Sorry JMH, but on this occasion I am inclined to agree with the lentil murderer. My 7 year old daughter and 4 year old son are avid watchers of Top Gear when it is repeated during daytime hours on Dave, but although I have the new series on Sky+ I have had to make excuses as to why they can't watch the new series, or at least fast wind through the bits I know to be unsuitable. I am not a prude, but I am a responsible parent and at the ages they are I deem my kids to be a little too young to be hearing this kind of language from people they recognise on TV.
I know that any so-called serious expletives are bleeped, and my eldest at least understands that concept, but they are getting a bit beyond the limit this series. I do, however, believe it to be a parental responsibility to vet ones offspring's viewing - I have my views about what is suitable for my children at what age, and evidently so does this evacradio character.
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scrotum,nipple,period,toss,balls and cocks
I am not telling you how to raise your children. However I want to point out you are missing out on a perfect oportunity to defuse "those words" because unless you are raising your children in a closet, they will be hearing those words.
I used to be a lot like that. Protect my child at all cost, but then two things happened in one week that made me change how I thought.
My 7 yr old nephew shot himself in my broher in laws truck. And my dog got ran over.
Now you are probably wondering how they are connected and why that would change my protective ways.
Well, as I have said, I live in Rural America and come from even more rural. I say y'all and everything. We eat crawfish and dance to the fiddle. I am not embarrashed or ashamed of it. I have traveled the world and I have never found another place I would want to live. (Except maybe Roatan Honduras)
I was raised with guns. (you eat what you kill) In fact I am the only person in my entire fmly to have never owned a gun or even held one, but I was raised with them every where. I can't think of a house that did not have at least one gun behind the front door. There were guns in every vehicle. I also have 33 cousins. Not one of us ever touched those guns, but we were taught from a very early age to NEVER touch one without adult supervision. My nephew had never learned those lessons because all guns were kept what they thouht out of his reach. Except for the one in the glove box that day.
I have seen "town dogs" all my life. See the same ones over and over crossing the main road. Never see one ran over. My dog dug out from under the fence and was killed before I knew he was out. Why? Because he had never learned road survival skills, so from that day on, my parenting changed.
Those words you object to are only "dirty" if you think they are. IMHO you are missing out on the oportunity to turn those words into harmless words.
Scrotum - Part of a mans genitalia 50% of the population have it
nipple - 100% of population has those
period - you have a 7 yr old daughter, you better start expalining. For the son, once a month in a womans life where she can be diff to live with.
balls - as in "balls of steel" means has a lot of nerve
toss - don't know
cock - rooster, walks proudly whether deseerved or not. someone who thinks they are boss of the yard.
Then you explain in your family, you do not consider those appropriate words to use. And while others may, in your family, you don't.
You do what you want. Just trying to show you the other side of the coin because I can promise you, there will be other 4 and 7 yr olds in the playground or school that has watched every episode of top gear. And worse. It is wise to have had your say before they have theirs.
