Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I have heard many parents of young children say that they are banning Cocomelon from their kids because they have read or heard that exposing their child to it is like exposing your child to crack.
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Everytime a kids show comes along, there are always those that cannot wait to bring it down!
My kids are in their 30’s now but when they were toddlers I got so much flack for allowing them to watch Teletubbies.
Jerry Faldwell at the time was warning parents that exposing your children to this show could make them “gay” since the purple Teletubby “Tinky Winky” was a gay color (purple), had a gay shape on his head (a triangle?) and was a boy but carried a purse.
Later on my kids were into Harry Potter which experts claimed was bad for kids since it exposed them to witchcraft.
Cocomelon is just like these shows from the past, they are popular so of course someone wants to bring it down.
The content is educational, the songs are catchy ➕ fun and the nuclear family unit is all about love.
And I find it touching how the show’s creators have named some of the characters after the three Watts children who were murdered in 2018.
I'm not OP but there is a big difference in how shows are produced now with the constant screen cuts. That style of show has been flagged for attention/brain development concerns for years. This obviously isn't scientific, but I just randomly picked a Teletubbies episode and it was 0:25 to the first cut scene and then an another 0:20 to the next. I picked a random cocomelon and the had 6 screen cuts in the first 0:25 of the song.
I personally think it's fine, in moderation, like everything but if my kid was having focus/attention issues I would cut that type of media out.
I don’t think that the Teletubbies program was criticized in its day for the actual program’s dynamic.
At the time, the focal concern was that the show was subliminally exposing children to a homosexual character which many believed at the time would or could make children emulate them.
Every generation needs a scapegoat for what is bad and detrimental for the youth.
There actually was a time when parents were also cautioned about exposing their children to Harry Potter books/movies due to witchcraft & wizard motifs.
And if I am to go way back, when Rock ‘n Roll first came on the scene, parents were told to keep their kids far away from its bad influence.
Cocomelon will be okay.
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