Comments on: Celebrity Chef Nick Nairn slams BBC kids TV show

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 18:53:44 +0000

Get a life Nick Nairn….how many 3 year olds eat loads of vegetables? Yes we all hope our kids will eat healthy food but force feeding them vegetables is only going to make them despise healthy food when they grow up! I feel sorry for his kwids as it sounds like a form of child abuse if they are being forced to eat certain things! I bet if the programme featured Nick Nairn and his kids there would be far more complaints about the way that they were forced to eat what he perceived to be appropriate for them.Woolly and Tig is the best programme on Cbeebies at the moment so well done to the production team and Colin and Betsy McCreadie..keep eating the fish fingers and maybe even throw in a few chicken nuggets just to make it even more realistic with what 3 year olds actually eat

By: Louise Davies

Louise Davies — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 21:39:24 +0000

One episode of Woolley and Tig featured the family visiting a restuarant for the Daddy’s birthday treat! And Tig was shown being successfully encouraged by Woolley to eat spaghetti bolognese. So you see, it’s not all bad now is it???
I would like to know the method(s) used by some parents (including these celebrity chefs) in which to get toddlers to eat their greens?

By: Louise Davies

Louise Davies — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 21:34:19 +0000

I always include vegetables on my three year old daughter’s dinner plate, along with her chicken fingers, and mash. But she NEVER eats her veg, never has. Always ends up in the bin I’m afraid. So try being realistic, when making these demands that children should be given green stuff. If it was as easy as simply putting it on their plates, then us worn out parents would have nothing to worry about!!

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:50:26 +0000

This sort of thing IS what the show is about. It’s perfectly set for Tig to have some veg put on her plate, turn her nose up at it, then for Woolly to come in and persuade her to have it in his usual reassuring manner. That should definitely be a future plot!

By: Victoria Clarke

Victoria Clarke — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 21:23:54 +0000

My 2 yr old son has watched every episode over and over, and he loves his veg!! He should take a look back at some of the “meals” he’s cooked on Ready Steady Cook!! I would not even give them a dog, and certainly not my own dog for fear of food poisoning. Does Nick Nairn presume we are stuffing our kids with turkey twizzlers and gallons of ketchup?? Also if he doesn’t have a toddler why is he watching Wooly and Tig? I only stumbled upon this because I wanted a wooly spider for my son!!

By: Holly

Holly — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 19:21:28 +0000

I love woolly

By: Lily

Lily — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 19:20:05 +0000

Keep this programme. Don’t change it not one thing.

By: Lily

Lily — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 19:18:17 +0000

I have realised Tig only eats fish fingers. What a picky eater. Fish fingers might be ok.

By: Jane

Jane — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 08:15:18 +0000

I think he’s got a good point. He hasn’t said it needs to e an unrealistic amount of veg, just ‘some’. He didn’t come accross as irrational, or angry – he just highligted that the meals the main character are shown eating were of poor nutritional value.

Surely all meals are accompanied by at least one portion of vegetables? That doesn’t make it fake – just normal and healthy.
If it’s not the norm, why not?!
I’m not trying to argue that these scenes can damage a child, or stop parents feeding their children properly, but it does give a pervading sense of a normality that isn’t (or shouldn’t be) the reality for most families.

By: Victoria clarke

Victoria clarke — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 07:26:48 +0000

Nick Nairn Looking for some publicity by any chance?? What a totally bizzare & nonsense thing to make an issue of!
I think it’s a great programme- I watch it with my 3 year old most mornings- we never focus on what Tig is eating but whatever issue she is dealing with in that particular episode. It has actually helped my little one with lots of different situations & I actually think it would be a bit fake if Tig was purposely shown eating loads of vegetables as its just not realistic!