Unbelievable!

BugglyB

Thats the laziest journalism I've ever seen in my whole life.

Its like taking a thread of this forum and a headline saying 'Women fear...' or 'Landlords worry' and then getting some doughnut from the Gnatsbridge College of Further Education for a 'experts view'.

Kandboys

sassyblue wrote: »

Peppa Pig is hardly naughty...... it's Norman Price in Fireman Sam that is! that little git would live on the naughty step if he were mine - with a permanently slapped backside.

:rotfl:That child needs an ASBO!!!!!

onlyroz

Never thought I'd hear Peppa Pig blamed for the rise in juvenile delinquency...

Elle7

Cor blimey...it's the "they say chocolate cake when I ask them what they want for breakfast, and refuse to eat their vegetables" bit which got me. Oh dear oh dear.

Maybe the producer needs to come out and say that it is a TV programme that they are supposed to enjoy, it isn't supposed to parent them?

dizziblonde

Plodging in puddles and kicking through piles of autumn leaves at the park (not the ones that have been neatly swept for collection on the street) are fundamental parts of childhood aren't they? As is ending up in A+E or the doctor's waiting room at least once with some idiotic accident (for my brother it was experiments in blu-tack up the nose and the effects of gravity over its stickyness, for me - think it was somersaulting over the back of the sofa when the sofa decided to follow suit) and dropping your parents in it relaying stuff they say off the record at least once with glee ("Muuuuummmm that man you said was a prat is on the phone for yoooooooouuuuu").

Mind you - I hate the pig - it's the fact that it's a) pink (obviously a fundamental hazard of being a pig), b) resembles a hairdryer on LSD and c) on every blooming item of clothing known to man... no other reason.

Now if you want brattish behaviour - Lola (of Charlie and...) - any typical big brother would have long since lost patience with the vegetable-averse little Madam.

Mind you - we had a long discussion one lunchbreak (don't ask!) about just what sinister messages traditional tales send out to kids... Hansel and Gretel - child abandonment, Three Little Pigs - kicks her kids out onto the street to fend for themselves, Goldilocks - breaking and entering, Puss in Boots - the dangers of letting your cat in your shoe cupboard....

dibuzz

You don't get much more violent than Wily Coyote or tom and Jerry but we've all grown up quite normal.

The puddle thing reminded me of when my youngest 2 were about 1 and 3. We were at a rugby training session with my 6 yr old and it had been chucking it down for days. Most of the other younger siblings were tentatively stepping into puddles, not my 2, they were running through the deepest ones, jumping up and down, falling over and having a whale of a time.
One mum asked if I'd stop them as her son wanted to do it and she didn't want him to get wet .I thought she was joking at first but she was serious and blamed me for her son having a full blown paddy.
I had to empty out 2 pairs of wellies full to the top with water and wring out their snowsuits when we got back to the car before we went home but I can still see those happy faces and hear their squeals of delight as they ran through the puddles.

daska

I remember many years ago driving back from somewhere with 4 kids in the back with no bottoms on because everything was soaked through. Isn't that part of having fun? And learning that every action has a consequence is a vital part of growing up LOL

dizziblonde

dibuzz wrote: »

You don't get much more violent than Wily Coyote or tom and Jerry but we've all grown up quite normal.

The puddle thing reminded me of when my youngest 2 were about 1 and 3. We were at a rugby training session with my 6 yr old and it had been chucking it down for days. Most of the other younger siblings were tentatively stepping into puddles, not my 2, they were running through the deepest ones, jumping up and down, falling over and having a whale of a time.
One mum asked if I'd stop them as her son wanted to do it and she didn't want him to get wet .I thought she was joking at first but she was serious and blamed me for her son having a full blown paddy.
I had to empty out 2 pairs of wellies full to the top with water and wring out their snowsuits when we got back to the car before we went home but I can still see those happy faces and hear their squeals of delight as they ran through the puddles.

Aaah those water-soluble children again! The uproar I've seen when foundation stage classes have gone out (fully wrapped up to the point of resembling Michelin men) in the snow to make snowmen and count footprints in the snow is nuts! Then I look back to when we were kids and it snowed - and one of the teachers would run out onto the field with a 10 second head start before the entire school rounded on him with snowballs and cornered him in a barrage of them!

fluffnutter

My husband says Peppa Pig's nose looks like a penis

Caroline_a

fluffnutter wrote: »

My husband says Peppa Pig's nose looks like a penis

:rotfl:Cor, that's a good way to stop us all in our tracks :rotfl: