In response to your post, I disagree with your conflict with this subject. I, myself, have two daughters, seven and eight, who both watch Fairly Odd Parents and have not been affected by it. I have heard in various episodes the language that you may be talking about, but I have also heard heartfelt, true characterizations of parents in this show. The way that they show the parents as dumb and unloving towards their son isn’t to falsely depict parents but to add more story line and support the main premise of the show which is that the son has fairy godparents who assume the role of parents. Also, as the show is a cartoon, the language that it used doesn’t play as important of a role because it can not be taken seriously when it is used with innocent imagines. The way that the parents talk and are talked about don’t show false stereotypes always, also, because the children need to be exposed to how some adults act so they grow up with a realistic view of society. All in all, I think out of all the things to be guarding your children from, a silly cartoon with silly language isn’t one of them.
On Thursday, May 25, 2017 at 12:28:25 AM UTC-7, Linda Prescott wrote: > > I have a seven year old son who has recently started watching the > Nickelodeon show Fairly Odd Parents, which I knew very little about > besides the fact it is a cartoon on a television channel for kids. The > other day, I walked into the room when he was watching it and overheard the > parents of the protagonist, a young boy with “fairy godparents”, saying “we > are going to punish our son for no reason.” Obviously, I was taken aback by > this comment, as I had no clue how the parents were portrayed in this show > my child was watching. I talked to my son about it and he said that all of > his friends are watching it and that its content would not affect him, but > I don’t want him growing up thinking of parents as malicious and unloving. > Have any of you encountered the same problem or have any advice for a mom > who wants to protect her son while not watching his every move and thing he > does? > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Swagger" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
