[Jessica.]

Originally Posted by AnnieK

My son is 14 and I have been very, very lucky with him so far. No major angsty boy drama, he's just a generally good kid. I have friends with similar aged boys and girls and they have been a nightmare. I do have a rule which luckily he has complied with and that currently is no tech upstairs. I don't watch much TV so his PS5 is in the living room and if he's on his phone its in their too and he leaves his phone downstairs when he goes to bed so even though I don't snoop through his phone and don't always hear what he is watching, I am pretty confident he is not taking the piss. Whenever there are news reports about dangerous or dodgy TikTok trends, we discuss them (or I discuss them and he rolls his eyes at me lol). Obviously when he is out and about or at friends houses I don't know what he's up to particularly but his friends are a pretty good bunch of kids.

I think in part I've been lucky with him that his personality is as it is and he's a generally good kid, coupled with mutual respect and trust has been the way to go on the parenting front with me. He can been a cheeky little git and loves a good swear when he thinks I'm not listening but I thank god i got a good one

Well done, Annie, it sounds like you've got fair boundaries in place and a good relationship with your son!

[AnnieK]

Originally Posted by Cherie

honestly Annie, he is a credit to you, in the main I think most boys are like this, having brought up two boys myself and interacted with their friends and friends parents they were all pretty respectful and normal, not sure where all these feral boys are coming from, do they exist? I am sure they do in small measure just like they always have done

Originally Posted by Jessica.

Well done, Annie, it sounds like you've got fair boundaries in place and a good relationship with your son!

Thanks both He is a great kid

[Strictly Jake]

It's been a couple of weeks since I finished watching this now and I still cannot stop thinking about it. It's definitely the most powerful thing I think I have seen on telly and is very important. My boys are now 8 and 5 and it's scared me the kind of things they could face very soon, as a dad it is my duty to keep them on the straight and narrow.

Anyway here are the scenes that I simply cannot stop thinking about, the whole thing was very special, but these scenes are something else

Youtube video

Youtube video

[Strictly Jake]

I love reading stuff about how the show was made there is so much genius thinking that went in to it, it's incredible. But for me one of the smaller details I love is in this ending scene and also the ending scene of episode 2 the girl singing is the girl who plays the girl that gets killed which is a pretty clever thing to do.

But one small detail I appreciate and I haven't seen it mentioned on any of the parts I've looked into how they made it was the fact Jamie is always wearing just a plain white polo top. Say for instance he was wearing a hoodie as silly as it sounds it takes away some of that innocence about him, all the boys I see when picking mine up from primary all come out wearing white polo tops, so the message is sort of this could happen to anyone. You need to keep on top of what sort of things they might be getting sucked into. I'm probably babbling on but I get what I mean, just loved everything about it!

[Alf]

Originally Posted by Strictly Jake

It's been a couple of weeks since I finished watching this now and I still cannot stop thinking about it. It's definitely the most powerful thing I think I have seen on telly and is very important. My boys are now 8 and 5 and it's scared me the kind of things they could face very soon, as a dad it is my duty to keep them on the straight and narrow.

Anyway here are the scenes that I simply cannot stop thinking about, the whole thing was very special, but these scenes are something else

Youtube video

Youtube video

All those real life stabbings you've heard about in London and other cities. And it took a fictional drama on the telly to scare you.

[Strictly Jake]

Originally Posted by Alf

All those real life stabbings you've heard about in London and other cities. And it took a fictional drama on the telly to scare you.

Well as bad as it sounds Alf, yes. Of course we hear about the stabbings and we mainly hear about the victim. It's usually gang related violence. But I hadn't really understood the whole inCel presence that is on the Internet and what it can lead to and from an early age too, so yeah maybe I am a naiive person to have my eyes opened by a fictional drama as you said(but based on true events that happen) so yeah it did scare me and open my eyes to things I didn't know were happening. Think me foolish if you must Alf but that's why tv dramas are so good sometimes, look what information it raised about the post office scandal from the Mr bates programme. Sometimes tv is the best way to open people's eyes.

[Crimson Dynamo]