Veggietales...good influence or bad??

I am not very religious what so ever. But I like you like the moral & ethical lessons taught in the show. There aren't enough moral or ethics in kids shows. You mentioned Power Rangers, thats one show My kids will not watch. I usually try to stick to PBS Kids mainly & Qubo isn't too bad. Though I can see from the person who gave ya that stern look bout it distorting the lessons in the Bible. But to each their own. KWIM? Everyone has their own perspective on the meaning of the stories in the Bible. A show like Veggie Tales does what you mentioned moral and ethical stories and it's not done "word for word" to the Bible as it would loose it's "kid appeal" and become boring. But you should of told that lady that a lil bit of God's values in a appealing manner to small kids are better than none at all.

hehe, my response would have been, "Gee, I don't remember asking you for your opinion," and walked away. You are a smart mom!! I can't believe the garbage that parents allow their kids to watch and play!! I love Veggie Tales. When I had my dance school, I had a tv and videos to keep kids busy who were waiting for their siblings or kids in between classes. Veggie Tales was one of the many similar tapes that I had. Kids learn what they see. If you show them violence or sassy kids talking back to their parents, then they think that it is okay to do that.

My son has only watched a few VeggieTales movies. I don't hold their religious values but I do agree that they do teach good lessons. Of course, I never really had a problem with my son acting out shows like power rangers, We taught him early on the difference between real &fake and what was and wasn't appropriate for him to act out.

My kids watch Veggie Tales all of the time. In fact they watched several of them today. My son started getting them when he was about 2 and now my daughter watches them too. My kids are 8 and 1 1/2. I think Veggie Tales are good for kids.

I love Veggie Tales! My son was 9 when the first one came out, but I bought it anyway, since I was working in children's ministry. He's 24 now, and we can still both sing...."God is bigger than the boogie man. He's bigger than Godzilla and the monsters on TV. Oh God is bigger than the boogie man. And He's watching out for you and me." At least that's the way we remember the words. When my son was little, he only watched PBS, some of the old 50s & 60s shows in black and white, and videos I purchased, usually from the Christian bookstore. He also didn't have his first bite of candy until he was 3 (and then from my mother). By the time Veggie Tales came out, his values had pretty much been set. But I shared those videos with more than one church, and they all loved the values and what Biblical teaching there was. I wonder if that lady in the store works with kids or has any clue about how watered down lessons for kids are in Sunday school and children's church....so that they can understand the concepts.

First of all, you as a parent must weigh the pros and cons of any content that you will expose your children to. If you feel that it is not right then by all means go with that. If you have any questions about what this product is teaching then do some research on what is being introduced. I have a 10 yr. old daughter and I let her watch Veggie Tales, as do I. They have some very good moral structure to them. There aren't enough ethically responsible children programing/products around nowadays. It a shame. Thanks. Blessings...

I saw one of the Veggietales and it does help introduce moral values to children. As for distorting a bible lesson, I used to watch those movies about Biblical characters that were not exactly the truth= like Samson meeting Hercules, etc. but I also read the Bible. I considered that poetic license, so the Veggietales could be considered as comedic license. Oh my sons watched Transformers when they were young and they acted them out as well as Power Rangers. Not as violent as yours did though. But we did not have Veggietales when they were small. We had the Flintstones and BC.

We have several Veggies Tales movies at our house. Our son will be 3 in February. He's getting to where he's starting to understand some of the lessons in them now. He watches them some, but not too often. He still prefers the Wiggles, since they have actual dances that he can follow. I don't allow him to watch too much violent stuff (unless you count sports?). We watch PBS kids, Playhouse Disney, and Nick Jr on TV. Any movies that we buy that aren't specifically one of his shows on DVD, we watch before we allow him to see it. Veggie Tales are another exception, and he can watch them right away. I'm not alarmed by anything that Veggie Tales teach, and I have watched every one of them that we own (around 10).

I don't have any kids of my own but I am not afraid to say that I lOVE VeggieTales, And "3,2,1, Penguins" also. I even took a liberal girl I was dating to see The Jonah Movie at the theater and She loved it. I taught Sunday School to 4 year olds for about 7 years and I showed these videos a lot. You are definitely right about it's positive influence on kids. And I would agree that they are not 100% Biblically accurate. (There are no talking tomatoes in the bible, after all.) But they get the message out and teach kids important lessons. If you haven't seen "3,2,1,Penguins", You HAVE to get them, but make sure you(ahem, I mean THEY)watch the first one so you get the back story. They really do have lots of jokes for adults. Some of them go right over the kids heads. But that is part of their appeal, I was just looking at the message boards on IMDB.com and saw a question "VeggieTales watchers,how old are you?" It was posted by a 13 y.O. And the answers were everywhere from 9-39 And everywhere in between, Even teenagers and college students. A little VT trivia, Do you know why Phil Vischer chose to make the charachters as Vegetables? Because he wanted to avoid drawing hands.=D He originally was going to go with candy bars but he figured (correctly) that it wouldn't go over well with Parents. (Produce provides much more material for puns anyway). He made the first video on his computer in his bedroom. And we're talking about a 1993 computer,too! My favorite characters are the French Peas, Jean-Claude and Phillipe, The song they sing and their hurling insults In Josh and the Big Wall is hilarious!! As for Power Rangers, I have never seen more than a few minutes of any of the shows but I could usually tell which kids in my SS class watched them. They were always acting it out.

Veggietales aren't bad, they are produced by Focus on the Family. Dobson has a moral outlook on children's programing and wouldn't put something out there with his name on it that steered children away from God. I'm not sure who that lady was but don't listen to her, its not her children that you're raising, keep up the great work mom.

My children love VeggieTales. My two year old doesn't understand it, but he loves the singing because he loves to dance. My daughter on the other hand who is 7 understands it. We watched The Pirate Who Don't Do Anything just a couple weeks ago and it had a very good message. I would rather my children watch the VeggieTales movies than most other cartoons or children shows.

i`ve never heard of veggitales