Summer holidays are nearly over, and the kids will have to start going to bed at a reasonable hour-thank goodness. Trying to keep kid-friendly TV on until 9/10pm is not an easy task these days. Attempting not to sound like Mary Whitehouse it seems every programme is full of sexual references, violence, swearing, drug references, or is just mindless drivel to say the least. I don't mind a good drama or movie, but most are not suitable for kids. I do wonder that the BBC and ITV are still able to serve up the same depressing soaps at prime time before the 9pm watershed as they have for the last 20 years.
Last week in' Eastenders' ,apparently the storyline centred on one of the main characters becoming a drug addict, that along with countless murders, rapes, and domestic violence is shown to the majority of children in this country 4/5 times a week. Why? And why do we still allow it? What happened to 'Not in front of the kids!' ? I want my children to enjoy their childhood for as long as possible and to remain as children until their teens at least, and for that reason I have banned the following programmes, luckily my wife also hates them.
Reality TV-Big Brother, Get me out of here..., Paris Hilton etc
All Soaps-Eastenders, Coronation Street, Emmerdale, Hollyoaks, Neighbours, Home and away etc(once all soaps have been removed, there is pretty much nothing left!)
All Cooking programmes.
'Dramas' Footballers Wives, Holby City, Casualty, The Bill.
Quiz -Deal or no Deal(there really is no point to it!)
Of course we could do something apart from sit in front of the TV. We do, as often as we can, but this is England and the weather doesn't always cooperate. Telling two boys to read a book at 8pm doesn't work either, and you can only play so many games of monopoly, scrabble and battleships.
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