Children's TV is a great language learning resource. Justine feels very confident now at German level four year old, but feels obliged to watch telly with the children because much of it really ought to have a PG rating. Simon has to watch it too, so that Justine can hide behind him in the scary bits. Sunday afternoon Grimm's fairy tales are like remakes of the Blair Witch Project. Family viewing includes detailed diagrams of penetrative sex followed by full frontal childbirth. Granted, children should know where an egg comes from, but should they have to watch the little boy chicks being conveyerbelted to the big rubbish bin of death, or the little pink piggy jerking around following a massive electric shock, before it's blood gushes from its slit throat? Apparently, they should.
