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the sun and the moon and the stars ([personal profile] eleanorjane) wrote in [community profile] agonyaunt 2019-11-20 08:36 am (UTC)

I am not a huge fan of this advice, tbh. Unless there was shrieking and yelling and massive hostility (which it doesn't read like there was), I don't think LW was out of line.

I think I would approach it by talking about how it's television and therefore it's made to be entertaining, not factual. You could get the kid on board by pointing out how other genres of TV are not real or realistic, and point out similarities in drama-generating and narrative techniques between cooking shows and other forms of television that she already knows aren't realistic. If her misconceptions have come from following competitive and reality-TV cookery, maybe turn her onto more "honest" cooking TV (straightforward "today we are cooking this recipe" style stuff).

But yeah, I don't think it's a bad thing for a kid to have this boundary, TBH. I think C&F missed the mark on this one.

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