""""""COTTON WOOL KIDS""""""CHANNEL 4""""""""""

[RTKangaMummy]

TONIGHT

oh how sad. Poor children arent children, they know too much
I keep trying to explain to hubby there isnt anymore children taken by strangers now than 20 years ago, LOL then they said it!

at the anxiety workshop,those kids will end with extreme anxiety disorders through their parents own fears

Crikey I dont think I can watch this... Its one thing to risk assess everywhere you go (as we all do in our head s as we are walking along), and to tell our kids not to talk to strangers.... but filling kids head with all this is a whole other ball game... really not fair on the kids and akin to abuse maybe.

sorry laptop playing up. I would be se embrassed if i was 13years old and my dad followed me around.

Had to smile though, when the mum was in the car pointing out all these people who could be murderers/abusers and the girl piped up 'even our family could be' - wise beyond her years that one but the mother obviously doesn't want to think about the fact that relatives/friends can be just as much of a risk or more than strangers.

How are they going to cope if something unexpected or untoward happens when they are adults and allowed out on their own? They aren't been given a chance to develop those skills.

I keep thinking emotional abuse as well

Fancy a parent telling a child that someone could put a towel over their mouth and suffocate them.

they would do better to tell them that adults arent always right, that sercrets that feel bad should not be kepts, and to trust their own feelings. Some 96% of abuse is someone they know

I turned it off, load of crap

am watching rick stein being annoying instead

this boy on right now is going to rebel big time when he's old enough.

i know hamster.. I was a worrier as a child (as I am now in later life), and was always worried the house would burn down when I was asleep..... God knows what I would have been like if my parents filled my head with all this!

Sid is more likely to die of a disease related to a sedentary lifestyle, than any dangers his father fears he may face on the street.

It's sad that none of them have realised an almost certainty of giving their kids mental problems (meaning anxiety etc, not necessarily 'serious' problems) is not a worthy trade-off just to try and avoid a relatively tiny chance of their kids being abducted/abused/murdered.

These parents are ill aren't they? I feel for them with all the worrying they must do but the poor children....

novacane- i used to worry the house would burn down when i was asleep too we had a smoke alarm way before they were normal!

i do agree that it is emotional abuse. how are these kids ever going to move out whilst thinking everyone's out to get them

This is awful. The poor children are nervous wrecks.

Surely the irony of it all is that once these kids are let out, or rebel from all these restrictions, they're going to be much more at risk than the kids that have gradually been working their way up to independence.

That Said boy, who is 13 and has never crossed a road by himself, how can he possibly learn to make good judgements or sensible risk assessment?

its funny isnt it luminar, think it might have something to do with my oldest friend setting fire to his bedroom when he was about 4- he always did have a worrying obsession with setting stuff on fire.... hes fine now l though lol

its funny isnt it luminar, think it might have something to do with my oldest friend setting fire to his bedroom when he was about 4- he always did have a worrying obsession with setting stuff on fire.... hes fine now l though lol

The worst thing I can see is, having looked into suicide rates/self-harm and 'causes' (for course), teenage suicides are on the rise and, along with other problems, some are because of too much pressure from parents/overbearing parents. How sad would it be if any of these kids self-destructed in some way purely because of the way their parents had tried to protect them .

do these children look ill to you guys

sort in their eyes

sonic- that's incredibly sad. my dd is only 3 at the mo but if she ever thought of me like that

what the hell is this woman thinking of? GPS like is used on cars

novacane- my brother used to light pieces of paper with the candle- think he was a bit of a pyromaniac

The kids look permanently slightly worried to me.

(and hi RTKM, WK-as-was 'ere )

Tagging a person is illegal surely? There's something inherently wrong with it.