I have 15 minutes to persuade bolshy toddler to let me watch Eastenders

[Jane68]

She is currently watching a marathon Scooby Doo session, how do I do this without it kicking off royal?

Emkana my lovely friend, walk away.

We are talking into the wind.

Is S still spoken for ??

I could be the very older woman....

Jane, when your new baby arrives you might be grateful for the evenings without the toddler needing attention. Why not start thinking about snuggling in bed for stories for an hour in the evening and get her used to the idea of going to bed to sleep. I think you will be glad you did when No.2 comes along.

Bree, we'll have to set up a meeting one day.

Jane, if you're not really watching it anyway, then turn the damn thing off and WATCH IT LATER.

Will leave now. Goodbye

Thank God for that!

Emkana

It is a date.

One presumes that due to his experiences your cravings pre-birth that he loves good ice-cream. See I love him already.

Was that aimed at emkana, Jane? Am not impressed at all.

Anyway, as I was saying "Jane, when your new baby arrives you might be grateful for the evenings without the toddler needing attention. Why not start thinking about snuggling in bed for stories for an hour in the evening and get her used to the idea of going to bed to sleep. I think you will be glad you did when No.2 comes along. "

Berolina, I thought I'd made my self very clear, I don't care what you think.

Eastenders might be a pre-watershed programme but at the moment it shouldn't be. Its total crap and the freaks at the bbc responsible for it need their heads examined. I wouldn't want a child of mine to watch it.

Agree with Kbear. Still spend time in the evenings with her, but snuggle under the duvet, chat, read books or something.
Anything but watching inappropriate tv programmes with her.

Jane

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If you really have to, keep them up late, but make it so dull they then want to go to bed.

It 'aint rocket science.

I don't have any trouble with mine. A little drop of gin in their milk and they're out like a light.

I am neither unchilled or ridiculous actually but I do think that any mother who lets their toddler watch Eastenders is a bad parent.. fact.. (in my opinion)

You say that

its called life and to create a well rounded socially responsible person you need to expose them to it...

Not when they are toddlers you don't..

How do you know if goes over their head? Just because she doesn't seem to be watching it doesn't mean the information isn't going into her head, it doesn't mean that she won't dream about it later on etc.

I don't want my 4 yr old to know that some people scream and shout at each other, and hit each other and god knows what else that goes on in Eastenders, so I sky+ it and watch it when she goes to bed..

Tis called being a responsible parent.

Re the bedtime issue, I can't see any long term damage being done to your toddler with not having a routine, I can see problems for you later on though - but that is your parental choice, think you are mad but I am not judging you on that.

I am certainly judging you on letting her watch problem unsuitable for her..

Yours Judgey Judge Heifer

PS doesn't it make you question your judgement that so people on her think it is wrong? even a little bit?

forced to wail plaintively "But think of the children .. oh god won't anyone think of the children!"

like the woman on the Simpsons?

op-your child your choice but does what other posters are saying really not stop to make you think?
look forward to seing your posts after youve had next baby saying i cant get my toddler to bed as she wants to watch eastenders and i need a break.
again not judging on the bedtime-up to you but am certainly judging on choice of tv programmes you think are suitable for toddler.
feel free to be rude to me

but the first time the op posted was at 7-45 at night.

do people think that is really late for a toddler?

when i had dd1 (pfb [smile}) she stayed up with us everynight then her and i would have a long lie in the morning while dh went to work, i loved doing this with her.

when dd2 came along we had to get a bit stricter but 8-00pm would have been about normal for her then.

luckily for us dd2 has always been asleep for 7-30pm so we still had a bit of time with dd1 at night on our own.

i feel i must really be missing the point of this thread, i have never see eastenders in my life though but dd1 would watch some other tv with us.

I don't care what time other people's kids go to bed.

I do think it is really bad parenting to let young children watch Eastenders though. But then, I judge people who waste their time watching the crap that is Eastenders anyway.