Teenagers and Love Island

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Is anyone else watching Love Island with their teenagers? TBH I find it quite excruciating but watched the last series with my teenage daughter and found it helped us really talk about relationships, attitudes to their girls and all sorts of things. Just wondering if anyone else has had similar experiences

I watched it last year with my teen and now watching some of it (it’s been recorded, not live) with my nearly ten year old. It’s definitely a good talking tool

I’d like to hear how it can be used in a positive way? I’ve told my 13yo I don’t want her to watch it because it’s shite - she thinks I’m mad. Twas ever thus...

Yes I watch with 13 yo DD. The show really epitomises the Instagram generation and unfortunately this is the world our children are growing up in. I would rather DD watch with me where we can discuss and I can give her a more balanced viewpoint on what she is seeing in terms of body image, navigating relationships and how social media is skewing everything these days.
DD and I talk about this stuff on a regular basis anyway but I find that watching LI with her gives me the opportunity to reinforce for her how shallow and damaging social media can be and how it is important to stay true to yourself and not get too caught up in appearances.

Lucky: she probably wants to watch it because all her friends are and it will be all that everybody is talking about at the moment. DD watched for the first time last year. She was desperate to because it’s all her friends were taking about. I was reluctant but eventually relented as long as she watched with me. She actually found it utterly boring and vacuous after a few weeks once the novelty had worn off and gave up watching of her own accord. I on the other hand watched it religiously and never missed a night! 😳😬

@luckything50 for the reasons above about helping teens or even preteens see the instagram versions of life and of people are NOT accurate. To help them see that some people can portray themselves as one type of person but then act in a very different way. To help them see friendships as some real friendships do grow in these shows- often between the boys or the girls themselves and not between the boy/girl couples. To discuss choices that people make... and to just spend time together. I
Miss my older daughter now when I’m
Watching LI as it was something we did last year.