So our kid is into Pokémon now and wants to watch the TV show.
And there’s this scene where Ash and the other trainers meet some new person and she’s a girl and they’re like, “yo — you’re so beautiful how can you be a good Pokemon trainer?”
Anyhow — I’m looking for tips to rekindle the love of a child who has been told our family has decided that listening to NPR is the new television.
@coloradotravis there’s this weird catch-22 where a kid will read a book that’s trying to speak to kids who are feeling some negative emotions but I just think they are training kids to feel that.
Like in the Junie B. Jones books every character is ‘real’ and flawed (including the adults) and they all don’t get along. I think it’s supposed to be funny but I feel like it’s just teaching bad lessons and maladaptive behavior.
Yeah I see that. Probably depends on the kid.
But we mostly read stories of how to be successful in the face of adversity to our kid, so I suppose that a sort of tacit agreement .
@coloradotravis even when the book/show is a “girls can do x” theme which is supposed to be empowering to kids who have been told they can’t.. it assumes that is a given part of society. My daughter’s first introduction to the idea she can’t do x might be from a book telling her *actually, girls can do x*
Would she have thought of it otherwise? Probably not.
As a former kid, I would rather watch the show and have my parents explain how wrong that sentiment and statement is. Ridicule it for the archaic and cruel stereotyping it is. Talk about famous beautiful brilliant people and how unfair it is to consider them shallow and stupid.
Ultimately parents can't shelter kids, they can only provide context for life as it happens.
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