Regardless of the fact that not many kids go to bed before 9 and most kids have heard of catherine tate..... whats all the fuss about someone using bad language and strippin off?
2006-12-20 10:46:44 · 14 answers · asked by ~☆ Petit ♥ Chou ☆~ 7 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Television
is there still a watershed?
because half of the stuff on before is not sutible.
take hollyoaks they should show that later it seems to be less clothes and less morals.
a lot of the sky digital channels seem to show anything at any time.
i don't allow my daughter to have her own tv in her room (maybe when shes 15, shes 10 now) i think it is anti social
and i can't moniter what she is watching.
2006-12-20 22:01:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
the watershed is in place so protect young children, who are very impressionalble, from seeing what the majority of society deems inappropriate. It is not meant to be a substitute for parenting and is it is the parents who have final say if a child watches a show after nine or not.
The watershed simply allows parents to know that their child wont see inappropriate content before a certain time ( varies from terrestrial to sat / cable channels).
As to a TV in their rooms, well they have an off switch on them. concearned parents simply turn them off. My two daughters have a tv with video and DVD in their bedroom, but no TV arial or cable connection, which gives me complete control over what sort of material they can watch in there. I can be safe in the knowledge they can only watch the DVD or videos that have been bought for them.
2006-12-21 06:20:12 · answer #2 · answered by gamer_boy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i love it when people say there's an on/off switch on the tele....course there is, but the lure of watching something ur not suppose to is strong.
I can understand the question.... there was a girl on tele that mimicked catherine tate to a tee... so how was she protected from the swearwords of Nan? And the question states "regardless" that kids dont go to bed early..... they hang out...or didnt you all do that? The question is obviously a THESIS that some of you seem to have overlooked. we know what the watershed is SUPPOSED to do but having read the evidence against....why is it there? I say it needs revising its too outdated.
2006-12-22 14:44:58 · answer #3 · answered by TrevnDi 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mine does not have a TV in his bedroom and neither have I; the bedroom has its purpose and the TV has no place there.
I agree about the nonsense regarding 9 o'clock watershed: the 6 o'clock news contain endless traumatic views for our young children... Right now as I type, my 11 year-old son is avidly watching a fabulous program called 'Animals in the Womb', which started at 9 o'clock!
2006-12-21 16:42:27 · answer #4 · answered by Nini 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
One of lifes little mysteries. Perhaps you ought to write to the authorities and point this out to them. I am not being patronising, I think that you have made a valid point.
My daughter does not let my grandson have a tv in his bedroom for which I'm enternally grateful. He has an addictive personality and it would only take a couple of these so called programmes that are shown at the watershed to send him hyper. And for him to think that life really is like that.
2006-12-20 18:56:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think parents are supposed to go into their kids bedrooms and check on them from time to time. I know that mine did, I never got to watch unsuitable things. It was usually turned off by 9pm anyway so that I could get ready for bed. If I was still wide awake I was told to read a book or listen to the radio instead. :-)
2006-12-20 18:58:45 · answer #6 · answered by Butterscotch 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The question is a thesis, what's he on about?
There should be no tellies in bedroom and the way programs are distributed either side of the watershed is a joke.
2006-12-22 18:46:17 · answer #7 · answered by Serene 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's an old fashioned rule which should be altered! They made the rule before the majority of children had TV's in their room!
If people are concerned that children are watching the wrong programmes then they should take parental control over it!
2006-12-20 18:49:51 · answer #8 · answered by michmac75 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Its a guide for parents to protect our children from programmes that have very violent scenes, scenes of a sexual nature etc not just bad language...
Just because children have a tv in their rooms doesn't mean their allowed to watch after bedtime, mine aren't!
2006-12-20 18:54:00 · answer #9 · answered by brownsuga 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Most kids have a TV in their bedroom?
You arrogant rich kid! Get a real life and learn what is going on in the world around you.
Just because your parents don't enforce any sort of standards doesn't mean the rest of the world has to sink into the cess pool with you.
2006-12-20 18:50:22 · answer #10 · answered by Aggie80 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