Re: OT: Moving on from baby tv programmes

[Guest guest]

Sam doesn't watch TV at all, or a whole movie ever, he loves Dave Benson , anything with music, has about 50 favourites, sense of humour coming through now, copying things from video clips (huge for us) excpet it was Crocodile pulling down curtains and it was at Break-Away carers new house of 2 days..........ooooops

As for age appropriate......nothing at all

Mandi x

In a message dated 10/08/2010 09:56:33 GMT Daylight Time, Thorpeheather@... writes:

Those of you with older children, what programmes do your children watch? That would at least give us a guide.

[Guest guest]

Sam doesn't watch TV at all, or a whole movie ever, he loves Dave Benson , anything with music, has about 50 favourites, sense of humour coming through now, copying things from video clips (huge for us) excpet it was Crocodile pulling down curtains and it was at Break-Away carers new house of 2 days..........ooooops

As for age appropriate......nothing at all

Mandi x

In a message dated 10/08/2010 09:56:33 GMT Daylight Time, Thorpeheather@... writes:

Those of you with older children, what programmes do your children watch? That would at least give us a guide.

[Guest guest]

Boys got taste!!!! Me Tom and Joe would be very pleased if Sam liked the same!

Mandi x

In a message dated 10/08/2010 10:50:41 GMT Daylight Time, charmanhome@... writes:

My son is 11 and has recently got into pop music, Lady Gaga, Black Eyed Peas R & B stuff, he watches the music channels now instead of CBeebies.

[Guest guest]

What a fantastic insight into everyones lives!!

In a message dated 10/08/2010 11:28:35 GMT Daylight Time, Mum231ASD@... writes:

Boys got taste!!!! Me Tom and Joe would be very pleased if Sam liked the same!

Mandi x

In a message dated 10/08/2010 10:50:41 GMT Daylight Time, charmanhometiscali (DOT) co.uk writes:

My son is 11 and has recently got into pop music, Lady Gaga, Black Eyed Peas R & B stuff, he watches the music channels now instead of CBeebies.

[Guest guest]

Blast, hit the wrong key! As I was saying, what a fantastic insight into everyones lives.

loves music too. He plays the piano extremely well and has a wide range of taste from Holst to Strauss to all types of pop music. Draw the line at Scissor Sisters being played in front of the Grandparents though! Now on thinking, how normally is that, ha ha!

Love the thought of ditching the TV but I think that is one step to far for my old man.

In a message dated 10/08/2010 11:28:35 GMT Daylight Time, Mum231ASD@... writes:

Boys got taste!!!! Me Tom and Joe would be very pleased if Sam liked the same!

Mandi x

In a message dated 10/08/2010 10:50:41 GMT Daylight Time, charmanhometiscali (DOT) co.uk writes:

My son is 11 and has recently got into pop music, Lady Gaga, Black Eyed Peas R & B stuff, he watches the music channels now instead of CBeebies.

[Guest guest]

This is great, Sam doesn't do TV, he does YouTube not something I could manage without during holidays with 3 kids and working full time+++ 6 days per week, in fact two weeks in, I'd rather you took my left leg than internet access. We do do YouTube together though

Mandi x

In a message dated 10/08/2010 10:57:04 GMT Daylight Time, bbrowne123@... writes:

get rid of the tv - my two cents. Your child wont fall apart. Mine didnt. I relied on it too much for 'babysitting' and i knew where sonny was. But in retrospect I believe i was using it for the wrong reasons. My boy engages with us more and is always around me more now, wanting to talk and just be with me.

[Guest guest]

Mandi,

Out of interest, what does Sam watch on YouTube? only gets this as a reward (he got 1/2 hr yesterday for trying a tomato - Yeeha! Love the Cytoflora!)

