Cotton Wool Kids - TV Programmes

Prince Monalulu · 10-04-2008, 20:05

Channel 4 now, 9pm.

Time to have a giggle at the paranoid.

Virtuousdream · 10-04-2008, 20:17

woah, these kids sound like old women!

10-04-2008, 20:17

All these kids that have been told about Madeleine McCann.
Nothing like scaring your children

"I think she's dead now". wtf?!

Nlogax · 10-04-2008, 20:28

"He doesn't have enough experience of the outside world..."

Well why don't you give him some??

*facepalm*

This program is going to get me all ranty at the telly now.

Prince Monalulu · 10-04-2008, 20:29

Yup looks like their parents are keeping them up to date with every development in the Maddie case too.
They know a little too much about for their age.

I like Sid's dad, would you like some gadgets, basically 'what will it take to keep you indoors?'
Sid's wise to all the techniques though, not that it'll help him get out of the house.

noodle80 · 10-04-2008, 20:29

I am horrified what the hell are these parents on? I have no clue how I survived childhood judging by the terrifying world out there!! "I'm scared on teenagers, they might be in gangs, youths or killers!!"

Lyricalis · 10-04-2008, 20:32

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Originally Posted by noodle80

I am horrified what the hell are these parents on? I have no clue how I survived childhood judging by the terrifying world out there!! "I'm scared on teenagers, they might be in gangs, youths or killers!!"

I know it's bonkers. Do these kids think that they'll turn into violent hoodie gang members when they become teenagers?

Staunchy · 10-04-2008, 20:34

Oops didn't see this thread...

Quote:

Time to have a giggle at the paranoid.

I can't laugh they make me too angry.

ConanSan · 10-04-2008, 20:37

If I ever, ever have kids and treat them like this, I want social services to come into my house, punch me in the face and drag the kid outside to the street (not litterly drag of course) and show me that they will not explode out of the sheer audacity of it.

I only started watching at the 30 min mark and I can tell most of these kids know they're being screwed around with.

Prince Monalulu · 10-04-2008, 20:38

I liked the mum almost coaching the little girl in the back of the car.
'He might be a killer, she might be a killer'

Sid and his brother leading mum a merry dance, just to get away from her for 5 minutes.
Frankly I can see that boy losing the plot and doing a runner for a few hours, just to get away.

What is that Dad on he remembers playing out for hours, but he doesn't let his kids do anything like it.

10-04-2008, 20:40

Stuck in their bedrooms, alone, playing computer games.
Deary me. One wonders what kind of adults are these children going to grow into.

ConanSan · 10-04-2008, 20:44

and now they're chipping thier kids like dogs.

actauly, no, bugger it, dogs have it better!

Staunchy · 10-04-2008, 20:44

Sid's dad at the very least needs to teach him some manners, talking to someone while wearing earphones GggggrrrRRrrrr!! Do all the parents drive 4x4s? Kids are safe inside but woe betide any that get knocked over by one.

AmJ · 10-04-2008, 20:45

These poor children.

It almost makes me cry, imagine putting all those horrible thoughts in their little minds.

How thick can you be not to realise you are frightening your children with such tales.

Yes, make them aware to an extent, but these children don't seem to go out alone so why all the unnecessary information?

Arrgggh!

Lyricalis · 10-04-2008, 20:45

Anyone else see that fatal flaw in putting those tags in children? What if the evil child catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang goes hi-tech?

ConanSan · 10-04-2008, 20:47

He will be a god who looks upon these fools with distain and strikes them with the sword of justice.

or something like that, this program is winding me up three ways to sunday.

dizzychick · 10-04-2008, 20:49

I can relate to some of this program.. Ok more so with my youngest now.. he is 9. It's my biggest fear something will happen and I cant help him... It is a different world we they are growing up in.. kids are killing kids...

EDIT TO ADD: He is allowed to play out, but with very firm boundaries. As I said I can relate to some of this program, not all.

Lyricalis · 10-04-2008, 20:51

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Originally Posted by Barry Scott

Stuck in their bedrooms, alone, playing computer games.
Deary me. One wonders what kind of adults are these children going to grow into.

