Childrens Shows and do you approve?

Have you tried letting your 4 year old watch Dora Dora, Backyardigans, Lazytown and Franklin? Those shows have values and my 4 years old enjoys watching them unlike shows like spongebob, fairly oddparents, billy and mandy, etc. Are you overreacting? NO!!! I feel the same way and I fell at the same trap as well. Now, I tell my daughter that if she is going to immitate words that she knows are bad she is not allowed to watch them anymore. The good thing is my daughter knows the attitude that i don't like and words that are not suppose to be repeated. She sometimes asks me questions about certain words that is new to her and asks me if its a bad word or a good word.

my daughter watches elmo,barney,teletubbies, dora, wiggles, she has learned a lot from these shows. my duaghter does not watch the shows you listed cause i do not have cable so that leaves us with only 1 or 2 channels. which is ket1 and the cw channel

Luckily both of our sons prefer the Disney channel. Higglytown Heroes, Johnny and the Sprites, Handy Manny and such. They also like Blues Clues. Some of the cartoons on the other networks I try to avoid. They gross me out, so I don't let them watch them if I can help it. What ever happened to Bugs Bunny and Tom and Jerry, ya know?

I understand you, because sometimes spongebob shows naughty things that our kids must learn from watching it, my son love to watch blues clues, dora and spongebob too. Blues clues and dora is more on learning but spongebob is sometimes showing craziness, what you're doin to your child for you to take a shower is also am doin for my son, this way of entertaining them keep them stay in just a corner and enjoy watching these shows, until am done to my shower. Its not maybe bad as long as you're always there to guide him.

have you ever watched bugs bunny or the road runner? i grew up watching these, and others that i can't recall right now, and i never once tried to drop a piano on somebody or feed them metal shavings and try to catch them with a giant magnet. now is the perfect time to teach your children that television is not real. cartoons are storybooks in motion. if they learn that lesson early in life, they may be less likely to believe everything the see on tv in the future.

I think Jimmy Neutron is fine but I have vowed never to let my child watch Spongebob. I managed to watch a show (when I didn't have a baby then) wherein one of the characters put on shoes with spikes and jumped on the eyeballs of the starfish character. I was shocked and appalled. I couldn't believe that they put those things in children's shows.... I watch the Simpsons but it is clearly marketed towards adults. But Spongebob is marketed as a kiddie character and a kiddie show! I don't think you're overreacting. I see my children and it is so true how their minds are like sponges that absorb a lot of things. I would probably take a shower at a later time. If you have PBSKids channel or Noggin, you can lead them to watch those shows instead...or a DVD of his favorite show. I hope this helps.

I cannot stand SpongeBob for the simple fact that it has NO educational value what so ever. Ihave decided to only let my kids watch Disney, and another channel Noggin. They offer fun and education all in one and are copletely harmeless. The only time I will let my kids watch Nickelodeon is in the Morning when Nick JR. is on because those shows are educational. I make it a point to monitor the shows my kids watch because I dont want them to pick up any bad habbits.

My baby like to watch the mickey mouse clubhouse, little einstiens and doodlebops. I like these shows they are very educational

My daughters are in love with Dora and I don't mind them watching this at all as I find it is teaching them so much . The entire show is dedicated to teaching our children good things and in such a way that they are learning all the time . They also like shows like little bear and Timothy goes to school . I monitor everything they watch as I don't mind them watching t.v but I don't want them watching anything that is not going to teach something in a good way . There are too many violent cartoons out there nowadays that teach our children that fighting is a good thing and I don't want my children to pick up on this type of behaviour , they will come across stuff like this in life on their own , I don't want to encourage it .

I let my 12 year old watch these programs, because she can tell the difference between reality and fiction. if she were four years old, i do not know if I would let her watch these programs.

My kids only watch the Noggin channel with the preschool cartoons. They love Franklin the Turtle, Little Bear, and Pinky Dinky Doo. While watching these my 2 yr old daughter has learned what a triangle is and can participate in the little skits that they have in between the shows because I have been teaching her her colors and numbers. Both my 1 and 2 yr old love the Noggin shows and because they teach preschool things then I don't mind them watching them.

The Wiggles seems good. A lot of kids seems to like it and I don't think they have done anything bad in front of kids before so my vote goes to them.

oh almost forgot with my two and their ages now I tell them I am going to go take a shower and i give them the option of time on the their computer or playstation while I am out of the room. And occasionally I will give them a choice of one of their dvds or vcr tapes to watch but it has to be something they can both agree on. SO perhaps you can check and see what is on tv at the moment and offer him a choice of 2 shows you pick and it has to be one or the other or no tv at all and he can go sit in his room on the bed till your done with your shower or whatever. Especially if you truly do not want him watching those cartoons I can't stand em.

I totally understand you.My boys are 3 and 5 and it is Spongebob thins and Spiderman that. Seems like they enjoy the violent ones huh? My boys wrestle and everything. I get upset because I don't want them to fight but you know what I have 2 other babies and for me to dedicate my life to monitoring their tv would be impossible. What they see now they will eventually see later. I watch this channel called tbn and there is another channel but I don't know the name of it. They are religious channels and on sat. they play nothing but spiritual ed. for children and my boys love it. They have puppets and even cartoons. I take my shower in the late evening when they go to bed which is 8 p.m. I believe in montioring, sometimes you have to sacrifice. I let them watch nick, disney, pbs, all of that but you also have to talk and teach. Let him read as well too much tv is not good.

I don't know what to tell you. My son is 8 and was probably around 4 when sponge bob started coming on TV and he has never tried to do anything that the characters have done. My son does a excellent grasp of real and fake though for a kid his age. He is very creative, but is very cautious on the same note. Maybe he just needs to learn the difference between real and fake.

My kids are of different ages,my boys are now almost 27 and 23,my daughter is 10.My boys wanted the watch "The Simpson's" because alot of other kids at school did and I said no,because that boy is a brat thru the whole show.There are things that happen sometimes in "Spongebob","Jimmy Neutron",etc.But if you teach your children what's pretend and what's not then they won't do those things and follow that pattern of not good things to do. My daughterwanted to watch "Ed,Ed and Eddy" and I said no because they are violent thru the whole cartoon.Now my daughter basically know's what to watch and what not.Matter of fact if she is surfing the channel's and start's to watch a show that she think's is not appropiate then she will come tell me about what happened and I won't thinkit is so bad,but she say's she doesn't think she should watch it and changes the channel.But,I did not have that action from either of my boys.I guess maybe girl's are different.I did not see anything wrong with Spongebob or Jimmy Neutron.My favorite was Dragontail's thou.And she would watch Barney,Sesame Street,Dora the Explorer,The Magic School Bus and other's.My boy's watched He Man,She-ra and Thunder Cats mostly.

I don't allow those shows in my home. There are plenty of good shows on. You could adjust your schedule so that you shower when better shows are on, or put in a video instead. In the long run which is more important: a shower or the bad habits your child has learned? Personally I would rather take a shower at another time than allow my child tpo watch those shows, which are for children 7+ not 4 year olds. Try PBS in the mornings, or buy vidoes of better programs that you can put in while you shower.

I don't think that you have anything to worry about. My daughter went threw the Rugrats stage and would call everyone 'dumb baby'. It drove me nuts! She has outgrown that and is now older and into Hannah Montana, Zack and Cody and Corry in the House. She also likes to watch Boy Meets World and I use to watch that years ago. They go threw these phases and then are done with them...don't worry.

You might be but i guess it depends on what he's learning that he shouldn't be. Most of the shows my daughter watches are pretty good ones, Play School, The Wiggles, Sesame Street, Gordom the garden gnome, Fifi & the Flowertots, Bananas in Pyjamas, stuff like that. They're not bad influences so i don't mind her watching! Keep in mind though, she's only just gone 1 so she only watches Tv for about 2 minutes at a time, in between running from toy to toy & driving me nuts!!! Maybe you could try something like an educational DVD if you don't want him learning those things, when those shows come on, put on the DVD & he'll learn good stuff while you're showering!

I really like children shows and among these are Dora the explorer, Land Before Time and Barney...I really like these coz they are educational.I like to show them to the children in school.