fiction) of absent parents and displaced children, the kids are always being sent away to stay with an auntie and have adventures, or the parents are dead/vanished/uninterested. This is partly because that way it's the child characters who are the important ones: most children are aware that in real life they are very much dependent on the whims and needs of adults, and the adults are centre stage...

I wish there was a childminder locally who worked the hours Granny Murray does - she seems to work 24 hours a day!

DD occasionally says "I will be thinking of you today mummy" which is nice, but then she wants me to wear multi-coloured clothes and mad bunches. I think she wishes I was a science teacher so I could be more like Nina (of the neurons)

Yes, but Granny Murray is actually a Slitheen. We just haven't seen her unzip her head yet.

Does that nina and the neurons thing work then, to get them all sciency like?

Or does it all go wrong when they get to later stages of school and get told its "sad" or whatever they say these days?

UQD that's a wicked fib. The entire cast of Mee Too are polymorphously perverse androids designed to educate kids about stuff like lavender marriages (the train trolly dolly and the butch pink cabby) and those strange rural types with unnatural interest in farm animals (the teacher).

Laura Kemp is so going to eat her words when her DS hits 4, has a massive burst of testosterone, and his daily mantra becomes "mummy is a poo poo head, mummy is a poo poo
head".

Then she will suddenly LOVE CBeebies.

Fuck me dollius I have "discovered" cbeebies in the last month. And it is going to be a true and enduring love.

DD is not yet 2 and is very easy going...

In my defence I am heavily pg...

Two thing you gotta get for the kids:

Summer a trampoline (with a bloody net)

Winter - Cbeebies (but turn off Blamory- itsshite) Bob the Builder rules!

SolidGoldBrass on Thu 25-Jun-09 21:46:23
"This is partly because that way it's the child characters who are the important ones: most children are aware that in real life they are very much dependent on the whims and needs of adults, and the adults are centre stage... "

And there, I suspect, lies Kemp's problem. She can't cope with a scenario where she is not centre-stage. Occupational hazard of being a columnist, I'd have thought.

Well yes, Spam, that's when I discovered it too.

But clearly as Laura is so saintly, it will take her longer.