In a message dated 10/08/2010 12:36:23 GMT Daylight Time, Mum231ASD@... writes:

This is great, Sam doesn't do TV, he does YouTube not something I could manage without during holidays with 3 kids and working full time+++ 6 days per week, in fact two weeks in, I'd rather you took my left leg than internet access. We do do YouTube together though

Mandi x

In a message dated 10/08/2010 10:57:04 GMT Daylight Time, bbrowne123 writes:

get rid of the tv - my two cents. Your child wont fall apart. Mine didnt. I relied on it too much for 'babysitting' and i knew where sonny was. But in retrospect I believe i was using it for the wrong reasons. My boy engages with us more and is always around me more now, wanting to talk and just be with me.

[Guest guest]

Various clips, Fun Song Factory, DBP, Noddy credits, credits of various things, Folks reciting peoms, he loves going on a bear hunt, Crocodile, Brum, wind in the willows, he doesn;t like cartoons, prefers animation. He does find other things though, he has fallen for carers new puppy and managed to find a black puppy on something or other and kept looking at it longingly

Mandi x

In a message dated 10/08/2010 12:39:43 GMT Daylight Time, Thorpeheather@... writes:

Out of interest, what does Sam watch on YouTube?

[Guest guest]

My son is 11 and has recently got into pop music, Lady Gaga, Black Eyed Peas R & B

stuff, he watches the music channels now instead of CBeebies. We didnt exactly

move him on though I realised when he was continually asking me to change the

radio channel in the car that he was interested in what was being played. We

encouraged him as its the first age appropriate interest he has had.

Other things we tried to move him on to and he will watch (but still prefers

CBeebies to) were Shrek, Wallace & Gromit, Fantastic Mr Fox.

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>

> Has anyone had success moving their child onto older childrens tv

> programmes?

>

> who is thirteen shortly, still watches Ben and Holly, Peppa Pig etc.

> I know they are good programmes and they have taught him loads but we

> have to ensure they don't become an obsession and I feel he could move on now.

>

> Our speech therapist year ago said that they watch what they can cope with

> intellectually, however, I am pretty sure that with it goes back to

> what he knows rather than what else is available. It is one of the few

> things he will still have a major strop over if we try showing him other

things

> on television.

>

> Those of you with older children, what programmes do your children watch?

> That would at least give us a guide.

>

> Many thanks

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

My son is 11 and has recently got into pop music, Lady Gaga, Black Eyed Peas R & B

stuff, he watches the music channels now instead of CBeebies. We didnt exactly

move him on though I realised when he was continually asking me to change the

radio channel in the car that he was interested in what was being played. We

encouraged him as its the first age appropriate interest he has had.

Other things we tried to move him on to and he will watch (but still prefers

CBeebies to) were Shrek, Wallace & Gromit, Fantastic Mr Fox.

x

>

> Has anyone had success moving their child onto older childrens tv

> programmes?

>

> who is thirteen shortly, still watches Ben and Holly, Peppa Pig etc.

> I know they are good programmes and they have taught him loads but we

> have to ensure they don't become an obsession and I feel he could move on now.

>

> Our speech therapist year ago said that they watch what they can cope with

> intellectually, however, I am pretty sure that with it goes back to

> what he knows rather than what else is available. It is one of the few

> things he will still have a major strop over if we try showing him other

things

> on television.

>

> Those of you with older children, what programmes do your children watch?

> That would at least give us a guide.

>

> Many thanks

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Of course he will have a strop, he got what he wanted before so taking it away

will have him wondering 'what's changed'?

We removed tv in our house (except for my bedroom where sonny cant access it).

The change in my son has been remarkeable. He plays with his toys, built a whole

range of cars and structures with his legos and 'whacky wigglers'.

More language, more wanting to be with us and most of all, shouting and copying

the tv language has stopped. The tv did him no favours.

Yeah, he asked for it and cried for it but i didnt relent.

Now tv (the odd dvd) is a real treat for a saturday night with a bowl of popcorn

and i can use this treat as a reinforcer for good behaviour all week.

get rid of the tv - my two cents. Your child wont fall apart. Mine didnt. I

relied on it too much for 'babysitting' and i knew where sonny was. But in

retrospect I believe i was using it for the wrong reasons. My boy engages with

us more and is always around me more now, wanting to talk and just be with me.

