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My ex let my kids watch Steven Kings IT a few years ago - I wasn't happy about it when I found out, and it certainly had an effect on them.
Jeez, that film scares the [censored] out of most adults...
Thankfully I don't have this problem yet - Alex is only 18 months old, so he doesn't care what he watches as long as the pictures move! That being said, we only let him watch TV twice a week - and that's for Something Special, because we all practice the sign language as a family. Sometimes if he's being very good we'll let him watch Mr Bloom's Nursery too, as it's on before SS and he likes helping in the garden 🙂
Hey RealityCheque,
Just wanted to ask how you got into the sign language thing. I'm training to become an interpreter at the moment, am in the middle of being the 4th stage out of 5 to get my full qualification in BSL.
Try to teach the kids some bits, littlest one is only 3 but she loves it when we have signed story time and she'll wave her hands all over the place to copy me. How does your son take to it?
Just wanted to ask how you got into the sign language thing. I'm training to become an interpreter at the moment, am in the middle of being the 4th stage out of 5 to get my full qualification in BSL.
Quite simply, it was Alex's nursery that started it. They teach them makaton signs for please, more, thank you etc when 6 months plus so they can communicate better while unable to talk, and we've always encouraged him to use it.
We don't watch much TV at home but one day Alex was being particularly fractious while I had a hangover so I put it on to distract him from using me as a climbing frame. As a result we discovered Something Special (which also used Makaton) but while he only cared about the moving pictures I liked the whole sign language thing so we've now made it a treat for us to sit and watch it at the weekend. It was "Dad and Alex" time but Mum decided it was too cute when we built a den to watch it from so now joins us!
Try to teach the kids some bits, littlest one is only 3 but she loves it when we have signed story time and she'll wave her hands all over the place to copy me. How does your son take to it?
He's quite chatty now but he preferred to sign 'please' rather than say it until about 2 weeks ago and even now he'll do both at once. As for learning it from the TV, he's still in the "oooh moving pictures" stage so doesn't pay much attention to the specifics but Mum and me both learn them and use them when appropriate. He's now picked up ice-cream, sponge, sleep, and a few other random words.
Ice-cream is, of course, the most commonly used 😉 )
The most 'adult' things ours get to watch is CSI/Criminal Minds that the mrs is totally into, but in all fairness when it's on, they are playing so tend not to take much notice. Anything worse is always saved for when they're in bed.
My kids are going through the "comedy" stage at the moment on UK Gold. They are loving things like Only Fools and Horses, One Foot in the Grave, The Office, Not Going Out etc.
Some of these thing are close to the mark but I feel they should be allowed to watch them and they love the humour
It is also something we can all sit down to watch
Super M,
It's great your kids are enjoying the classics. Can't beat those timeless comedies and you introduced them to them.
Top bloke
Why thank you
Classics are great and they do love them.
We also love Life of Brian and Monty Python!!!
As for modern day stuff - Not Going Out and Outnumbered
It is important to laugh
I'm in the process of introducing my teenage girls to 24 and the one and only Jack Bauer. I think it will change their lives!
Having said that, I watched the first episode with them and need to fast forward a couple of scenes! Its easy to forget certain scenes when you've just been watching them with adults previously.
I'm in the process of introducing my teenage girls to 24 and the one and only Jack Bauer. I think it will change their lives!
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Well, it will certainly take a week out of their lives 😆
I watched all of the series, including a couple of series in a weekend each - very enjoyable but I'm glad it's finished.
My eldest said tonight that he is one of only a few in his class not to have seen the Inbetweeners - is it the sort of thing a 14 year old should be watching?
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