Which CBBC Programmes do you consider unsuitabale for an 8 yr old girl?

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My DD tries an every opportunity to watch CBBC. Obviously she does this after homework and dinner :)

Some of the programmes do seem a little bit old for her though.
I am very happy for her to watch things like:
Horrible Histories,
Arthur
Deadly 60
Blast Lab
Scooby Doo
(and we do this as a family as often as possible)

But other programmes just seem a bit too grown-up. For example:
Tracey Beaker
Merlin
Leonardo
Mi High
Raven
Sarah Jane Adventures
Young Dracula

Has anyone else thought this? I would be interested to see which ones you think are so it can help me to monitor her when she is left to watch on her own?

Many thanks

Ds is 7 and I don't have an issue with him watching anything on CBBC. I'd rather he didn't watch the Simpsons but his grandma lets him even though we've had words.

My dd watches Sarah Jane adventures and Roy, she loves them.

She is 4.5 .

Pathan ds grew out of Cbeebies by the time he was 4.5. I guess I've been a bit delinquent not limiting his CBBC viewing but he does know the difference between tv and RL.

When I was little I was utterly terrified of Scooby Doo

Hmm my dd is 6yo and I am finding that she is too old for in the night garden and the other rubbish one where noseless creatures float about talking rubbish!

But too young for the alternative on cbbc, she loves horrible histories (is going through a gross phase!) and tonight watched hole in the wall and then moaned about lack of anything to watch until shaun the sheep came on!

She is allowed to watch about 45mins of telly in the evening after she has done her reading etc (before you judge me!)

Dd is 9 and watches everything that your dd watches apart from deadly 60 because that frightens her to death.
I wouldn't allow her to watch anything on your second list though.
I am though maybe over protective and over sensitive as I took her to see Mirror Mirror yesterday and she loved it. Had I watched it on dvd first I probably wouldn't have taken her as I thought it was frightening in places and I didn't like the fighting either tbh.

Oh dear, my dd is 5 and refuses to watch 'babyish' cbeebies, loves most of the programmes on CBBC with the exception of Merlin which I think she finds too scary. Are they really unsuitable do you think? Some of her contemporaries are watching Star Wars and Indiana Jones films, which I would have thought a little too old, but I thought CBBC was vaguely aimed at 5-8 year olds. Her favourites are Sarah Jane, Scooby Doo, Horrible Histories and Sadie J..
I have just sort of filed this in the category of not sweating the small stuff.

Sarah Jane Adventures for all ours. Youngest was watching it from birth (4 years old now). It is Dr Who after all.

My DD is 7.5 and watches most of the things on your lists. She is a real Dr Who fan (as is her Dad) too

Ds is five and loves merlin and Sarah Jane.

my DS - 6.5 watchs everything on CBBC - I am not that keen on some of the programs as I find them a bit dull but never seen anything I think is unsuitable - he is a bit scared of sarah jane adventures through -

I don't think there's anything there that would do her any harm. I would just let her decide - she probably won't be interested in programmes that are too grown up, as she won't understand them and will be bored.

am probably going to get a good old flaming for this, but dd1 (5.1) watches several of things on your second list. she's always had a bit of a taste for "scary" stuff. we mostly watch things together though, so we talk together about what's going on eg in Tracy Beaker. she doesn't have nightmares.

My DD2 has been watching all off them since she was about 7 or 8. I haven't found any of them to be a problem. things like Merlin and Leonardo didn't interest her, I think it went over her head, but DD1 watched them

My dd watched a bit of Coraline ystd - now that is scary !!!

DD2 is eight and watches them all and loves them. Merlin and the SJA are terrific. I love them too.

I'm with you, OP. DD (7yo) watches the programmes on your first list, but I don't allow her to watch the ones on your second list.

She also likes Friday Download and Total Wipeout.

What channel is Prank Patrol on? Is that CBBC? That's just unjustifiably mean and I won't have it in the house!

My DD (8) likes TB and MI High and I like MI High too

She watches Raven if its on, but just doesn't like Merlin

It's the teethgrindigly awful continuity bits with that dog puppet that I really, really HATE!

Each to their own, but I personally don't have a problem with any on the lower part of your list especially when her classmates are watching Family Man and 12 movies on DVDs

I think my dd is just off the rails like me, I was a Magpie devotee and thought anyone who watched Blue Peter was terribly posh..

DD3 (nearly 10) has watched Sarah Jane and MI High off your second list for a couple of years. She did try for a while to watch Tracey Beaker, but I watched 10 minutes of one episode and Put My Foot Down. She watched a little bit of Young Dracula, but it didn't appeal to her.

She's now back to watching Horrible Histories on an almost endless loop which I'm much happier with (HH, not the endless loop ), but has also been watching a lot of Dr Who with DD2 (14) to hide behind - we felt she was too young when most of the DT Dr Whos were on, but she's been enjoying them now.

It's a difficult age, as there's not a lot that is properly suitable. Around 7-8 we switched to Disney Playhouse with a Very Big Talk about adverts and how the toy companies were trying to trick you which helped a bit.

My 5 year old and eight year old watch Sarah Jane from behind the sofa

My dd(8) watches all of the programmes on your first list, none on the second. She does like School of Silence - is that CBBC? I don't let her watch Dr Who though - I know she would be terrified... She loves Total Wipeout too!

My dd has never expressed worry at some of the scarier stuff, but I'd put my foot down if she did. She does get very upset at anything that shows an animal in distress. We watched Lassie a few weeks ago and she was in floods of tears.

She's obviously destined to an animal rights activist.

Ds is 4.5. We only allow cbeebies here. Esp after an incident with citv and hero108! Ds went round going on about bashing heads in - feel this is completely inappropriate. Took me a while to discover where it came from!

Isn't CBBC for children 5-8 in age. I don't like some of the programs particularly Tracy Beaker (DS is prono to copy bad behaviour) and I have seen him crying at someone dying in Merlin. But....

Long time ago we had these horrible Grimm Brother's stories, which were passed from generation to generation not with the purpose to entertain children but to teach them about the negative side of life and to "thoughen" them a bit to help them cope with real life's draw backs.

If your child lives in a perfect world, she won't be able to learn how to cope with problems. Considering her age, I would let her watch the full list of programes if she is interested.

CITV is a different matter altogether - very very limited here
and I agree some children watch 12 DVDs which I don't let DS watch at all
we have a few interesting dicussions after Tracey Beaker - but in general that is all to the good