Is my SD too young to be watching Eastenders?

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as she is 6.

as i dont really know much of what she can allow to watch.. as when i was her age, i wasnt allow to watch tv after 6pm

no way. I don't even let my 6 year old watch some stuff on cbbc.

Oh dear, I'm going to come out of the closet here and confess that my 9yo watches soaps. It's not that I allow her to, as such, but when you've three much older children around it's pretty hard to keep tabs on what the youngest sees. But she takes what she sees with a large pinch of salt and when I've talked about soaps she looks at me scathingly and says "It's not true, mummy, it's only a story."

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my 6 year old sd watches little britain as well as eastenders, she comes over at the weekend sating that her brother is the only gay in the village!

Wouldn't let mine watch it till they were at least 18!!!!!

if its on after 7 she should be in bed!!

I think Eastenders and similar are grim and depressing. For that reason alone I would not want a young child to be watching it. What on earth could they gain from it? I agree that children can be sheltered too much, but cannot see why any parent would want their child to watch rape, murder, illness, drug abuse, suicide, prostitution, crime and death on a regular basis (all storylines that have featured on EE). They are little sponges at this age and children of age 6 do not fully understand the difference between fact and fiction, especially when presented in a gritty realistic way as in Eastenders.

you could say arent we lucky our life isnt that bad!!