{"id":10276,"date":"2015-01-09T14:46:07","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T22:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/?p=10276"},"modified":"2015-01-09T14:46:07","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T22:46:07","slug":"toxic-television-pt-2-the-shows-we-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/toxic-television-pt-2-the-shows-we-hate\/","title":{"rendered":"Toxic Television- Pt. 2; The Shows We Hate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Per my previous post HERE<\/a>, I\u2019m starting my review list off with the programs that are popular in the ages 5 and under crowd that we don\u2019t care for. \u00a0I thought it might be helpful for some and at least spark conversation for others.<\/p>\n

1- Caillou- Shelved for: whining, tantrums, issues with sister, unclear consequences<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s an okay\u00a0show, I guess and I know a lot of moms who like it because it does feature lessons about behavior as little baldy struggles with similar issues most all toddlers do, but his attitude and whiny voice is NOT something I want to have emulated in my house. \u00a0My kids are too little to learn the lesson, so all they learn is the attitude and tone of voice being presented and I\u2019m not a fan. \u00a0The first time I heard Liam say \u201cbut moooommmyyy\u2026.\u201d in that whiny, Caillou voice, I said \u201cno thank you\u201d and turned it off for good. \u00a0The point of the show is to show toddlers that their feelings are valid and to help them work through those issues as they see Caillou do it on TV. \u00a0Which, in theory, is a great idea. Unfortunately the child between ages 18 months through 4 years is unlikely to get that- all they are going to get out of it, is seeing a child whining and yelling, throwing and hitting and they are going to do the same thing. Save your nerves and your child the tears and just avoid this show, at LEAST until they are old enough to comprehend what is actually being taught. Oh, and one last thing- I also don\u2019t like that they call his meltdowns \u201ctemper tantrums\u201d. \u00a0It drives me INSANE when people just assume that because a child is upset and vocal about being upset that they are throwing some kind of belligerent, angry fit for attention and manipulation. \u00a0This show perpetuates that nearly always incorrect assumption about child behavior and I don\u2019t like it.<\/p>\n

2- Tom & Jerry (and all the side\/lesser cartoons that go with them) \u2013 Never even put these on the shelf to begin with.<\/p>\n

Why? \u00a0Because they are horrible. \u00a0They are full of hitting, fighting, animal cruelty, racism, sexism, smoking, drinking, bashing \u201cchild\u201d mice in the head, hitting cats on the head with hammers, eating birds who are friends, pulling giant knives out from the kitchen and chasing after one another with them, poisoning, pushing, running over characters with cars, trucks, steam-rollers\u2026 basically every one of the \u201c10,000 ways to die\u201d are showcased on this show and all while the characters are laughing and thinking it\u2019s hilarious to watch the other be in physical pain. \u00a0So no. \u00a0Just no. \u00a0This show is a breeding ground for apathy, bullying, dangerous behavior with ZERO consequence and I\u2019m not having it.<\/p>\n

3- Various\u00a0Mickey Mouse cartoons and holiday specials- Shelved for Violence, yelling, hitting and bullying.<\/p>\n

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Whaaaaaaaattt????? \u00a0You mean the all powerful mouse did something I don\u2019t approve of?? GASP! Yes, it\u2019s true. \u00a0There are Disney cartoons I don\u2019t let my kids watch. \u00a0More than a few, actually\u2026 but right now, I am talking specifically about the Mickey Mouse cartoons and specials, the ones with the \u201cfab 5\u2033 gang, Mickey, Minnie, Pluto, Goofy and Donald, alongside Daisy, Chip & Dale, and their buddies, the ones from basically 1995 and back. \u00a0Why? \u00a0Because they\u2019re violent. Violent in the same way the Looney Toons are, just not *quite* as bad. \u00a0What\u2019s worse in my opinion, is when they\u2019re not being violent, they\u2019re mean to each other or getting into dangerous situations.<\/p>\n