We are already seeing this where I work. My boss (who also helps run the year in industry scheme at our company) was telling me the other day that he often gets phone calls from the parents of people on our year in industry scheme. The 'children' tell their parents everything including any work problems they have and then their parents ring up to fix things for them. The kids (in their twenties remember) are too timid to bring anything up themselves.

Most go home every weekend as well and I know of one guy who had his mother move down and live in the same B&B as him while he was here over the summer!

10-04-2008, 20:51

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Originally Posted by Lyricalis

Anyone else see that fatal flaw in putting those tags in children? What if the evil child catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang goes hi-tech?

No chance, the chip IDs will be encrypted....
...but then, the Professor* could be a paedophile, having setup this system just to satisfy his twisted fantasies

Warn the kids immediately

*in no way am I saying for 1 second that Prof Kevin Warwick is a kiddie fidler.

ConanSan · 10-04-2008, 20:55

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Originally Posted by dizzychick

I can relate to some of this program.. Ok more so with my youngest now.. he is 9. It's my biggest fear something will happen and I cant help him... It is a different world we they are growing up in.. kids are killing kids...

EDIT TO ADD: He is allowed to play out, but with very firm boundaries. As I said I can relate to some of this program, not all.

We're not talking common sence bounderies here, we're talking children who should be young adults being kept children because the parents think they will explode the very second they are outwith thier sight for more than five seconds.

Your doing the expected thing here, your responsible for your child.

Dryheat · 10-04-2008, 20:58

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Originally Posted by Barry Scott

No chance, the chip IDs will be encrypted....
...but then, the Professor* could be a paedophile, having setup this system just to satisfy his twisted fantasies

Warn the kids immediately

*in no way am I saying for 1 second that Prof Kevin Warwick is a kiddie fidler.

All encryption can be crackerd.
The only people who will have this would be kids anyway, so all they need is a scanner to see where all the kids are.

Its like U.S passports where the only ones with rfid tags are american. What stops people making devices that go after people with these tags.

Lyricalis · 10-04-2008, 21:02

Quote:

Originally Posted by Barry Scott

No chance, the chip IDs will be encrypted....
...but then, the Professor* could be a paedophile, having setup this system just to satisfy his twisted fantasies

Warn the kids immediately

*in no way am I saying for 1 second that Prof Kevin Warwick is a kiddie fidler.

Of course there is nothing to stop a kidnapper from torturing the child until he/she tells him/her where the chip was inserted and then it being cut out with a scalpel...

How well would it work indoors or underground?

Why do I have such a morbid imagination?

Lyricalis · 10-04-2008, 21:03

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Originally Posted by Dryheat

All encryption can be crackerd.
The only people who will have this would be kids anyway, so all they need is a scanner to see where all the kids are.

Its like U.S passports where the only ones with rfid tags are american. What stops people making devices that go after people with these tags.

Exactly, you don't need to decrypt it to know that it's there.

WokStation · 10-04-2008, 21:08

That documentary made me rather depressed.

I worked in childcare for 10yrs, working with kids aged 7-14. The things coming out of the kids' mouths on that show absolutely astonished me.
They should be scared of the dark. Of spiders. Maybe even Daleks. Not murderers, kidnappers and rapists.

Lyricalis · 10-04-2008, 21:15

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Originally Posted by WokStation

That documentary made me rather depressed.

I worked in childcare for 10yrs, working with kids aged 7-14. The things coming out of the kids' mouths on that show absolutely astonished me.
They should be scared of the dark. Of spiders. Maybe even Daleks. Not murderers, kidnappers and rapists.

The sad thing is that you could give them all the statistics you want that show that children are in no more danger now than in years past and they wouldn't listen. The don't seem to believe anything apart from what the tabloids tell them and it seems they are passing that same behaviour on to their own children. It makes you wonder how the children of the next generation will be treated by their parents, assuming that the current generation of kids are ever allowed out to meet anyone when they reach adulthood!

10-04-2008, 20:05	#1
Prince Monalulu Forum Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 10,779	Cotton Wool Kids Channel 4 now, 9pm. Time to have a giggle at the paranoid.

