Sunday, April 15, 2012
Dirt Girl
Have you ever watched modern day children's cartoons? They are not nearly as educational as the ones from my childhood. When I was growing up, i remember watching Bill Nye the Science Guy and the Magic School bus while I ate dinner and did my homework. Both of these programs held a significance towards my learning as a child. I got to learn how to relate science to life and how to conduct experiments. I also learned how to work as a team to get tasks done. I loved these television shows not only for their educational value, but the fact that they were fun too.
While babysitting recently, I realized that children's shows really have none of this educational value. The intelligence in children's television has severely deteriorated. There is this television show called "Dirt Girl World", that the little girl liked to watch. It was about a girl who lives in a junkyard like place and has adventures in the dirt. Her song even says they like to get "grubby". What is this telling children? That it's okay to go out and have adventures in the dirt? That it's fine to be careless because your having "adventures". The morals and lessons that are being taught have changed drastically from when I was a kid. Frankly, it has changed for the worse.
We need to have cartoons and children's shows that are beneficial to today's youth. From watching Bill Nye the Science Guy, I always took away a lesson and it made learning more fun. What exactly can you take away from dirt girl? By giving children an educational backbone in cartoons, it is helping them for the rest of their lives. You need to give children an early start in education, that will help them pursue education in the future.
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Not gonna lie, the animations in that show kind of freaks me out. You bring up a good point that there really aren't as many educational TV shows out there today. Instead, it's whatever ENTERTAINS children versus subliminally or literally teaching them life lessons/academic skills. Finding out how to entertain kids is fine, but at that age it's more important to learn then to be entertained. There is hope though. Dora the explorer is huge success and does actually help kids learn another language. Also, sesame street is still on television (I think) and who didn't watch that?
ReplyDeleteI agree that they need to come out with more educational shows for kids. Children who are to young for school, but are in the learning stages need shows that are going to teach them things, because they don't have someone there to teach them. Parents nowadays just stick their children in front of the television and expect them to be entertained. So why not have them watch some educational shows instead of a show that they can learn useless things from.
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