Now, anyone who watches Mickey Mouse Clubhouse knows that \u201cPete the cat\u201d is a bad guy, but did you know that back in the not-so-long-ago day, he was a REALLY, REALLY BAD GUY, like, way worse\u00a0than he is now? \u00a0In fact, they\u2019ve watered down his badness substantially for the new generation but as recent as 10 years ago, Pete was not the guy who is sorta bad but mostly redeemable. \u00a0In the 2004 release of \u201cMickey and the Three Mousketeers\u201d, Liam was clearly confused about Pete and why he was so scary. \u00a0I think it really disappointed him and freaked him out when he saw Pete strangle, lock up and then attempt to drown Mickey Mouse. \u00a0He kept asking me \u201cwhy is Pete doing that?\u201d or saying things like, \u201cPete is so scary and mean!\u201d I ended up just turning it off because it disturbed him so much. \u00a0So, we\u2019re not watching that one anymore, nor any of the others that are blatantly violent and displaying super mean behavior. \u00a0Even a few of my favorites got shelved because Chip and Dale are really mean to Donald Duck and Pluto in the Christmas episode and I really just don\u2019t think I want to deal with anyone throwing Christmas decorations at their siblings or punching each other in the nose because it\u2019s funny when the chipmunks do it.<\/p>\n

In general, we have always known that Donald had a temper problem, that was always the point behind his cartoons and the lessons learned were because of his inability to control himself, but in the mean time, a kid watches him hit, yell, throw things, scream and otherwise be a horrible and horrifying person to his friends and everyone just shrugs it off because, \u201coh, well, that\u2019s just Donald\u201d.<\/p>\n

Bullying is another big issue in these older shows. \u00a0Characters call one another stupid, make fun of their friends, call them idiots, and it\u2019s all okay because they\u2019re friends. \u00a0Um\u2026 no. \u00a0Not a lesson I want them to learn in our house. \u00a0Just because you\u2019re my \u201cfriend\u201d does not mean it\u2019s okay to call me an idiot or make fun of me. \u00a0That\u2019s not how friendship works.<\/p>\n

4- Max and Ruby- Shelved for sibling rivalry, whining and rewards for poor behavior.<\/p>\n

I have never liked this show. Mean, snotty older sister with a REEEEAAAAALLLLLY annoying voice, bosses around her baby brother, huffs and puffs and throws fits about how he wants to be in her space all the time or get into her things or play with her when she wants to play with her friends or by herself, ALONE. \u00a0I gave up on trying to like it when she whined at him for the (yes, I counted) 26th time, \u201cMaaaaaAAAAAAaaaaaAAAAaaxxxxxxxxxxxxx\u2026. Nooooooo, that\u2019s MIIINNE\u201d. UGH *shutter* I swear I was about to slap me some bunny. \u00a0Also, apparently they have no parents because you NEVER see them anywhere to correct her bossy attitude. The moral of each episode seems to be; be a selfish brat to your baby brother and you\u2019ll STILL get presents at the end of every day anyway because even if you are a jerk, your family loves you and is just trying to do nice things for you because you\u2019re a princess.
\nThere is nothing good about this show except the cool 30\u2019s style music. \u00a0No all the way.<\/p>\n

5- Mike the Knight- Shelved for: bad attitude, being disrespectful and not following directions<\/p>\n

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Now, this disappointed me. I was SO excited to see a toddler\/learning show about a Medieval knight! There are dragons, his sister is a sorceress, there\u2019s trolls and fairies and vikings\u2026 it\u2019s adorable! Except for the fact that Mike is a selfish, little jerk. The show\u2019s plot typically goes like this; He is asked to do some sort of task which he typically ignores or does in a short-cut way, while complaining, whining and being mean to his friends, conning them into doing his work for him and saying it\u2019s \u201cbecause I\u2019m a knight and knights don\u2019t do THAT kind of work!\u201d His selfless friends love him, so they do what he asks without question because they want to help make him happy. Which, Mike takes full advantage of. Eventually, (usually not until the last 10 minutes of the show) Mike realizes that he\u2019s been a jerk and he jumps to fix it, which he does easily with no problems, no one gets angry with him for having been such a brat the entire time and he eventually gets what he wanted anyway with about 2 minutes dedicated to the lesson of kindness and learning from it. The show does have a lesson each time- it\u2019s just not clear enough and his bad attitude is prevalent throughout too much of the show for my taste. It\u2019s so much that a child within toddler age will simply learn that behavior, but not the lesson itself. It\u2019s a show for an older child who can actually see that the behavior is NOT to be emulated, because there were consequences. This is a show that maybe we will try when Liam is closer to 4-5 years old, when he has a better understanding of right and wrong behavior, but for now- we have to shelve Mike and his awesome dragon friends. (edit- Liam actually IS 4 years old now and the last time we watched Mike, he understood that Mike was being mean, so we may bring this one back around again.)<\/p>\n

