Once my 9 year old came across Sonic the hedgehog with his eyes hanging out and blood all over his face…on YouTube kids I wouldn’t be surprised if Alf was having nightmares from something he’s seen!I don’t even let my seven year old use YouTube Kids . Not only was he on the iPad all day, every day, they weren’t supervising or choosing what he watched? That’s so lazy and irresponsible.
I don’t even let my seven year old use YouTube Kids . Not only was he on the iPad all day, every day, they weren’t supervising or choosing what he watched? That’s so lazy and irresponsible.
Honestly it's not so unusual for some parents to not be supervising their kids when using a tablet, my brother in law let's his daughter watch pretty much whatever she wants and apparently he thinks I'm too controlling because I won't give my son (of a similar age) his own tablet.I’m speechless about the whole thing tbh. The cruelty of filming him like that after going cold turkey, watching how distraught he is. All down to their lazy parenting. The most insane bit of it all is that they can’t even be arsed to choose something half decent for him to watch - who the duck let’s a two year old watch whatever they want on YouTube (even with the kid filter)?!
My youngest came across a similar Peppa Pig video on you tube too she was about 6! We had to tell them to only watch the clips on the offical page or those on the TV.Once my 9 year old came across Sonic the hedgehog with his eyes hanging out and blood all over his face…on YouTube kids I wouldn’t be surprised if Alf was having nightmares from something he’s seen!
If that was Ada distressed and Tommy videoing her, she would be appalled and not even upload it. But she’s found it funny and thought it was good content. Cos she’s a bleep.I truly believe her approach to parenting would’ve been so different if poor Alf was a girl!
She has been reported before to SS and nothing was done. She goes on about SS wasting their time with them and they should be concentrating on children falling through the net… that is literally Alfie. You’d be forgiven for thinking that video was an NSPCC advert
Absolutely this!Really I don't believe that any parents get it all right all the time, we all live. and learn through our experiences, but the screen time should have been flagged as a concern by Ash and Tommy long before now. They seem to have taken the path of least resistance with this up to now because it has allowed them to carry on with their own lives regardless. And I know my parenting at times also takes the path of least resistance, but there are short game days where I'm just getting by and far more long game days where I'm trying to instill the sort of behaviours that I want from my two year old. Is it easier to have my boy in front of Stick Man on the TV but I also know he wants to play with the play dough or be out on the swing in the garden - both of which require more supervision and effort (especially with a three month old baby to be managing). My recent PND diagnosis has made me question so much of what I'm doing and if I'm doing the right things for my children but I still try not to lean too much on the screen time, no doubt the sudden withdrawal that Alf is going through will be tough for them all....and with Ada being unwell I could well imagine that they might return to screen time for Alf sooner than they're suggesting at the moment.
Yes I agree there. My comment was probably too flippant but having their involvement has changed nothing with Ash and how she treats him. She’s still uploading things and treating him just as tit and she said they were signed off with no concerns before Ada was born, which they shouldn’t have been if they wanted to know her due date/birth plans etc like she said. Of course, every concern HAS to be investigated but it seems that it’s had no outcome (extra support like the reporter said wanted to happen rather than Alf removed from the home)Saying “nothing was done” isn’t true and is abit unfair on her local CS, she said herself they contacted her and agencies involved with her family to investigate - that is about right for an initial assessment.