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Anyone have kids who watch the show? I'll be glad when its over...
Kearie | Tuesday, September 26, 2000 - 11:56 am  I have a 15 yr old daughter. She can watch the show if she wants, generally she doesn't. The only person she liked on the show was Brit. I rarely watch the live feeds. I do know for a fact that kids this age have learned that cussing is either okay or not okay. In my family we rarely cuss, it is certainly not an everyday thing for my husband and I. For my daughter this is very different. Peer pressure has already gotten to her. I do not try to control her cursing at school or with her friends. It is futile. She is allowed to curse in her room with her friends, but never outside that area and never to an adult. There is no talk on the live feeds she hasn't heard already at school. Most of the time she thinks the HG are stupid. She also lost her internet privledges. She got TOSed to many times for fowl language in chatrooms. We can't always protect kids from the ugliness in the world, there comes a point that we just have to let go and let them learn on there own. |
Majic | Tuesday, September 26, 2000 - 12:01 pm  I know a lot of it is done for effect and some kind of reaction from the others too. After all I have seen Eddie say excuse me to the pug when he burped in front of her. I had to laugh that day. |
Lafatme | Tuesday, September 26, 2000 - 03:23 pm  i have to agree with kearie. you can't protect children from real life then expect them to be prepared for it. the important lesson for children is that there are people who use crude language out there but "we don't talk like that in this family" children can learn as much, or more, from bad role models as from good ones. i remember many times my mom pointed out someone whose behaviour, or language, was "unacceptable" and using it to teach me manners and politeness. it is, however, the responsibility of each parent to decide the rules for their children. each of us is different. |
Franny1 | Tuesday, September 26, 2000 - 03:57 pm  CBS and BB have made it perfectly clear that this is not a show for kids. |
Something | Tuesday, September 26, 2000 - 04:49 pm  Did you know that you can turn a TV off if you don't want to hear what is on it? |
Jacque | Tuesday, September 26, 2000 - 05:03 pm  Great thread, folks. I posted this topic in the "Eddie advantage, he's censored" thread before I found this one. No doubt this is not for kids, however, even when my kids walk into the room when I am watching the feeds, I have to turn it off because Eddie is so vulgar. Now, for those people in here with a bad attitude.. Go play on your own threads... or better yet, go play in the street. |
Franny1 | Tuesday, September 26, 2000 - 05:45 pm  The only way to fix this is to tape the show and watch the feeds when your kids are at school or sleeping. You must rent movies that are not for children and watch them when the kids aren't around. This is a parental choice. |
Noslonna | Tuesday, September 26, 2000 - 05:47 pm  I do not mind my children watching BB on TV and I have the Live Feeds running almost all day on one computer so they can listen to it whenever they happen to be nearby. My youngest son is 10 and I have never heard him say one swear word in his life. He is not very interested in the Live Feeds but after watching the last TV show he asked me if he could make a phone call to banish Jamie. I was actually surprised because I didn't think he was very aware of the show, he has a very pleasant nature and his usual main criteria for liking a girl is that she is "nice." I asked him why but he couldn't explain except to say "she looks mean" and he "just doesn't like her." My daughters do not swear, at least not in front of me. Occasionally my 16 year old daughter will comment on Eddie swearing too much but she likes him and finds him funny. My 12 year old daughter liked Brittany but now her favourites are Eddie, because he is funny, and Josh, because she thinks he is "cute." Sometimes on a weekend her and a couple of her 12 year old friends will pull chairs up in front of our biggest monitor, put the Real Player on full screen, and sit and watch and giggle for awhile as if it was a TV. My 15 year old daughter is not even slightly interested in the show or Live Feeds. My 27 year old daughter comes by and watches Live Feeds with me occasionally and she tends to take Jamie's side as the only woman left. However, she is hoping Eddie wins, she says he makes her feel emotional and she admires him. My oldest son (25) doesn't watch the show regulary but he will listen to me on our weekly long-distance calls when I fill him in on latest events (I'm sure rolling his eyes as I speak). He has seen it a couple times on TV but didn't find it very interesting. He thought Brittany looked like she would be fun. (he had a very similiar girlfriend when he was younger and we all adored her.) Basically I think my children see BB as a TV show and their mother's crazy, little obsession. They do not take it seriously and have not picked up any bad habits as a result of watching it. If anything it has initiated some interesting conversations, particulary concerning how different people can be and our perceptions of them. I do not believe we should allow our children to get their language, life styles or values from television. If you feel your children will be affected negatively by a television program then turn off the TV set. For most children, I think Big Brother is seen as just another television show. |
Majic | Tuesday, September 26, 2000 - 05:49 pm  Thanks for the support Jacque. I guess I just wanted to know what I asked (If anyone had noticed their kids language getting worse) but some people can't get past telling me and others that I am a bad, stupid parent. I actually think I am a pretty good parent and I think its better to discuss these things with kids (mine are 13 and 17) than to turn the TV off on them. |
Jade888 | Tuesday, September 26, 2000 - 07:37 pm  I allow #3 son who is 12 to watch the show as I really do not believe in censorship. Having 2 older brothers it is not as if he has not heard the words used especially the "F" word. He knows the difference between right and wrong and he also understands that only a person who is not comfortable with who they are needs to use these words to express their feelings. There are other words and other ways for him to express his anger, rage and feelings. In fact he is most turned off by Eddie and has even told us that for being from New York he would have thought that Eddie would have more class than that. (I was stunned!) But I had to chuckle as he thinks that New York is the cultural center of America...he loves NY. He really realates to Curtis and wants to go to Harvard since Stanford is the Harvard of the West...but it is not the same. I even take him to many foreign films where sex is natural and beautiful in the story line and he understands that sex is part of nature. It is not dirty or a nasty thing. Some children are more mature in their approach with how they handle different situations. |
Mbliving | Tuesday, September 26, 2000 - 07:39 pm  My kids are not very interested in the show. My youngest is always out playing so I don't have to be concerned with him, my oldest, she's 14, has overheard the live feeds once and awhile. I used to mute it when she came around and she would laugh at me and told me that the playground was worse. I have never heard her swear. She came by once and caught a sex conversation so now I'm pretty careful. She thought my reaction was funny, I wasn't as amused. |
Chris | Tuesday, September 26, 2000 - 07:50 pm  Jade888: > #3 son LOL, you number them? My grandmother should have done that, she had 6 kids, and could never get their names right. She would have to rattle off 2-3 names before she got the name right! Then she had about 20 grandkids, and she was REALLY A mess! (We always used her getting our names wrong as our excuse that it wasn't really us!) |
Jade888 | Tuesday, September 26, 2000 - 08:02 pm  That is how the Chinese grandparents refer to their grandchildren...I know it sounds wierd but my inlaws refer to them in rank and order. Of course in the old days...any son after the first would be garbage...but my inlaws are really cool. They come from the old country you know. The boys have nicknames for each other and my husband calls them by their Chinese names, not English names and when we travel overseas no one calls them by their english names. |
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