>

> Has anyone had success moving their child onto older childrens tv

> programmes?

>

> who is thirteen shortly, still watches Ben and Holly, Peppa Pig etc.

> I know they are good programmes and they have taught him loads but we

> have to ensure they don't become an obsession and I feel he could move on now.

>

> Our speech therapist year ago said that they watch what they can cope with

> intellectually, however, I am pretty sure that with it goes back to

> what he knows rather than what else is available. It is one of the few

> things he will still have a major strop over if we try showing him other

things

> on television.

>

> Those of you with older children, what programmes do your children watch?

> That would at least give us a guide.

>

> Many thanks

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Snooker, when it's on TV? H loves the Blues Brothers film (warning, lots of

swearing, but he hasn't copied it, fortunately). Current like is Mr Bean on

Holiday.

Margaret

> >

> > Has anyone had success moving their child onto older childrens tv

> > programmes?

> >

> > who is thirteen shortly, still watches Ben and Holly, Peppa Pig etc.

> > I know they are good programmes and they have taught him loads but we

> > have to ensure they don't become an obsession and I feel he could move on

now.

> >

> > Our speech therapist year ago said that they watch what they can cope with

> > intellectually, however, I am pretty sure that with it goes back to

> > what he knows rather than what else is available. It is one of the few

> > things he will still have a major strop over if we try showing him other

things

> > on television.

> >

> > Those of you with older children, what programmes do your children watch?

> > That would at least give us a guide.

> >

> > Many thanks

> >

> >

> >

>

[Guest guest]

Snooker, when it's on TV? H loves the Blues Brothers film (warning, lots of

swearing, but he hasn't copied it, fortunately). Current like is Mr Bean on

Holiday.

Margaret

> >

> > Has anyone had success moving their child onto older childrens tv

> > programmes?

> >

> > who is thirteen shortly, still watches Ben and Holly, Peppa Pig etc.

> > I know they are good programmes and they have taught him loads but we

> > have to ensure they don't become an obsession and I feel he could move on

now.

> >

> > Our speech therapist year ago said that they watch what they can cope with

> > intellectually, however, I am pretty sure that with it goes back to

> > what he knows rather than what else is available. It is one of the few

> > things he will still have a major strop over if we try showing him other

things

> > on television.

> >

> > Those of you with older children, what programmes do your children watch?

> > That would at least give us a guide.

> >

> > Many thanks

> >

> >

> >

>

[Guest guest]

We got rid of the tv too after CBeebies - we used to have cable and subscribed

to a few channels - amazing to think we weaned ourselves off and now we don't

miss it at all. Tim took down the aerial a few months ago.

First we just slowed up watching, then put the tv upstairs (knowing we could

bring it down if we wanted). We eventually freecycled it and with the money we

saved not buying a tv licence, we bought a flat screen and a dvd payer (without

an internal tuner/digi box).

We enjoy watching DVDs together occassionally - Tom and Jerry is great fun for

us all :-)

They are quite cheap to rent from the library and there's also LOVEfilm.

Best wishes,

Sandy

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 10/08/2010 11:24:53 GMT Daylight Time, Mum231ASD@... writes:

watches video's on a Saturday night as a kind of treat, he doesn't watch any regular T.V. though, none of his video's are age appropriate in fact nothing he does is age appropriate.

The V.B. people tried to get us to introduce age appropriate books but he is not in the slightest bit interested, it's all over his head so we are still reading Spider and such like.

Vicky

Sam doesn't watch TV at all, or a whole movie ever, he loves Dave Benson , anything with music, has about 50 favourites, sense of humour coming through now, copying things from video clips (huge for us) excpet it was Crocodile pulling down curtains and it was at Break-Away carers new house of 2 days..........ooooops

As for age appropriate......nothing at all

Mandi x

In a message dated 10/08/2010 09:56:33 GMT Daylight Time, Thorpeheatheraol writes:

Those of you with older children, what programmes do your children watch? That would at least give us a guide.

