Screen time is a good thing for grandparents too | Children’s TV

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Lessons from children’s TV | Travelling frogs | Northern mishearing | Whippet love | Paper plaint

Thu 16 Mar 2023 13.23 EDT

Re your article (As parents, can we all agree that a bit of screen time for children is actually a good thing?, 1 March), screen time is a good thing for grandparents too – as an adult learning tool. I now know much that I never knew before from watching, with my granddaughter, gems such as Ada Twist, Scientist (Netflix) and Maddie’s Do You Know (CBeebies).
Anthony Lawton
Church Langton, Leicestershire

• I wanted to report that the frogspawn appeared on Thursday morning – the latest date in the last 16 years (Letters, 1 March). Jocelyn Hanson asked how the frogs travelled to our new home (Letters, 10 March). Nine of them came in a plastic box, and lived in a cement-mixing bath for several months while their new home was built.
Judith Abbs
London

• A few weeks ago, I was startled to hear the ever courteous BBC presenter Mishal Hussain say, while talking about the teachers’ strike, that non-striking staff “can’t be arsed to cover for their colleagues”. A northerner, I had been momentarily misled by the long “a” in asked (Letters, 10 March).
Hazel Pennington
Bath

• Why does Ian Winstanley want to dispel the image of the gentle, graceful whippet (Letters, 15 March)? We have two beauties, Woody and Sharkey.
Pete Lawson
Sunderland

• The Guardian didn’t get to Penistone either last Friday (Letters, 13 March), but disappointingly the Daily Mail did. Another example of rightwing bias?
Richard Webb
Penistone, South Yorkshire

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