Disney Channel shows- do you let your kids watch?

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Anonymous wrote:I wish I'd known and put a stop to it before she'd seen them. I wish that there were better live action alternatives for kids who don't like cartoons.

National Geographic Channel, HGTV, Food Network, Animal Planet - all these are popular in our house.

I should have been more specific. She likes fiction, but prefers actors to cartoons (though she likes Phineas and Ferb).

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Anonymous wrote:The only Disney show they watch is Phineas and Ferb. My oldest is 6. My sister already warned me about the other Disney shows. She cancelled cable after catching her 8 year old watching iCarly. Now they only Netflick.

+1, almost exactly. My feeling is the all the "live action" shows are terrible and make the girls especially look like idiots. Even Phineas and Ferb is only left to very small doses, so Netflix is the way to go!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wish I'd known and put a stop to it before she'd seen them. I wish that there were better live action alternatives for kids who don't like cartoons.

National Geographic Channel, HGTV, Food Network, Animal Planet - all these are popular in our house.

I should have been more specific. She likes fiction, but prefers actors to cartoons (though she likes Phineas and Ferb).

I love phineas and ferb

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wish I'd known and put a stop to it before she'd seen them. I wish that there were better live action alternatives for kids who don't like cartoons.

National Geographic Channel, HGTV, Food Network, Animal Planet - all these are popular in our house.

I should have been more specific. She likes fiction, but prefers actors to cartoons (though she likes Phineas and Ferb).

I love phineas and ferb

Me, too! I think it is witty and warm-hearted. And tuneful!

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We got rid of cable to get away from Disney shows and the constant begging for them. My 10 and 8 year olds are allowed to watch Phineas and Ferb on Netflix. Disney shows are sarcastic, insincere, unkind, stupid. My 10 year old DD was studying the girls on these shows for clues on what it means to be a preteen or teen and it was a terrible example. Bye bye Disney.

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YUK. No. Never. Got rid of cable because TV is complete garbage. We stream movies, get videos, etc. Those shows are brain dead; I cannot stand the obnoxious, fake, BS crap. HURL.

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So how does getting rid of cable but keeping netflx help? All of the shows are on netflx.

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I love me some Good Luck Charlie. I enjoy how the family members actually seem to love each other.

Also, the first season of Lab Rats was a lot better than the other Disney shows.

I'm so sick of pointing out to my daughters how overdone (and trashy) all of the girls on Jessie and Shake It Up look with their spray tans, falls eyelashes and shellacked hair.

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Is there anyone here a fan of batman or super mario?

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Anonymous wrote:I cut off "Jessie" when I asked my 8 yr DD where the parents were and her reply was "They are celebrities, they do not have time to be home"
Also the stereotyping -- head shaking little black girl and the obviously fake accent of the little indian boy with a lizard named Rudyard Kipling
DONE
We do some Shake it Up
Still do Ant Farm, but that may because I have not watched enough episodes to have caught on to the offensive stuff

This is exactly why I don't let my son watch Jessie. I could not believe the racial stereotypes they're perpetuating on this show! I do let him watch Good Luck Charlie and Kickin' It and Austin & Ally and Lab Rats. He hasn't shown interest in the others mentioned on here. Oh, I forgot The Suite Life and Dog with a Blog. I outlawed those because they're particularly inane.

The racial stereotyping is one of the main reasons why I will not allow my children to watch Disney Shows. I cringed when I watched a few episodes of "Jessie." I can't believe some of the crappy shows that are on the Disney Channel.

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I am feeling fortunate that my son has no interest in TV since he grew out of the preschool shows. Of course it has been replaced with an obsession with minecraft. Playing minecraft, watching YouTube videos of others playing minecraft (where he has learned some rather colorful new words). But I guess at least we are avoiding the disney channel.

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Anonymous wrote:I cut off "Jessie" when I asked my 8 yr DD where the parents were and her reply was "They are celebrities, they do not have time to be home"
Also the stereotyping -- head shaking little black girl and the obviously fake accent of the little indian boy with a lizard named Rudyard Kipling
DONE
We do some Shake it Up
Still do Ant Farm, but that may because I have not watched enough episodes to have caught on to the offensive stuff

PP here, I do allow "Good Luck Charlie" and "Dog with a Blog".

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Ugh. My 8 year old has gotten into all these stupid shows. At first, I didn't really pay that much attention. I thought "Disney, it must be ok". Notsomuch. We've let him watch them and now he's on to Jessie. They are awful and not a good influence. I'm putting my foot down and telling him they are off-limits from now on.

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My 10 year old DD was studying the girls on these shows for clues on what it means to be a preteen or teen and it was a terrible example.

+1000 I honestly believe that the behaviors on these shows is what drives a good amount of mean girl behavior. Bullying is much more aligned with American culture than others. These hows teach young girls that is important to be cool and pretty, how to exclude others, and basically be an idiot.

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Dog with a Blog and Austin and Ally are good. I have watched both shows with my DCs (ages 10 and 8), and they made me laugh. Dog with a Blog is really good.

Girl Meets World is good, too.

Recently rented old episodes of Hannah Montana and Wizards of Waverly Place -- both were not funny and I really disliked the "dumb, sassy, attitude-driven girls" both shows presented. Thankfully they are no longer regularly on air.

Haven't seen Ant Farm.