Unbelievable!

Emmarillo

Peppa Pig I could cope with but my daughter (now 13) went through an Angelina Ballerina phase when she was 4 or 5 and became a very bossy mouseling as a result.

I remember a lot of my friends parents banning Grange Hill - we were 13/14 at the time! It was when Gripper ruled the school,but watching it didn't turn me into a bully; and my daughter eventually grew out of her bad mouse behaviour!

Surely if you're watching Peppa Pig with your child and George asks for cake for breakfast, you'd say something like "How silly! we don't have chocolate cake for breakfast, we like..." insert what you do have.

I don't know...the world has gone mad!

dizziblonde

God help this lot if they get me as a teacher for their kids cos I splash in muddy puddles too!

fluffnutter

I remember flicking through my brother's 'Toddler Taming' book some years ago and recall a chapter called 'Don't blame Grandma'. Basically it said remember that you, as the parents, are the primary influence on your child and its behaviour, you're in control and you're not to blame Grandma (or Peppa Pig) for the random naughty things your child does.

It's too easy for parents to roll their eyes or throw their hands up and say 'How can we control our precious Jacinta when she's surrounded by all these terrible influences!'. It's billy bollox. It's your job to parent your child and not blame others.

Hermia

fluffnutter wrote: »

It's too easy for parents to roll their eyes or throw their hands up and say 'How can we control our precious Jacinta when she's surrounded by all these terrible influences!'. It's billy bollox. It's your job to parent your child and not blame others.

I think parents massively underestimate how much children can understand so blame others or think the child cannot control themselves. I work in a library and we have a kid's room where noise is allowed and a silent study room which is obviously silent. Parents take the kids in the silent study room, the kids scream and shout and I have to talk to the parents. So many parents have said, "but a child can't be expected to understand that they can be noisy in one part of the building and quiet in another!". Well, I always take the child aside and say, "you can be noisy in there because that room is for children, but this room is for grown-ups who have to do work so just must be quiet in here". I find most kids, except for the very tiny ones, do actually get this concept.

elfen

I still jump in puddles! When it's been rainy I'll stick my (waterproof) boots on and go and jump in the puddles!

coolcait

Caroline_a wrote: »

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9001511/Peppa-Pig-is-making-children-naughty-parents-fear.html
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Good heavens - is it April 1st already??!!!

Kaz2904

Oooh, I love puddles! There's nothing quite so much fun as taking a great big run up and jumping right in the middle is there! Many's the time I got my pants wet as it went straight up my skirt and that was in secondary school!

bigmomma051204

dizziblonde wrote: »

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....[/QUOTE]

Haha - u should read this http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1843172933/ref=asc_df_18431729336057805?smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&!!!!!hydra0b-21&linkCode=asn&creative=22206&creativeASIN=1843172933

"Asbo Fairytales" very funny :rotfl: 'Updated, foul-mouthed, chavved-up versions of the Disney-friendly trad tales. So we get Jack and the Weedstalk, The Butt-Ugly Duckling, The Crack Piper of Camden, Hansel And Britney and The Princess and the Oven Chip. Not one for your nieces and nephews.'

lilrahi

Exactly sassyblue! Norman Price annoys me no end, and it's all his Mum's fault!