10-04-2008, 20:17	#2
Virtuousdream Forum Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Bristol Posts: 2,532 Blog Entries: 9	woah, these kids sound like old women!

10-04-2008, 20:17	#3
Barry Scott Posts: n/a	All these kids that have been told about Madeleine McCann. Nothing like scaring your children "I think she's dead now". wtf?!

10-04-2008, 20:28	#4
Nlogax Forum Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Barnes, SW London Services: Lots of Apple, some Canon and some bagels and coffee. Posts: 538	"He doesn't have enough experience of the outside world..." Well why don't you give him some?? facepalm This program is going to get me all ranty at the telly now.

10-04-2008, 20:29	#5
Prince Monalulu Forum Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 10,779	Yup looks like their parents are keeping them up to date with every development in the Maddie case too. They know a little too much about for their age. I like Sid's dad, would you like some gadgets, basically 'what will it take to keep you indoors?' Sid's wise to all the techniques though, not that it'll help him get out of the house.

10-04-2008, 20:29	#6
noodle80 Forum Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 31	I am horrified what the hell are these parents on? I have no clue how I survived childhood judging by the terrifying world out there!! "I'm scared on teenagers, they might be in gangs, youths or killers!!"

10-04-2008, 20:37	#9
ConanSan Forum Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 250	If I ever, ever have kids and treat them like this, I want social services to come into my house, punch me in the face and drag the kid outside to the street (not litterly drag of course) and show me that they will not explode out of the sheer audacity of it. I only started watching at the 30 min mark and I can tell most of these kids know they're being screwed around with.

10-04-2008, 20:38	#10
Prince Monalulu Forum Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 10,779	I liked the mum almost coaching the little girl in the back of the car. 'He might be a killer, she might be a killer' Sid and his brother leading mum a merry dance, just to get away from her for 5 minutes. Frankly I can see that boy losing the plot and doing a runner for a few hours, just to get away. What is that Dad on he remembers playing out for hours, but he doesn't let his kids do anything like it.

10-04-2008, 20:40	#11
Barry Scott Posts: n/a	Stuck in their bedrooms, alone, playing computer games. Deary me. One wonders what kind of adults are these children going to grow into.

10-04-2008, 20:44	#12
ConanSan Forum Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 250	and now they're chipping thier kids like dogs. actauly, no, bugger it, dogs have it better!

10-04-2008, 20:44	#13
Staunchy Forum Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 2,238	Sid's dad at the very least needs to teach him some manners, talking to someone while wearing earphones GggggrrrRRrrrr!! Do all the parents drive 4x4s? Kids are safe inside but woe betide any that get knocked over by one.

10-04-2008, 20:45	#14
AmJ Forum Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Never where I am supposed to b Services: Love my Pinnacle. Posts: 238	These poor children. It almost makes me cry, imagine putting all those horrible thoughts in their little minds. How thick can you be not to realise you are frightening your children with such tales. Yes, make them aware to an extent, but these children don't seem to go out alone so why all the unnecessary information? Arrgggh!

10-04-2008, 20:45	#15
Lyricalis Forum Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Gender: Male Location: Lost Posts: 8,942	Anyone else see that fatal flaw in putting those tags in children? What if the evil child catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang goes hi-tech?

10-04-2008, 20:47	#16
ConanSan Forum Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 250	He will be a god who looks upon these fools with distain and strikes them with the sword of justice. or something like that, this program is winding me up three ways to sunday.

10-04-2008, 20:49	#17
dizzychick Forum Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Looking For Services: My Missing Body Parts! Posts: 12,815	I can relate to some of this program.. Ok more so with my youngest now.. he is 9. It's my biggest fear something will happen and I cant help him... It is a different world we they are growing up in.. kids are killing kids... EDIT TO ADD: He is allowed to play out, but with very firm boundaries. As I said I can relate to some of this program, not all.

10-04-2008, 21:08	#24
WokStation Forum Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Services: Half meg ADSL, Freeview. Posts: 13,842 Blog Entries: 5	That documentary made me rather depressed. I worked in childcare for 10yrs, working with kids aged 7-14. The things coming out of the kids' mouths on that show absolutely astonished me. They should be scared of the dark. Of spiders. Maybe even Daleks. Not murderers, kidnappers and rapists.