6- Henry Hugglemonster: shelved for: screaming or, rather- \u201croaring\u201d inappropriately<\/p>\n

Let me just start this one by saying how much I LOVE this show. \u00a0It\u2019s all about family and inclusion and love- connection, compassion and relying upon one another. They baby-wear their infant brother, Igor, and imagination and talent is encouraged in each child by their monster elders, each in different ways. \u00a0Henry speaks directly to the audience and really brings in a sense of identifying with, and speaking directly to the children watching him. \u00a0He relates to his audience and his emotions are clearly identified. \u00a0They learn great lessons about asking for help and telling the truth and doing the right thing. \u00a0Unfortunately, there is a lot of roaring in this show and some of the concepts are a little mature for toddlers, so they go right over his head. \u00a0Liam now roars when he\u2019s both happy and mad because Henry roars when he is happy and mad. \u00a0Roaring for a 2 year old is a lot more like screaming at the top of your lungs and running around the house like a crazy person than it is anything productive and it just doesn\u2019t stop. \u00a0I feel bad scolding him for doing it, because it\u2019s my own fault for showing him a character who does it. \u00a0The only way I could find to make it stop was by removing the stimulus that encourages it. \u00a0For now, we are shelving this one\u00a0until he can better grasp that it isn\u2019t actually a good thing to yell and scream at the top of your lungs. Monsters roar- little boys must use words. Once we learn this lesson, my hope is that we can bring this fantastic show\u00a0back into the picture for all its great lessons to be learned.\u00a0Note- Since I first wrote these, we have re-introduced Henry back into our lives and we\u2019ve learned that we can watch it, but only at certain times of the day. \u00a0Roaring is for playtime, so we can watch Henry during or before but not during or JUST before quiet time. \u00a0We also rarely watch it in mixed company (anyone outside our little family) because the roaring seems to increase when guests are here. \u00a0He is also much better now at accepting\u00a0the direction that just because Henry roars does not mean he should. \u00a0I still hold to my belief that it really is for older toddlers, 3-5 years, not so much for younger 2-3 years, ones who don\u2019t understand the appropriateness of certain behaviors. \u00a0As always, you make the call. \u00a0Ultimately, we do love this show.<\/em><\/p>\n

7- Ni Hao Kai Lan- Awesome show, Shelved for: whining and yelling<\/p>\n

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Ni Hao Kai Lan teaches Chinese words, Chinese culture, they teach kindness, team work, value of friendship and acceptance. They work through emotions and help kids identify and focus on their feelings in a positive way. \u00a0This show is targeted at a little older age range than my kids, probably ages 4-6. There is a lot of yelling, some happy yelling, some angry yelling, some venting yelling and as a young toddler, all my child sees is yelling and screaming and he thinks that\u2019s a great idea. \u00a0He sees that the characters react to their frustrations through screaming (as they learn a lesson about sharing feelings and expressing their frustration so they can work through an issue) and all he sees is, anger = yelling, excited = roaring, can\u2019t have your way = screaming. So, naturally, he followed in suit. The other day, I asked him to stop running in the house. His reaction was to \u201croar\u201d at me at the top of his lungs, clench his fists and say, \u201cI\u2019m mad!\u201d This was exactly, right down to the foot-stomp and furrowed eyebrows- what happened on the show. \u00a0He didn\u2019t know how to do that or know TO do that until he watched this episode. \u00a0Now, on the one hand, I\u2019m happy that he wants to start expressing how he feels so we can begin to talk about it, but I know he\u2019s only doing it because he watched the little tiger and the monkey in Kai Lan do it. \u00a0This wasn\u2019t an issue at first, but the more it happened, the less I wanted to watch it, so we\u2019re shelving this one for a while.<\/p>\n

8-Oscar\u2019s Oasis and Rabbid Invasion- Shelved for: Violence, laughing at other\u2019s pain<\/p>\n

