@treebee Said
I am afraid Sesame Street is the boss.
I LOVED Sesame Street. My kids watch cbeebies which is incredibly tame and funded by the BBC so pretty much 90% of it is educational to some degree. Cbbc isn't which I'm sure they'll eventually progress to.
Personally I don't have a issue with poo or b*** references. Poo is associated from infancy with being disgusting and preschool children call each other poohead etc as it's a negative association. Poo = bad. Boobs well they're boobs aren't they. Jake calls my boobs boobs. They're there from birth and the way the human body was designed to feed it's young. In full term breast feeders (as recommended by WHO) breast feeding continues to toddlerhood and even preschoolers. The
natural age for a child to self wean from the breast is between 2 and 7
years old. While I'm not a full term breastfeeder I have plenty of friends who do feed beyond infancy so of course my children will know what a b*** is and using the word isn't a big deal IMO. Tbh for a 7-10 year old boobs and poo are part of the course of growing up and learning to express themselves.
The main issue for me is allowing children unrestricted access to TV and not really caring what's on. As adults we watch TV for enjoyment and entertainment purposes I don't understand why it's deemed 'bad' for a child to watch TV purely for entertainment. My kids are allowed to watch disney films and they have no educational significance at all however they're read to daily and played with throughout the day.
It's all about getting an appropriate balance for your children. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and all that.