"cool kids". Well here idea of cool kids are kids who are anything but cool. They treat other people badly, the make fun of others, they only talk to other cool kids, and that they are rich. I was shocked when i heard this come out of her little mouth. Where could she have learned this? From Nickeloden-her favorite tv station. I sat down and thought about where she could have learned this and then I thought in all of her shows on Nickeloden all the cool kids as they call them are mean and nasty. Like on the show Fairly Odd Parents. The cool kids are all nasty and make fun of others. And of course all of are kids want to be cool and the shows that are meant for kids teach them thats how to be cool..by being nasty and mean. of course I told her that those kids are anything but cool but the fact that she wanted to be like them. I am defiently watching more closely now to what she watches.
2007-08-22 11:32:53 · 7 answers · asked by brisbeachmom 4 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Grade-Schooler
The bratz dolls and they're little videos!!!!! Also , Hannah Montana, Zach and Cody, etc..... Personally, you really can't go wrong with Arthur, Zoom, or anything else on PBS. Pretty much every cartoon now is based on an older audience, and it sucks. I remember watching Fragal Rock,Strawberry Shortcake,Get-Along-Gang, and Carebears. They don't make cartoons for little kids anymore. Even the cartoon movies like Shrek are full of adult jokes. It's crazy that we even have to monitor shows that are rated Y.
2007-08-23 07:33:41 · answer #1 · answered by Candi is Dandy 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah it is weird, but seriously it does happen more than parents think. Boys are curious about other boys because how do they know what is normal. Same with girls. BUT, it is not appropriate! Talking to your son about privacy and about good touch bad touch is always a good conversation to have around that age or sooner. Talk to the neighbors mother, her child is probably just as clueless as a 6 year old or maybe he was abused. Either way talk with her and your child...and don't let them play alone or at all! Reassure him he didn't know better and that telling you was doing a good job! Make sure he knows that is wrong but he didn't know any better and now he does. Ask him to let you know if something like that ever happens again, especially with that 9 year old. Then try to get that kid help! Good luck!
2016-05-20 02:33:47 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I felt the same way, but the more I have thought about it this is what I have came up with. For one my kids know that is mean behavior and not to act like that. And two when kids play it is always dramatic. Have you ever watched a kid get after their dolls. I have seen my kids spank their dolls and they have never been spanked, sometimes playing is just playing it is not a sign of things to come. As long as you have stressed to her that is not real life I think it is OK. My daughter begged to go to day care after "Daddy Day Care" and I had to explain to her that while day care is not a bad thing the show was very unrealistic. It all falls along the same lines. Reinforce to your kids what is right and wrong and what is acceptable behavior and they will be able to distinguish on their own.
2007-08-22 11:44:21 · answer #3 · answered by Miss Coffee 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
That's why I have always hated Nickelodeon and wouldn't let my kids, now 21 and 25, watch much of it. The adults are usually weak and/or mean, too.
I'd skip "reality TV" too because the people on the shows are chosen for their ability to stab each other in the back or make good victims. I wouldn't want my kids to learn either thing.
Even something like "Burn Notice" would be better. Bad people have bad things happen to them; foolish people have problems but can find help. Even the nicest people have flaws. I brought my kids up watching "LA Law" and they learned those things. I even used it to promote premarital chastity, but that's another subject.
2007-08-22 12:16:41 · answer #4 · answered by Sarah C 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Our minds, and our children's minds even more so, on a mechanical level, work much like computers, garbage in - garbage out. That's why I find it very important to control intake. My children were only allowed 2 television programs during their formative years, Sesame Street, and Mr. Rogers. My daughter did much the same with her children. Even now, I watch very little commercial television and filter my music. Can you imagine how different this world might be if everyone did that? Here we're coming around to some of the basic principles in "The Secret" or "The Flute of God" by Paul Twitchell. Yes, it's definitely worth monitoring what goes in our children's minds, and our own.
2007-08-22 18:07:09 · answer #5 · answered by shine_radiantstar 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Have you watched those Nick shows about the 'cool kids who are mean' all the way through to the end of the program? They *ALWAYS* end with the moral that it's better to be nice, with good friends who treat each other well, be true to yourself & your values, than it is to be mean & 'cool' & popular.
And, certainly, you're also teaching your child values when she's not watching television, too, right?
2007-08-22 12:12:06 · answer #6 · answered by Maureen 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Just explain that what she sees on tv is not real and we don't treat people that way.
2007-08-22 11:49:48 · answer #7 · answered by favorite_aunt24 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