Ben is now coming up to 18months old and to date we have kept him away from TV. However now we would be grateful if he would watch something for, say 10 minutes just to give us a break. Perhaps just long enough to get a cup of tea.
This morning as I was having my breakfast, I turned over to BBC2 to find Bob the Builder, and seeing as a couple of Bob’s construction vehicles look a bit like tractors, Ben was rapt and stood, pointing and laughing as Bob built a drive-in cinema.
However it did bother me greatly that Bob was using illegal scaffolding practices. The handrail was only a single bar and there was no kickplate to prevent tools being knocked over the side where they could cause serious injury… RIDDORs are just waiting to happen.
And it’s this kind of slackmanship that keeps me from letting Ben watch television. What kind of parent would allow their child to grow up learning unsafe construction practices? I mean who knows what bad habits he can learn from Fireman Sam, let alone the haphazard driving demonstrated in Roary?
In all honesty I am very annoyed and disappointed in the BBC in this respect. I would write a letter of complaint but I hear that Postman Pat is on strike…!