[Guest guest]

Hi Radhe,

Oh how we relate to your story! Exactly the same here. Stop from watching too much Peppa Pig or Ben and Holly on TV and during his reward time on YouTube he finds it straight away!

Similar also with the music although to some degree there is normality there. For example, when I buy a new cd, I listen to it many times to begin with but once I start to get fed up hearing the same pieces I change it for another. I think they just get more obsessed with it or perhaps hooked on it is a better phrase.

In a message dated 10/08/2010 22:32:08 GMT Daylight Time, radhe@... writes:

Hi , This is so interesting. My daughter who is fourteen still watches Barney and friends. It is the only tv serial she likes and when we came to the UK, I did not buy a tv at all so we would all get weaned off it. Well, guess what, she found it on youtube and megavideo. I don't think it has to do with intellectual level at all, since Ishko love to go to the movies. Especially enjoys the ones with good story lines or crazy slapstick. Oh, loves the martial arts stuff too. By the way, she thoroughly enjoyed 'Men who stare at goats' while dad slept through it. That said, she only watches movies in the movie theatres, not at home. It is the same with music, she loves and knows tonnes of music, mostly classical. Will listen to Classic Fm, but whenever she plays a cd, it will be the same one for a month or so, before moving on to another. Right now, I can't tell you how sick I am of Handel. I do think this is more to do with some sort of comfort from staying with the known, maybe a form of stimming. Regards, Radhe>> Has anyone had success moving their child onto older childrens tv > programmes?> > who is thirteen shortly, still watches Ben and Holly, Peppa Pig etc. > I know they are good programmes and they have taught him loads but we > have to ensure they don't become an obsession and I feel he could move on now. > > Our speech therapist year ago said that they watch what they can cope with > intellectually, however, I am pretty sure that with it goes back to > what he knows rather than what else is available. It is one of the few > things he will still have a major strop over if we try showing him other things > on television.> > Those of you with older children, what programmes do your children watch? > That would at least give us a guide.> > Many thanks> > >

[Guest guest]

here's a consolation for you, my neighbour's kid was caught with a six pack of

WKD and porno. Count your lucky stars!!

>

> Has anyone had success moving their child onto older childrens tv

> programmes?

>

> who is thirteen shortly, still watches Ben and Holly, Peppa Pig etc.

> I know they are good programmes and they have taught him loads but we

> have to ensure they don't become an obsession and I feel he could move on now.

>

> Our speech therapist year ago said that they watch what they can cope with

> intellectually, however, I am pretty sure that with it goes back to

> what he knows rather than what else is available. It is one of the few

> things he will still have a major strop over if we try showing him other

things

> on television.

>

> Those of you with older children, what programmes do your children watch?

> That would at least give us a guide.

>

> Many thanks

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

We have the same problem with my 14 year old. He like to watch the same things over and over, but I think it's important for him to keep up to date with age appropriate TV. We allow one for one. One show we've watch before for every one new, age appropriate show he watches.

From: Thorpeheather@... <Thorpeheather@...>Subject: OT: Moving on from baby tv programmesAutism Treatment Date: Tuesday, August 10, 2010, 4:56 AM

Has anyone had success moving their child onto older childrens tv programmes?

who is thirteen shortly, still watches Ben and Holly, Peppa Pig etc. I know they are good programmes and they have taught him loads but we have to ensure they don't become an obsession and I feel he could move on now.

Our speech therapist year ago said that they watch what they can cope with intellectually, however, I am pretty sure that with it goes back to what he knows rather than what else is available. It is one of the few things he will still have a major strop over if we try showing him other things on television.

Those of you with older children, what programmes do your children watch? That would at least give us a guide.

Many thanks