SpongeBob Squarepants

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Should I let my kids watch SpongeBob? I have not watched the cartoon. He just looks…yuck! I have also heard the humor is more for adults. My kids are 6 (2 mentally) and 2.

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My thoughts:
  1. If you don’t like it, no need to let your kids watch it.
  2. As a parent you should always invest time in watching a television program yourself (one episode if you find you don’t like it, several if you don’t find anything objectional in one or two) before letting your children view it. Same goes with watching a movie.
  3. SpongeBob creeps me out as well. I’m sure there’s much better choices of television viewing out there! (or just turn the TV off!)
Debbie
 
Well, we’ve let our kids watch it. We are pretty restrictive about TV viewing. SBSP isn’t the greatest, but it is better than some of the other trash out there.

BTW, SBSP also has a non-violent, fun, and cute video game out. I’d much rather my 9 and 10 year-old boys spent time playing that compared to some of the other more violent games available,
 
Debbie makes some excellent point.

Personally, I do not allow my son to watch most cartoons on Nickelodeon (the channel that produces SpongeBob). I find to characters to be rude, disrespectful, and use language I would prefer my child not hear nor use. i.e there was once an episode where to be popular SpongeBob continued to put down a friend and continually call her stupid and make fun of her. Just not my cup of tea, others might find it humourous but I find it nothing but potty humour.

I would suggest if you want to know if this show is for you watch a few episodes when the children our doing a different activity, that way you can decide yourself.
 
I watch spongebob with my kids, I love it, I think its funny and something the kids and I can enjoy together and laugh like crazy.

If you don’t like it and don’t want your kids to watch it then by all means don’t watch it.
 
I agree with you, Carmetta.

Most of the characters on the Nick cartoons are disrespectful and I find that I spend half my time telling D4 “oh that is not a good way to talk”, etc.

It would be harder with older children, as they are most likely exposed to much worse than SBSP at school and with the neighborhood kids. However, it is my home and I have set the no SpongeBob rule.

Actually most cartoons with the exception of the PBS ones have that smart alecky, disrespectful tone with the kids doing questionable things. (there is always supposed to be a message…they get caught, whatever, but the overall theme is that they had fun while it lasted!)

Down with SpongeBob, LOL!
 
Is it my imagination or does Sponge Bob continuously lose his pants? Maybe it’s just the few episodes I’ve watched. His pants slipped off each time.
 
He epitomizes the utter banality of our culture today. Why would you want to expose your child to something so totally un-uplifting? It might not corrupt his morals but it surely is filling his mind with cultural trash. You know what they say: Garbage in, garbage out.
 
this is a cartoon that would be harmless if the child were 16 or older, and then they would probably be too old to care… i have college age children that thinks its a cute show… I don’t see it as cute, but at the same time, a healthy catechized child would probably have no ill effects… again this child in my mind is half grown plus… i in no way would allow 4yr to 13 year children watch, not so much for the preceived harm as for the need to expose them to a healthier type of programming at those ages…
i guess each individual parent would have to make their own judgement… i just don’t see SBSP as being a major negative influence as much as i see other programs being much more positive… peace… 👍
 
She asked: Should I let my kids watch sponge bob squarepants,
well, it is a pretty silly question, as a parent we make decisions for our children and I don’t need to go to a message board to know if I should or should not let my kids watch this show.

I think its silly and harmless and I even watch it myself and laugh, the next person thinks its just an awful show and how could any person let their kids watch this show?

Pretty soon we are all bickering over this because lets face it, we all have our own opinions and how many of us like to be asked how we could let our children watch such a bad show etc.

I watch all the shows my kids watch before I ever let them watch them. I view them several times and decide if they should be allowed to watch them, so do that and if you yourself don’t like sponge bob or whatever else then tell your kids nope and move on. Lets please not start to lecture over this, make a statement as in yes or no but don’t state it in “why would you ever let your child watcth this” that only fuels fire for us parents who do let our children watch it, its plain that that statement has an underlying meaning as what type of parent are you if you let your kids watch this show.
 
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She asked: Should I let my kids watch sponge bob squarepants,
well, it is a pretty silly question, as a parent we make decisions for our children and I don’t need to go to a message board to know if I should or should not let my kids watch this show.

I think its silly and harmless and I even watch it myself and laugh, the next person thinks its just an awful show and how could any person let their kids watch this show?

Pretty soon we are all bickering over this because lets face it, we all have our own opinions and how many of us like to be asked how we could let our children watch such a bad show etc.

I watch all the shows my kids watch before I ever let them watch them. I view them several times and decide if they should be allowed to watch them, so do that and if you yourself don’t like sponge bob or whatever else then tell your kids nope and move on. Lets please not start to lecture over this, make a statement as in yes or no but don’t state it in “why would you ever let your child watcth this” that only fuels fire for us parents who do let our children watch it, its plain that that statement has an underlying meaning as what type of parent are you if you let your kids watch this show.
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why the heat… i don’t think the question was silly… she had a concern as was wondering what other people think… those other people are trying to help… i personally don’t care for the show but made it clear that it was my opinion and also stated that each parent should make their own decision… i saw no signs of bickering or attitude until this post… chill… were all friends here…
enjoy SBSP… 👍
 
I don’t prohibit my kids from watching it because the times I have watched it I found no problem but it was inane. I will discourage it on that basis but come short of prohibiting it.
 
👍 The show usually has a moral lesson attached to it.

One of the posters mentioned an episode where Bob made fun of one of his friends. If I remember correctly the episode in question, Bob wanted to be a comedian and the only jokes that got laughs were the ones her made about his friend Sandy. Sandy was very hurt by this and he lost her as a friend. Bob found out that it is not good to make jokes at the expense of someone elses feelings. He found he valued his friendship with Sandy more and gave up his popular comedy routine.

I find the show very cute and I love Patrick. He is a sweet soul and an endearing little character. Bob’s work buddy is a grumpy sort who is hard to be friendly with but Bob manages to love him anyway (I can’t think of his name right now). Bob is a very lovable and loving character. For the most part he expresses sympathy and concern and love for his friends. He loves his job. He is a hopeless optimist but he has flaws just like all of us.

I think it is a great show. I watch it with my kids and we get lots of laughs. I think it is very creative and does appeal to adults but I think that is the genius of it.

It is a fun time for us to laugh together. I don’t know maybe a sense of humor runs in my family. We just see the humor in it. :clapping:
 
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: Bob’s work buddy is a grumpy sort who is hard to be friendly with but Bob manages to love him anyway (I can’t think of his name right now).
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The co-worker’s name is Squidworth (not sure of the spelling).
 
There are so many more beautiful and worthy things for children to be doing, or dare I say, even watching?
 
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Poisson:
I don’t prohibit my kids from watching it because the times I have watched it I found no problem but it was inane. I will discourage it on that basis but come short of prohibiting it.
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My brother claims that if he’s in the room when his kids are watching, he can actually feel his brain cells deteriorating.
 
“He epitomizes the utter banality of our culture today. Why would you want to expose your child to something so totally un-uplifting? It might not corrupt his morals but it surely is filling his mind with cultural trash. You know what they say: Garbage in, garbage out.”

Space Ghost,
This is the post that I found to put a bad taste so to say in my mouth, maybe I am being a bit touchy but that is why I wrote what I wrote and should have addressed that poster only, I was not posting directly to you.
I really like sponge bob, my 11,9 & 5 year old watch it almost daily with me and when my 1 year old is old enough he too will watch it if he wants. 👍
 
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