Challenging children.

[123everton]

I watched half of this show tonight and then turned over to watch "Panorama".
I was very impressed by the work the schools were trying to do with the kids (on the Channel 4 show) I believe in discipline.
But maybe more people shouting and laying down rules will just make things worse?
The thing I thought the kids got most out of was sitting at a table eating together.
B.B.C.1 on the other hand dealt with the older kids and sexual bullying, I see quite a lot of this when I'm working, and it appears to me we're on the verge of sexual assault timebomb. Attitudes are that entrenched.
What I thought was revealing was that the kids themselves are tired of the sexualised images adults foist upon them.
For example on the local news there was a feature about some inflatable people placed on a building as "art". An old man complained because they had genitalia, they asked adults and they were'nt bothered and then they asked a small kid and she said it was rude because they had bits.

[123everton]

Dunno how much space you get on this.
I agreed with a lot of what was said but they even had a mother on who said her daughter admired Jordan and that she thought she was'nt a bad role model!?
Whatever happened to the girl president?
!00 years of universal suffrage has given us this?
Now (at last) here's the point, would you agree that the need is to tone down the sexual content in the media?

[cassa333]

Yes, I would agree that the sexual content needs to be toned down.

Sex and a persons sexuality is a wonderful thing but it shouldn't be rammed down everyones face (no pun intended) and the threat to our children has become so great that I fear that the 'sexual bullying' you discribe will become a normal part of childhood and leave the flood gates open to any predator to claim 'they were asking for it, they knew what they were doing'.

I fear for my children.

[123everton]

Thing is when I see the kids in the Channel 4 show I'm pretty much sure how most of em are gonna turn out.
Badly.
I deal with d1ckhead after d1ckhead after d1ckhead in work, now the reality is that a child of 5 screaming and shouting obscenities and kicking people is manageable (they can be picked up) but an adult's tantrum.
That's a different dance.
I look back at the 60s (before my time) and they seemed to think they invented sex.
Truth is before then the adage not in front of the children applied.
Righly so.
But, I was in China recently and the TV is almost like 24 hour summertime special, awful.
What to do?