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jediliz
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Sofia is not witchcraft.
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Allegra
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I avoid both Sophia and Pokémon and for the same reason. They are both engineered primarily to market product lines to my kid. Frankly, I don’t want to perish in a sea of plush pikachus and purple princess plastic! I don’t think there’s anything morally wrong with either show. I just don’t want my kid branded at this tender age.
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pensmama87
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My kids don’t watch those shows or any others like them, and even so, they pick up enough from other children that as I try to hurry past the toy department at Target, they can still identify a lot of what they see. It’s crazy!
I know it’s not completely unavoidable because we don’t live in a cave, but that’s one reason I don’t invite it into my home.
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Allegra
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We have a few grandmas and relatives that leap onto character-based marketing campaigns like flies on you-know-what. My sister dressed her daughter up in a Minnie Mouse costume once for Halloween when she was one year old. Based on that, the grannies came up with the idea that a child that couldn’t yet even speak was obsessed with Minnie Mouse. Suddenly, the pink polka-dot deluge began. For her second birthday, we watched in amazement as she opened package after package of Minnie PJs, Minnie dresses, a Minnie board game (for a two year old?
My kids don’t watch those shows or any others like them, and even so, they pick up enough from other children that as I try to hurry past the toy department at Target, they can still identify a lot of what they see. It’s crazy!
I know it’s not completely unavoidable because we don’t live in a cave, but that’s one reason I don’t invite it into my home.
), Minnie fashion plates and figurines, a Minnie swimming suit (in Dec), and no less than SIX plush Minnie Mouses. My wry elderly aunt grumbled, “I sure hope the next one she opens has some mousetraps in it!”Every time she expresses interest in any character, she gets drowned in the appropriate merchandise befitting a pint-sized fanatic. When they ask me what character my kid likes, I tell the she likes Sid the Science Kid and Thomas the Train. I defy them to find a Thomas the Train dress or little girl’s swimsuit!
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Eliza10
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Thank you so much for all these replies. Many have validated what I already was thinking - that I do not like the marketing and addictive aspects. And also I don’t like the art - but for those that’s do I am not being critical - its just that I am an artist who loves and appreciates beautiful art and I don’t think anime is beautiful. I appreciate the list here (by E_7) of which anime to avoid, in case that becomes an issue.
Because there is so much else to watch available on Netflix, I am just going to limit the stuff that she can watch to things like nature shows (I have put a lot of them on “My List” including the silly “Cutest Animals” etc. and a few series she watches like Kratt brothers, maybe Reading Rainbow if its still on - I am going to make a list of “approved”. This is particularly for times like in the morning -she gets up very early, and if I have an errand or a nap while she is here. My husband is great with her but he is not as picky about shows as me. So I will have an “approved” list she can choose from. I am certainly not going to police or criticize what she watches elsewhere, but I want to take responsibility for what’s on in our home. Nothing that I would be ashamed to explain to God someday…
I need to listen to the “I don’t like” inside me and just act on it, I think. Its just me listening to my conscience, not me making a broad statement that certain shows are “wrong” for people in general.
The art is “bad” in my own opinion but I sort of wondered about symbols, since there seems to be so many. However, I guess it does not matter since I am nixing it anyway. There are many symbols that I avoid, like, peace symbol, owls, (notice how poplar they are for kids now) and the sign of horns that our politicians and famous celebrities make sure they are flashing for the camera. But that’s another subject. We all need holy water in our homes this days…
Because there is so much else to watch available on Netflix, I am just going to limit the stuff that she can watch to things like nature shows (I have put a lot of them on “My List” including the silly “Cutest Animals” etc. and a few series she watches like Kratt brothers, maybe Reading Rainbow if its still on - I am going to make a list of “approved”. This is particularly for times like in the morning -she gets up very early, and if I have an errand or a nap while she is here. My husband is great with her but he is not as picky about shows as me. So I will have an “approved” list she can choose from. I am certainly not going to police or criticize what she watches elsewhere, but I want to take responsibility for what’s on in our home. Nothing that I would be ashamed to explain to God someday…
I need to listen to the “I don’t like” inside me and just act on it, I think. Its just me listening to my conscience, not me making a broad statement that certain shows are “wrong” for people in general.
The art is “bad” in my own opinion but I sort of wondered about symbols, since there seems to be so many. However, I guess it does not matter since I am nixing it anyway. There are many symbols that I avoid, like, peace symbol, owls, (notice how poplar they are for kids now) and the sign of horns that our politicians and famous celebrities make sure they are flashing for the camera. But that’s another subject. We all need holy water in our homes this days…
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AClaire11
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…what’s wrong with owls?
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Allegra
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What the heck is wrong with owls? They’re beautiful animals and they eat up the rodents!
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mommy_k
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I don’t know if this is the reason the op avoids them, but in Italian culture they are a symbol of death.
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