In America, when a child is born, for fun they usually have toys to play with and loving siblings to interact with. Around the age of six months, children start watching cartoons and as they get older the watching of cartoons get addicting.
When you think of cartoons, you think of colorful innocent little characters running around, but now in America cartoons have evolved into more violent and inappropriate things.
The marketing is targeted toward the children to cause them to want to view the cartoons on a regular basis, but the subliminal messaging is for the adults. It’s sad to see kids addicted to cartoons because society says that the children who watch too much cartoons end up having mental and emotional problems. They also end up with some brain and eye injuries.
Since a child’s mind is like a sponge, it absorbs everything it sees and hears. With all the violence and bad language in the cartoons, it might result in teenage violence in the future. Studies show that boys are more effected by violent cartoons than girls meaning that when a boy watches a violent cartoon he is more likely to imitate it.
A typical child watches about 30 hours of television each week. Some of the effects may be that children are less interested in school. Now in America the violence isn’t just in the cartoons, it’s also now in movies and video games which is also exposing and influencing extreme violence.
Duaa • Jun 29, 2011 at 8:23 pm
Me too I agree with Ryan. More over, there is a lot of cartons and TV shows are made especially for children and the parents are ignoring them and they don’t support them, I mean the programs, So they disappear after while because of lack of support and limited demand to watch them. Furthermore, some parents think that some of this programs are silly and worthless so they interdict there children from watching them.
My dad did this when I was child no (Barney or Sesame Street). Me and my brothers had to read advance book all the time.
Ashley Mathis • Mar 2, 2011 at 9:15 am
I agree with Ryan on the subject of kids watching adult shows. Parent’s should put restrictions on tv channels. People have those and the parent can still watch that channel later. Television doesnt really ruin your brain its a myth. What ruins your brain is not studying or keeping your knowledge and relying on television for imagination.
Ryan Stephenson • Feb 9, 2011 at 9:18 am
Well, if parents have such a problem with cartoons, then maybe they shouldn’t let their children watch them? Shows like South Park and Family Guy hhave TV-MA and TV-14 ratings respectively – they’re meant for adults! Instead of complaining about the shows themselves, why not take a moment and act as a parent and stop your kids from watching them. If they’re that determined to watch them that you can’t stop them, then there’s really nothing you can do.
Same with video games. Kids today play Call of Duty and Halo, which have M ratings, and it’s screwing them up. They’re fun games, but there’s made for adults who are capable of knowing reality from fiction, something children don’t develop until later in life.
So before blaming the shows, movies and games, try blaming the parents who let their kids watch and play them.