My daughter decides what we watch..
True story, honestly im excited to hear the new season of Futurama is great!
True story, honestly im excited to hear the new season of Futurama is great!
Paw Patrol is copaganda for toddlers. Learning bad words from Bender is less harmful than getting indoctrinated by it.
Got a call from the school when my oldest was in kindergarten... "Your child just yelled 'bite my shiny metal ass' in the library." I was proud and embarrassed at the same time.
Bluey sets an unrealistic expectation for how much child chef food a parent will eat.
FTFY. I can't keep up trying to be Bandit
Just remember, the show is 7 minutes long. These are highlights of the day, where they spend less than ten minutes focusing on play and pretend.
But yeah, that dog is amazing.
And if I have to pretend one more time that my hand is Shaun the emu, I think I may lose my mind.
Fight me.
Can we do a Blueyathon instead, so we can see all the foreshadowing they've secretly been doing all along? Take the Winton foreshadowing of his dad bumping into the mom of one of the other kids at a store... ::: spoiler spoiler some two episodes before it's even revealed that they like each other, and then even later THEY are the people that sell their house (with a pool) that the poodles end up buying instead of Bluey's house, because Winton's dad moves out of his house to live with the other mom! :::
It's such a good show.
I've been trying to carefully navigate this. Got her into Totoro when she was really young, like 20 months. Then a little after 2 we started watching Spirited Away. She loves them. I can't always control what she watches but I'm gonna do my best to imbue some of my tastes into her.
Try treating it as family time. Like i know they say minimize screen time but cuddles and time with family makes good memories.
We have "family film nights". We all have dinner together, then get out some beanbags, on the floor. We then all watch a film together, cuddled up on the beanbags.
The films are ones our daughter hasn't seen, and can often push her boundaries. E.g. we watched "Monsters Inc" together. She was a little bit scared, but with mummy and daddy there, she loved it.
It's definitely one for building memories together. We are too often distracted, even when present. Having dedicated family time makes a huge difference.
Oh, and she also doesn't watch much paw patrol, even when around friends. Apparently "Daddy doesn't like it" is quite enough to put her off it. A classic "respect over fear" situational win for me.
On a side note. The screen time correlation goes away, when you correct for the child's parenting and lifestyle situation. It's not "screens are bad" but that kids in worse situations watch more TV, etc. The causation is backwards.
The main characters' age in Ghibli movies give you an idea of the minimum age of the audience... So Ponyo and Totoro are for young kids, Spirited Away isn't... Grave of the fireflies is the exception, no one is ever ready for that...
I watched Grave of the Fireflies and couldn't shake the feeling of "half the problems he's facing are his own fault, and his little sister is being dragged down with him"
Iirc it's based on a real experience, so that's probably true. I haven't seen it in forever, nor do I intend to, so I say probably because I don't recall all the nuance.
I tried the same thing. I had my daughter watch Spirited Away when she was maybe 6. It traumatized her. She was scared of us turning into pigs and being left alone.
Paw Patrol is a very fascist show meant to teach fascist ideology to kids, just so you know: https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/22/health/thomas-tank-engine-paw-patrol-fascist-cartoon-strauss/index.html
This isn't a criticism, it's easy to for stuff like this to slip past parents' radar. But I'd strongly recommend switching to a different show.
I've went through the article and it's ckickbait at best, garbage at worst.
Regarding paw patrol, the criticism is that the child is a white male and a mother that complains that in a two pup mission on an episode she saw the two pups were male.
Are you really telling me that is the boy was Japanese then the show wouldn't be fascist? Or a single chromosome would make it ok?
There's real fascism running around but somehow that's overlooked in favor of calling fascism to everything else.
The reality is that the gender and race of the main character has little to do with it being fascist. What makes it fascist is that it depicts the cop as the most important and trustworthy member of the team.
A lot of fascism exists in greed and indifference and with only a little bit of ideology. I am pretty liberal in my view, but I think there are a lot of problems in the way people on the left look at things. Yeah, the GOP is racist, but its also a hive mind and easily guided with the right hand. But although the GOP primaries where basically pointless the two loudest voices where the son of an immigrant and a woman.
All they had to do was agree that immigrants are bad and the status que is good.
The reality is that the gender and race of the main character has little to do with it being fascist. What makes it fascist is that it depicts the cop as the most important and trustworthy member of the team.
Then this article disagrees with you because it only focused on the race and gender. I'm not versed enough in paw patrol to know if it's the most important member of the team, most of the time they have to solve everything through collaboration of each expertise.
Everything else you said it's not relevant to this.
Not sure if it is fascist. It is certainly neoliberal propaganda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnwBXQ9OXwA
Can confirm. I used to watch Justified, now I spend my TV time trying to subtly convince my toddler that Chase isn't the best Paw Patrol pup.
Ours has decided that she's no longer a princess, she's now Skye. I think mommy was Everest and I'm Rubble. It's funny, because I always associated myself with Rubble the most, particularly after watching the Mighty Movie where Rubble goes "what, did you think I was going to watch the space thingy of a lifetime without snacks?" (exact wording may differ; I have to watch it in Estonian)
So what Have Deadpool 3. You guys been Futurama. Watching? AEW. XMen 97. Justified. Paw patrol.