Janet and John books trigger warning 😳

These days just being alive comes with a trigger warning

Lemonred

What a wonderful memory, I remember laughing till I cried, listening with my MIL. The books I learned to read with were Dick and Dora, and later Wide Range Readers. I was a right swot, and reading before school age.

Yes, my mum was a trained teacher, and didn't get back to work till I was 5, so you can be sure she was busy practicing her skill on us very early. I could write a bit too, and tho I grumble at Janet and John had only a brief acquaintance - the teacher just left a few of us alone who could read - classes were big in those days, us baby boomers, weren't they?

Just watched the Terry Wogan, Janet and John. Wonderful stuff and thanks so much for the link. Very funny and cheering.

It didn't require a trigger warning but I was amused watching Hitchcock's Dial M For Murder this weekend. One of the things that aroused the detective's suspicions was that the villain had been buying things with one pound notes!!! I can dimly remember fivers being unusual, buy pound notes?

What a wonderful memory, I remember laughing till I cried, listening with my MIL. The books I learned to read with were Dick and Dora, and later Wide Range Readers. I was a right swot, and reading before school age.

As for the Poster who wants me to be men and women to be women, may I introduce you to the man who Sexually Assaulted me last October (police guilty), but he thinks it was just a hug and "natural" or the many other women who have gone through far worse?

It's fine to read books from the past,

and see them for what they were,
of their time,
but please think of consequences and the big come-back of Andrew Tate and his brother.

Sarnia

It's only a matter of time for anything in the 1940'-1960's era to have a trigger warning. It's incredible that all of us have managed to reach our ages as well balanced, educated and all round lovely people when we were exposed to such distressing things on a daily basis.

All of us? I know plenty of people my age and older who are far from any of those things. In fact I wouldn't call myself well balanced or particularly lovely lol

Galaxy

What do those of us do whose trigger is trigger warnings.

Exactly! All ridiculous. Noddy/ Enid Blyton already has been sanitised, along with Ronald Dahl etc etc!
You could actually have a trigger warning against almost anything really! Woke and stupidity turned rampant!

Wyllow3. We all loved the Faraway Tree books. My mum read them to us and I read them to my own children who are 52, 47 and 40. I loved EB books.

Thank goodness for gender stereotypes! As long as there's room within them for personal choice and discussion, I'm all for old fashioned male and female!

Unfortunately, not all of us. There are some pretty nasty specimens out there.

Oh, of course, all the wonderful Ladybird books, as they were Approved Of.

After Janet and John I can recall few of the books we had at school: it was mainly something I did at home and once I joined a library it was (as well as other things like what Katy Did et al) it was as much Enid Blyton as could get my hands on (parental feeling they were 2nd rate, load of bolleaux) but I adored Stig of the Dump and all the Nesbitt series.

Parents very relieved when I got onto the Swallows and Amazons books as they were approved of ☺️.

Yet my favourite childhood book of all was an Enid Blyton "The Faraway Tree" I believe it's been made into a film?

'Is that your Ayrshire bacon?'
'No I'm just warming my hands'
Silence and gulping sounds as they tried to compose themselves. Me too!

Heidi Vodka, Helena Handcart etc. Plus old Chuffer Dandridge always wanting to borrow a white fiver. Nora Treadwell's 'Tan and Touch up' emporium too. Happy days listening to Terry on the way to work.

I loved Terry's Janet & John stories, they used to crease me up as it drove to work. The best bit though was when Terry & John Marsh started laughing & ended up crying hysterically as no doubt tears of laughter ran down their faces. I have a CD of the stories for those "down" days

NanKate yes I remember the Terry Wogan versions. Absolutely hilarious. I remember some of the funny names of his listeners too like Janet Thatcardigan, Edna Bucket. Ha ha! 😂

It is worth remembering that the stereotypes put around by the likes of the Tate brothers are experiencing a return - they are a modern and much more damaging Janet and John.

It seems to me that a trigger is excessive, but can I ask what they are actually putting on the books? What is this trigger warning in practice that we are discussing?

I mean are we over reacting to what in practice is actually an explanation on the back cover or a foreword explaining that we've moved on from Janet and John?

@mollygo, yes I think it was during the 1970s that the books were phased out in schools.

I loved Enid Blyton books but my teacher was unimpressed with my book list.

I loathed ‘Pilgrim’s Progress’ we had to read at school.

I love all of the beautiful pictures in these books, the Ladybird wildlife ones especially. The artists who worked on them were so very talented.
My heart still misses a beat when I spot a familiar copy in a thrift shop and can't decide between treating myself or leaving it to thrill a smaller reader!

I loved Terry, too.
I used to listen to him before school; we always had the radio on.

Terry Wogan is sadly missed by me and many others.
We used to have a GN member named Wilma Nickersfit(sp)
One of Terry’s fans I think.

There are grown up Janet and John books, i think.
Also the mister men books have adult ones.

I never saw anything like nude Janet and John!!!