Is This The Type Of Tv Programme We Should Encourage?

anotheoldgit | 08:05 Mon 02nd Jun 2014 | News

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2645647/Are-precocious-11-year-olds-Britain-Benefits-cheats-Gay-marriage-Absent-fathers-The-young-stars-new-TV-opinion-EVERYTHING.html

It is of course good that some talented youngsters have a outlet o voice their opinions and aspirations, but should these kind of thoughts be encouraged from a 11 year old?

/// Meanwhile, Amaria, 11, from East London, has crammed a lot of Margaret Thatcher-hating into her short life, describing the late Prime Minister as an ‘old hag’ who deserves to be ‘pushing up the daisies in her cold dead
grave’. ///

This comes from a child who's father was murdered in a shooting when she was two or three, perhaps she would be better to voice her opinions on gang killings.

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andy-hughes

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As any parent on here will testify, all children of this age have opinions. Based on scant knowledge of the world, and even less experience of it, they still like to hold forth what they think - and amen to that. But does that make interesting or entertaining TV? No, it makes cheap-to-make TV with good ratings porentia, which makes it about as valid a social...

08:49 Mon 02nd Jun 2014

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Kromovaracun

So I just finished watching Dinner at 11.

It's really boring. This thread was far more interesting than the actual programme.

ummmm

No, AOG, he wouldn't have been less troubled.

emmie

perhaps it beats listening to youngsters finish every sentence with innit, or dunno, i didn't watch it, not going to catch up either.

Mamyalynne

To suppress a young teen is to suffocate them and make them rebel even more, by all means explain why their ideas may be skewed but do not belittle them.

They learn as they grow.

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