Speaker 1: Now the show that literally the world is talking about
Speaker 1: Netflix show Adolescence. It is a show where a thirteen
Speaker 1: year old boy in the UK fatally injures another school student,
Speaker 1: and it has started this conversation around the world on
Speaker 1: are we doing enough with our children in the schools?
Speaker 1: Are we doing enough with our children at home to
Speaker 1: prevent this from happening, because in the UK crime from
Speaker 1: teenagers against other teenagers is absolutely rife, like the statistics
Speaker 1: are huge. Now, off the back of this conversation about
Speaker 1: adolescence and the popularity, the British Prime Minister has actually
Speaker 1: backed the fact that this should be shown in schools
Speaker 1: around the country, that it should almost start to become
Speaker 1: a part of the school curriculum to educate and teach
Speaker 1: against misogyny and how kids can be a little bit
Speaker 1: more media literate. And I know that's a really big
Speaker 1: thing for a teenager to understand. But with the likes
Speaker 1: of people like Andrew Tate who are consuming our young men,
Speaker 1: who we're teaching them absolutely abhorrent things, how do we
Speaker 1: counteract the crime that's happening. How do we say, Okay,
Speaker 1: it's not enough anymore for a parent to say treat
Speaker 1: your kid with respects like these things aren't enough anymore.
Speaker 1: So in the UK they're going to say, hey, you
Speaker 1: know what, let's bring this into the school curriculum and
Speaker 1: try and start it from the education system out well.
Speaker 2: I think if anyone hasn't seen it, a lot of
Speaker 2: it kind of revolves around screen time, and it revolves
Speaker 2: around young boys in particular forming very problematic views about
Speaker 2: girls because of the content that they're consuming online. And
Speaker 2: you know, it's a big conversation that's happened here in
Speaker 2: Australia recently around raising the age of social media use.
Speaker 2: But also the thing that kind of gets left out
Speaker 2: of that equation is how easy it is for kids
Speaker 2: to access sexually explicit materials online as well. And I
Speaker 2: thought the show was incredible. I think everyone who's watched
Speaker 2: it walks away from it thinking, not only is it
Speaker 2: the way it's created is amazing, it's this one shot film,
Speaker 2: but what it makes you think as a parent, what
Speaker 2: it makes you think is how you're raising your children,
Speaker 2: I think is really profound and interesting. My take home
Speaker 2: from this wasn't just about how there needs to be
Speaker 2: work done with kids, but I also think there needs
Speaker 2: to be worked on with parents. I don't think that
Speaker 2: we are in time when parents can be illiterate to
Speaker 2: what their children are consuming online anymore. I think that
Speaker 2: if your kids have a screen, if they have computers
Speaker 2: in their room, if they are young and impressionable, then
Speaker 2: there has to be an understanding of what it is
Speaker 2: that they could be consuming, and there has to be
Speaker 2: conversations that are happening with your kids at home, not
Speaker 2: just with kids at school for that change to happen.
Speaker 1: Well, there's a woman named Somasara who has founded a
Speaker 1: charity which focuses on highlighting a lot of violence against children,
Speaker 1: and she has collected thousands of anonymous testimonies from women
Speaker 1: and girls that describe what happens at schools on school grounds,
Speaker 1: and that is the groping, assault, sexist name calling, inappropriate touching,
Speaker 1: and the fact that this is increasing. So you think
Speaker 1: of how much work we have been doing as a
Speaker 1: society to try and counteract this, yet we're seeing an
Speaker 1: increase in it. So I think the education systems are
Speaker 1: at a bit of a wits end. It's like, so,
Speaker 1: what are we actually going to do to stop this?
Speaker 1: Because it would be a really scary time for a
Speaker 1: parent there's a lot of parents that are not doing
Speaker 1: the right thing. There's a lot of parents that are
Speaker 1: doing every single thing they can to teach their children
Speaker 1: and protect their children, and they're still seeing that it's
Speaker 1: not enough.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I think, you know, And one of the
Speaker 2: things that this show showed so perfectly is that it's
Speaker 2: very easy to think that it's not your child. It's
Speaker 2: very easy to look at your own parenting and be like,
Speaker 2: but I'm a good parent. I love my kids, I
Speaker 2: care about my kids, I want the best of my kids.
Speaker 2: I provide for them. My kid's a good kid, you know,
Speaker 2: And we always think that, right, Like you always think
Speaker 2: your kid's a good kid because you raise them, you
Speaker 2: want to protect them. But like in this instance, it's
Speaker 2: like there was so many other things that were going
Speaker 2: on with this boy who is the main character of
Speaker 2: this show that the parents just weren't aware of. And
Speaker 2: I would dare say that there are lot of kids
Speaker 2: who do horrible things and their parents are like, I
Speaker 2: never would have expected it from my child. And I
Speaker 2: guess like that's the thing is knowing that, like there
Speaker 2: are things that our kids can be exposed to and
Speaker 2: can be doing that we might not be aware of well.
Speaker 1: The British Prime Minister has said whilst it was difficult
Speaker 1: to watch, and he did watch it with his fourteen
Speaker 1: year old daughter and sixteen year old son, he said,
Speaker 1: I do believe if this is put into schools it
Speaker 1: will help students better understand the impact of misogyny, the
Speaker 1: dangers of online radicalization, and the importance of healthy relationships.
Speaker 1: I think, as much as it would be very confronting
Speaker 1: for a lot of people to watch, if you are
Speaker 1: in your late teens, I think you're old enough to
Speaker 1: consume this content and if it is going to help
Speaker 1: with the things that they think it's going to help with,
Speaker 1: then I would absolutely be all for it shown in
Speaker 1: schools to kickstart that conversation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree, And I also think if you're a
Speaker 2: parent and you're listening to this and you haven't watched
Speaker 2: it yet, I think watching it with your kids so
Speaker 2: that you can have the discussion. I don't think that
Speaker 2: there's any point a fourteen year old watching it on
Speaker 2: their own, because if they don't already understand, they're not
Speaker 2: going to just comprehend by watching a TV show. There
Speaker 2: needs to be that sort of adult intervention or you
Speaker 2: know the school system whatever it is, but there has
Speaker 2: to be the support that goes with watching something like that,
Speaker 2: So definitely watch it with your kids and have discussions afterwards.
Speaker 1: Yeah, having said that, it is time for us to
Speaker 1: get out of here. We're going to see you again
Speaker 1: tomorrow