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"Girls and Boys alone" - but MY daughter/son would not behave like that!

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LightShinesInTheDarkness · 04/02/2009 08:14

Did anyone else watch thinking that their kid would not daub scary slogans on a wall of younger kids, not share food, spray paint in a gun, would at least know how to heat up beans?

All that was going through my head was that mine would be better - but maybe that is the whole point. Presumably all the parents of the kids in the show thought that?

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SammyK · 04/02/2009 08:17

Oh no I missed this! Will have to try and find a repeat or watch it online.

mankyscotslass · 04/02/2009 08:18

But would they be any better? Wasn't this just a televised "Lord of the Flies" experiment?

IamLeticiaDean · 04/02/2009 08:20

I wonder whether the fact that many of us would never even consider putting our children on TV in this way has a bearing on this question?

LoveMyGirls · 04/02/2009 08:21

I watched it and just asked my 9 yr old dd what she would do if she had been expected to stay in the "scarey" house she said she would either make the older ones clean it off/ paint over it or make them stay in that house and she would stay in their house instead. Iasked what she would cook and she said she'd try to cook and if needed she would cook for the younger children too which is sweet of her. She did also say if anyone squirted her with water or paint she would freak!

LoveMyGirls · 04/02/2009 08:22

I asked dp if he would let dd do it and we both said no way!

sarah293 · 04/02/2009 08:27

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LightShinesInTheDarkness · 04/02/2009 08:46

Maybe in that parent-free situation, its instinct that takes over from learned behaviour, and survival becomes the uppermost driving force?

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GooseyLoosey · 04/02/2009 08:55

I think my children might behave like that (although they are much younger).

We have rules and a value system at home and they do not behave like that, but the reason we have rules and enforce them is because children do not have the self restraint of adults and living within a stable society is a still which needs to be learned.

madwomanintheattic · 04/02/2009 09:05

i liked the clip at the end which showed the camera man restraining one boy, and the earlier snap where he disarmed the lad with the garden fork just in the nick of time.

which one's gonna get eaten, then?

shabster · 04/02/2009 09:08

My 11 yr old DS4 watched the programme and was fascinated by it. He was even more amazed when I told him at the beginning that the girls would be bitchy nasty and cry a lot and the boys would be fighting, bitchy nasty and cry an awful lot mainly cause they missed their mums

As the programme started I picked out the two girls who would be 'trouble!!'

DS4 is looking forward to next weeks programme as, in his words, 'They give them loads of money and I cant wait to see how they spend it!!'

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LightShinesInTheDarkness · 04/02/2009 09:09

Goose - i think you have hit the nail on the head, of course you are right. Which leads on the other discussion about why people would let their kids do it.

I am off to teach my DCs how to cook pasta and put the washing machine on!

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Sherbert37 · 04/02/2009 10:19

Watched this with DS2,11. He is a sympathetic soul and was so sad for the poor girl who was bullied. He was horrified at what went on. Straight afterwards, at 10pm, I showed him how to load the washing macine and dragged a reluctant 16 year old over to to watch! Did lead to some interesting talk in our house but not sure I will let DS2 watch it next week.

bigTillyMint · 04/02/2009 10:31

My DC (8 and 9) want to watch this!

DH and I watched it last night, and all I could think was how embarrassed the mums of the really nasty older girls must have been.

And why did it have to be Ryan from Peckham who clearly has behaviour ishooos?

Sadly, I know that if DS was on this, he would be trying to rule the roost.

SammyK · 06/02/2009 14:57

I watched this online and was not at all schocked at the older girls horrid behaviour, I hope their mums were as appalled as I was, tho they didn't seem to be whilst watching them on the CCTV

I really felt for the little lad who couldn't even make himself a pot noodle. Did it not occur to his mum that it might be helpful to show him how to make some toast/boil the kettle, knwoing he would be on his own.

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