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Dr Who - suitable?

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nannyme · 20/05/2006 19:09

My OH has switched on Dr Who for kids to watch.

We are having a nostalgia afternoon complete with baked bananas on the barbecue, home made ginger beer (not be design, it just happened) so discovery that Dr Who was on seemed fitting.

Anyway, kids (6,4 and 2) are watching and I am having doubts about suitability.

What do you think?

STOP PRESS!!!

Ahaaaa! Felix just said "I think we shouldn't watch this - we'll have nightmares"

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gigglinggoblin · 20/05/2006 19:12

mine are not watching this one, i thought it was too scary last week. i did start letting them watch the series, then realised the dvds were 12 cert and started to wonder if it was suitable but by that time it was too late. they are 7 and 5 and dont usually mind scary stuff, but the cyber men scared me so kids are watching rugrats instead

FrannySmith · 20/05/2006 19:13

No way. Big mistake.

cece · 20/05/2006 19:13

DH is watching with my 5 year old. He has just said it is fine!

madmarchhare · 20/05/2006 19:14

Na a

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nannyme · 20/05/2006 19:19

Well, I have just watched 5 mins with them now and TOTLLY don't think it is suitable.

OH is saying 'borderline'. Children are asking lots of questions which is a sign that they are concerned by it.

Have switched off now and sent the lot of them out to the garden for their bananas!

Do men have a different sense of what is okay, or is it not a gender thing? I think he thinks it's okay because he watched it when small, as did I. I'm sure it wasn't this violent though. Scary but not as violent.

Oh these rose tinted specs are hurting my eyes!!

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nicnack2 · 20/05/2006 19:23

now am am going to be slated. My 3yo knows the theme tune and anyone in a long black leather coat ask me if thats the doctor.(ecclestone) Blush. he didnt watch tonight episode and he didnit see the werewolf one. I do think that this seris is more frightning then last

TambaTheDragonSlayer · 20/05/2006 19:31

DS1 is just 4 and loves Dr Who (didnt let him see the wolf one though as it scared me!)

stitch · 20/05/2006 19:33

fgs, kids know the difference between telly monsters and rl ones. adults dont, but gkids do.
my three year old watches with us. in fact it is about the only thing that we do as a family.

cod · 20/05/2006 19:33

im, stunned so many kids are encouraged to wtahc it

roisin · 20/05/2006 19:35

DS2 is just 7, and has only seen a few Dr Whos. But he said he wanted to see this one, even though it had a Fear Factor of 5 on the BBC site. He did sit frozen with fear through most of it, and his little heart was pumping fast ... But he said he enjoyed it! We'll have to see what happens next - whether he goes to sleep nicely, and whether he has nightmares!

Personally I thought it was really boring - didn't move me at all.

tamum · 20/05/2006 19:35

What little I've seen had been completely unsuitable IMO, and there's no way I'd let under 6s watch.

cod · 20/05/2006 19:36

my kids are nto interested
VEry good arbiters fo taste
perfer spongey

GreenySmith · 20/05/2006 19:36

NO. Am rather shocked at what some parents let their small children watch Shock

tamum · 20/05/2006 19:37

Nor mine, so my judgements are all a bit empty :o

poppiesinaline · 20/05/2006 19:38

Some episodes I think are ok and others not (didnt let DD 6 yrs watch the werewolf one) but generally mine seem ok with it. DS1 9 and DD 6. As it was on earlier tonight DS2 'watched' it too and seemed fine.... but he is only 13 months Wink

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nannyme · 20/05/2006 19:39

Would love to know what a RL monster looks like!

Moving on...

It is less the potenetial for confused distinction between RL and fiction that concerns me and more the gratuitous depiction of violent behaviour.

I say gratuitous because it is a kids programme and so completely unnecessary. I like the suspense of daleks, don't remember them actually doing much (like I said, I have my fabby pink specs on).

Ugly looking robots, etc. are fine but it's the extent of maiming and killing that worries me...

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batters · 20/05/2006 19:57

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tamum · 20/05/2006 19:59

True, batters. I was actually thinking about it more, and it is quite child-dependent really. Ds is a complete wuss :)

LIZS · 20/05/2006 20:02

ds is 8 and hides behind a cushion sometimes ! He can take it or leave it and has only started to watch a few whole episodes recently while some of the boys in his class watch it keenly but was at a dinner the other day with other class mums and got the impression it was a real no-no for the girls. dd is 4 and watches by default but much seems to go over her head and she seems more in tune with the humour than the scary bits.

tenalady · 20/05/2006 20:03

I am glad of this thread, my ds 4 keeps asking me to let him watch it. Kids at nursery talk about the aliens and he somehow knows all about the tardis and the daliks. I dont think it is suitable really, so will wait a couple more years.

hulababy · 20/05/2006 20:03

4yo DD doesn't like it. DH watched it this evening as it was on early. DD sat at the table doing "her work" with me chatting to her instead and told DH to turn it down please!

mousiemousie · 20/05/2006 20:11

DD age 6 adore this programme. She watches it tucked up on the sofa between mummy & daddy and asks for a hand over her eyes when its a bit scary.

No nightmares

What she can't watch is any thing even remotely sad (Free Willy etc)!

fattiemumma · 20/05/2006 20:19

No i dont think its the greatest programme in the world for my DS 5 to be watching but i thini i would face full scale rioting if i dared switch it over.

he absolutly loves it and asks me a fair few times through the week "when is DR who on?"

as long s he isnt too scared by it then i dont see it will damage them forever.

fattiemumma · 20/05/2006 20:22

Ds also has no confusion over what is real and what isnt.

one of his favourite places in the world is the natural histpry museum where they have teh giant motorised T rex.....he goes down the ramp and when he see's young children that are frightened he waltzes straight over, slings an arm over the shoulder and says..."aww dont worry, it wont eat you its only a big toy"

very cute and quite funny as i have never had to explain this to him!

QE · 20/05/2006 20:26

I am really strict when it comes to letting kids watching unsuitable programmes BUT BUT BUT Blush Shock I let my 3 year old watch it. He asks all week "doc who on tonight?" and jumps up and down with excitement when the theme tune starts.

A lot goes over his head. The Madme de Pompadour was the one he found most scary with the masks but when we showed him a mask in his toybox he was fine about it. He calls the cybermen "robots" and isn't scared by them either.

Huge fans here anyway so no chance of them NOT watching it tbh!!! Grin