Exactly who ARE raising children?

Television shows are raising kids, all the way - I grew up on a diet of Saved By the Bell, 90210 Bev Hills (the 1990 version), Men Behaving Badly, the Office UK, Telly Tubbies, Spitting Image, Friends, Cheers and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and I like to think I have grown up a well rounded, well adjusted person! I was born in 1990, though I think I was lucky enough to be born just before the thug era - you look at the year 7s and 8s in my school, they don't have the respect for their elders that me and mine did back then - I think it's the education system that's messing us up though. We do exams every year from the age of about 7, when do we get to relax, stop and enjoy life in the now? There is so much depression nowadays amongst teenagers, down to exam stress, and that is the fault of the state. I think a lot of kids could do with watching some of the old TV shows and having a better understanding of real life (well, maybe not Buffy for this particular life skill....!) Good question, it needs to be said! xxx