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These aren\u2019t supposed to be \u201cfor toddlers\u201d, but many people allow it because they are simple, lots of action and no words, so it holds baby\u2019s attention and toddlers think they\u2019re funny. \u00a0I\u2019m roping these two together because they\u2019re basically the exact same thing. \u00a0Honestly, there really isn\u2019t much to say about either of them, other than the fact that the concept is\u00a0not much different from Loony Tunes in the \u201cviolence and hurting friends is fun\u201d department. \u00a0There are no words, just actions and most of them display characters in peril either due to their own poor decisions or the fact that they have jerks for friends. \u00a0I thought it might be cute for Liam to watch this before I knew what it was like. \u00a0It only took one episode to have him laughing at people when they got hurt because the little bunnies do it. \u00a0So no, not a good show for us.<\/p>\n

9- Chuck and Friends \u2013 Shelved for: Contradicting adults, bad attitude and being mean to friends<\/p>\n

Chuck and Friends is pre-school show about a land of trucks and cars, similar to the Disney \u201cCars\u201d world. \u00a0Chuck is a child dump truck who, along with his friends, learns lessons about what is right and wrong. \u00a0Eventually, he always does right, but not until he spends the majority of the episode doing the wrong thing. \u00a0Too much wrong and not enough right. \u00a0The cars are really cute, though. \u00a0I suspect this will be better in a few years when we can have conversations about consequences.<\/p>\n

10- Loony Toons \u2013 Including Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain and any version of Bugs and the gang, old and new-Shelved for: Violence, dangerous situations, attitude, name calling and sneakiness<\/p>\n

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Okay, so it\u2019s not much of a stretch to consider that I\u2019d ban Loony Tunes like Bugs Bunny, Daffy and Elmer, the Roadrunner & Wiley Coyote, Tiny Toons\u00a0and many others. \u00a0Some may say, \u201cwell, these were never intended to be toddler cartoons anyway!\u201d And those people would be absolutely correct- HOWEVER\u2026 there are many, many people who allow their toddlers and pre-schoolers to watch these shows because, well, we grew up on them so they\u2019re fine, right? Of course, right after we pile them all into the back of the pick-up and drive them to grandma\u2019s house, feeding them Karo\u2019s syrup for a tummy ache. \u00a0All of these cartoons are extremely violent with the hitting, shooting people in the face, cooking friends in giant stew pots, dropping pianos and anvils on their heads, and the general meanness that can be taken completely out of context by a child. \u00a0I keep hearing this crap about \u201cbut these are classics! \u00a0Every child needs to know who they are!\u201d \u2026No, actually they don\u2019t and certainly not at toddler age. \u00a0Does any parent really need to deal with the idea that a child might harm his or her sibling or family pet because they saw Bugs and Elmer do it and everyone was okay? \u00a0Would you want to risk it? \u00a0I\u2019m not willing to, so we don\u2019t watch them. Period. \u00a0Unfortunately, that means I also have to hold off on two of my personal favorites; Animaniacs and Pinky and the Brain. \u00a0I actually did let them watch both of these shows for a while, thinking\u2026 I let my niece and nephew watch them when they were 3-4 years old, it can\u2019t be that bad\u2026 but yeah, it kind of is. LOL \u00a0I ignored it until I started seeing my little Yakko and Dot reenacting the show\u2019s more colorful scenes like chasing and hitting people on the head as you run, little attitude comments that sound just like Dot, yelling just like Katie Kaboom and the bad attitude of Slappy Squirrel\u2026 yeah, really not a great idea. \u00a0Pinky and the Brain is surprisingly tame \u00a0and we can actually watch that one from time to time because there usually is no outright violence to be emulated. \u00a0The problem with that show, is the bullying. \u00a0I didn\u2019t remember that from when I was younger, but Brain is CONSTANTLY belittling and bullying Pinky. \u00a0It\u2019s actually really sad and definitely plays right into the \u201cbully culture\u201d concept where one person is constantly picking on the other and making fun of them, even while they call them a friend. \u00a0 But that\u2019s a concept still far beyond them, so at this point, the worst to come from watching that show so far, has been Liam adding the words, \u201cZoink!\u201d and \u201cNarf!\u201d to his vocabulary.<\/p>\n

11- Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs- Shelved for Lying, general disobedience, some attitude<\/p>\n

Liam recently got into dinosaurs in a big way thanks to Dino Dan, so I\u2019ve been seeking out programming specifically having to do with them in some capacity. \u00a0This seemed like the perfect solution! \u00a0Unfortunately, I\u2019m not a fan. \u00a0I think it could have been great, and may still be later on but I doubt by the time he is mature enough to actually learn the lesson being taught, he will want to watch the show. \u00a0It\u2019s a toddler program with pre-school (and sometimes older) lessons being taught. \u00a0The one that sealed the deal for me, was that Harry needed to return a book to the library and he didn\u2019t want to give it back because he loved it so much. \u00a0So, he escaped into his \u201cdino world\u201d to HIDE THE BOOK (basically stealing it) so he wouldn\u2019t have to give it back. \u00a0Of course, the lesson was, you can\u2019t do that, it\u2019s not nice and other children will miss out on the book because you\u2019re being selfish. \u00a0At NO POINT was it every mentioned that it\u2019s NOT OKAY TO STEAL SOMETHING. \u00a0Every episode is all about how, if he doesn\u2019t like something, he runs away to his dino world to hide from whatever it is he\u2019s doing. Every lesson is focused on facing your problems and moving toward solutions, but those lessons are lost on a child under 5 because they are more sophisticated concepts that the average toddler\/pre-school brain hasn\u2019t yet fully grasped. \u00a0What a child will see is \u2013 uncomfortable situation = run away. \u00a0Why Harry couldn\u2019t just go into his dino world to have great imagination games and have fun learning about the dinosaurs and what they\u2019re like is beyond me. They had to add in this bad behavior issue thinking it\u2019s a good lesson to learn, but not connecting the age ranges of their target audience and what that age range is actually capable of grasping vs. simply repeating. \u00a0It\u2019s too bad, it would have been a good one.<\/p>\n

12- Horrid Henry- Shelved for\u2026 well, being horrid. \u00a0Attitude, yelling, bullying, hitting, selfishness, bad behavior.<\/p>\n

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Horrid Henry is NOT a toddler show. \u00a0It\u2019s not marketed as a toddler show and should never be mistaken for one, but I know several mamas who allow their toddlers to watch it, which is why it\u2019s on the list. \u00a0Horrid Henry is a UK show about a really awful child who has parents who yell at him and there\u2019s nothing but bad attitude throughout the entire show and beyond that, he makes really ugly, mean faces and bullies people and is basically just a horrible person. \u00a0Honestly I have no idea if there\u2019s a lesson in there eventually, because I can\u2019t get more than a few minutes in before it makes my skin crawl. \u00a0So this is a no. \u00a0A no now, and a no later.<\/p>\n

So that\u2019s my current list of shows we don\u2019t watch. \u00a0Because I started writing it when Liam was 2, things have changed a bit, as seen in the edits I\u2019ve made. \u00a0Overall, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s too long in the grand scheme and I think most people can agree with me on these issues and my logic for my filters. \u00a0Many parents who disagree simply don\u2019t agree that those influences will create problems for their kids. Which is totally fine if that\u2019s true- rock on man, more power to ya, \u00a0but think about it next time you have to scold your youngling for hitting someone, teasing someone, whining, yelling, punching, being sarcastic or rude\u2026 consider what you allowed them to watch that mirrored that same behavior and ask yourself if it was worth it.<\/p>\n

If we could avoid the situation by NOT presenting the behavior to them in the first place, I can\u2019t see that as anything but a win for everyone.<\/p>\n

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Per my previous post HERE, I\u2019m starting my review list off with the programs that are popular in the ages 5 and under crowd that we don\u2019t care for. \u00a0I thought it might be helpful for some and at least spark conversation for others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-and-reviews","category-lessons-from-the-mother-ship"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1opIU-2FK","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10323,"url":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/toxic-television-pt-3-the-shows-we-love\/","url_meta":{"origin":10276,"position":0},"title":"Toxic Television- Pt. 3; The Shows We Love","author":"Janelle","date":"January 9, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Okay, you\u2019ve already heard my rant on toddler programming, and you\u2019ve already read about what shows we don\u2019t like. 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