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I'm a bit confused about the roles...Mummy Pig works on her computer sometimes - but it always looks like she is writing a letter, rather than studying or working freelance (though how you would convey that...?!). As a mother who often works at home, perhaps I am analysing this aspect of things too much, though!!!

Try letting pre-schoolers watch Peppa Pig on BBC Alba, in Gaelic, and then keep your distance, but secretly listen to them rationalise what's going on. V funny. And not at all sexist.


Also they tire of it v quickly.


I'm trying not to ban anything for fear of creating whatever is the pre-school mentality's equivalent of martyrs.

Saila Wrote:

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> ... But isn't mummy pig just brighter and that's

> not really sexist?

>

> I assumed that George had inherited his mum's

> brain cell and Peppa her dad's

>

> So the gender is reversed in the children's

> generation

>

> George often 'gets' things before Peppa does

> despite being younger



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  • 11 months later...

Back to Peppa - it is a bunch of cartoon pigs running around in clothes and living in a house. It is so far removed from reality that I find it difficult to take its story lines and character development seriously or as a reflection on modern life. You need a big pinch of salt - preferably on the crackling!


Kids learn their attitudes to others from the real people around them.


That all sounds v serious and its not meant to - Peppa is just frivolous, take it or leave it.

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