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**Zesavenue** · 02-25-2009, 05:09 AM

The idea that the kids watching Cbeebies could have it all explained to them calmly may be a little flawed. The channel is for kids of around 2 and 3, and at that age not many kids have the powers of reason and logic to get past their animalistic reactions.

I'm sure if this was not something produced by the BBC then the reaction would be different. Tough gig.

I disagree, children are like an empty canvass, they have no inbuilt prejudice, from the day they are born they learn by example, children who are distressed by such a thing have learnt it from somewhere or someone, what's ironic is that it was most likely from watching their own parents reaction to seeing this one armed woman on childrens TV, they see Mummy/Daddy pulling an unpleasant face and hear the distasteful tone in their voice and pick up on it, which leads them to think, "if mummy and daddy don't like it and it can make them seem scared, then it must be really bad and so that makes me scared too". Bam, lesson learned.

I have a daughter who is 2 years and 3 months old, she regularly sees disabled people and has suffered from it not at all, she sleeps from 7 at night till 7 in the morning, eats everything and anything, has a very impressive vocabulary for one so young, she is loving and caring and wants to hug and hold everything and everyone and she didn't bat an eyelid at this presenter, or even noticed for that matter, i on the other hand did notice and mentioned it to the wife, but to my daughter, it was just another lady on TV. [yes] (Which is all she is.)

02-25-2009, 05:09 AM	#59
Zesavenue Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 455 Senior Member	The idea that the kids watching Cbeebies could have it all explained to them calmly may be a little flawed. The channel is for kids of around 2 and 3, and at that age not many kids have the powers of reason and logic to get past their animalistic reactions. I'm sure if this was not something produced by the BBC then the reaction would be different. Tough gig. I disagree, children are like an empty canvass, they have no inbuilt prejudice, from the day they are born they learn by example, children who are distressed by such a thing have learnt it from somewhere or someone, what's ironic is that it was most likely from watching their own parents reaction to seeing this one armed woman on childrens TV, they see Mummy/Daddy pulling an unpleasant face and hear the distasteful tone in their voice and pick up on it, which leads them to think, "if mummy and daddy don't like it and it can make them seem scared, then it must be really bad and so that makes me scared too". Bam, lesson learned. I have a daughter who is 2 years and 3 months old, she regularly sees disabled people and has suffered from it not at all, she sleeps from 7 at night till 7 in the morning, eats everything and anything, has a very impressive vocabulary for one so young, she is loving and caring and wants to hug and hold everything and everyone and she didn't bat an eyelid at this presenter, or even noticed for that matter, i on the other hand did notice and mentioned it to the wife, but to my daughter, it was just another lady on TV. [yes] (Which is all she is.)
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