I feel the very need to rant about something.
Childrens Television, in the press today, we are being advised to limit the amount of television that our children watch.
Now, I know that we shouldn't abandon our children in front of the tele, but we all do, at some time or another you have something that you need to get on with and the television is a fantastic babysitter.
In this modern age of digital television, we don't even have the worry of there not being anything suitable on. There is a whole channel - CBeebies - for those among us with no children 
, dedicated to amusing out littlest members of society.
This is a very important job, amusing our littlest, and I have often entrusted my children to the channel for disgustingly long short periods of time. So imagine my utter horror, when a few weeks ago, I actually sat with the children for the briefest of moments and saw exactly what it is that they are watching, CBeebies newest creation.........
In The Night Garden.
The programme is 25 minutes long - 25 minutes too long in my opinion.
The main characters are - Iggle piggle, upsy daisy and makka pakka.
They live in a garden, they travel in a big hot air balloon called the pinky ponk, they also travel on a train called the ninky nonk. One of them pushes a trike called the og pog, they have little friends called the pontipines and the tomblioos...............
There is no proper speech in the programmes just a narrator telling you over and over again that they are going for a ride in the ninky nonk or whatever.
It isn't educational like The Tweenies it's utter trash - and my kids aged 3 and 6 absolutely love it...........
With programmes like this being aired to our littlest folk it's no wonder we have such a high amount of 16-24 years olds out of employment or education - they've all lost the will to function!
