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That's because it puts you in a "coma like" state!!
My husband will check the weather on the inter net 4 times a day or more! He will say well its going to rain, I just smile and say look out the window dear, its raining!! I guess the weather is just not a big deal to me. It will be what it will be anyway. It matters a little more during camping season but we have camped in the rain many times.
Camping in the rain is not fun!
We are going next month and Im debating if I should set up the tent and spray that rain stuff on it
We have some Disney movies around here for my daughter. Wall-E is a newer one that she likes. She really likes Oliver as well. But when it comes to TV, we watch either Nick Jr, maybe a couple of shows on regular Nick (heavily supervised, but the commercials are an issue now
), or Sprout (PBS kid programming all the time). That's in the mornings only. We take our mornings pretty easy. During the afternoon the TV is off, or if I want to watch a little bit I put it to DIY, Food Network (dangerous channel!), or the Science channel. They usually have shows on that I don't have to worry about my daughter seeing something that's too intense or mature for her. But then again, this is coming from a household that watches Hee Haw every Sunday night on RFD.
Two shows that are completely banned in this house are Barney and Spongebob. One may be educational, but it's so annoying to me that I can't stand it. The other one I have yet to find much merit in it.
I used to buy all the vhs disney movies for thechickengoesrawr when she was short! I always liked The disney movies that were on on the weekends back in the 70's... that was big excitment for me! I was however, a little dissapointed when Jim Henson's company sold the Muppets to them!
I always enjoyed the Peter Pan, Pooh Bear, and Alice in Wonderland. I never cared for all that Princess crap.
I really hate Disney! I used to like Winnie the Pooh and Mickey Mouse when I was real young, and Hannah Montana, Suite Like of Zach and Cody, Thats So Raven, etc. when I was like 10, but now I realize how silly I was for liking that kind of stuff. My biggest pet peeve of Disney is probably the talentless Jonas Brothers. I don't watch much tv anymore, but usually it involves music! I watched a Led Zeppelin concert last Thurday, A Rolling Stone's concert on Friday, and typically watch music videos on VH1 Classic in the morning while I get ready for the day, and I'm an American Idol addict
I do NOT like Disney Channel. Especially "Hannah Montana" - if you actually watch it, she's very mean towards Lilly, except when they're like getting over some big fight or something. If Miley Cyrus wasn't Billy Ray's daughter, she would never have gotten the part.
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I completely agree. Stuff like ''Celebrity Rehab'', ''Jersey Shore'', and any of those ''dating shows'' send some horrible messages, esspecially to kids.
I have kind of given up on watching TV. All the reality crap, copy cat shows and show times that don't allow me to watch the program has ruined it for me. I'll watch shows online if I really want to see them, and if I do have the TV on, it's the news, SciFi (SyFy is a silly name), NatGeo, Discovery, History or USA.
As for Disney, I would watch when they had cartoons I remembered on, which meant I was watching late at night to catch X-men and Gargoyles or some of the older Mickey Mouse cartoons. As with any cartoon channel, I drifted away when they started adding a lot of live action shows. Cartoon Network is no long all cartoons, which got me to stop watching. Kiddie reality shows aren't that interesting. Nickelodeon was alright with it's cartoons but I stopped watching so much after they canceled Invader Zim. I did watch The Last Air Bender for a while, but they stopped airing that too. The live action, kiddie dramas and comedies just don't interest me at all so I never really watched them.
Movie wise, I like a fair amount of Disney movies. The animation quality tends to be top notch and they stories are compelling and interesting. They did tone down a lot of the stories they adapted into movies, such as any of Grimm's fairy tales as well as Bambi. The original stories, if animated, would have no appeal to children at all, and could serve to be emotionally damaging. As for older movies and their racial stereotyping, a lot of that came from the culture of the time. The animators would occasionally throw in a major stereotype, such as Sunflower the Centaur from Fantasia or the Crows from Dumbo, to point out the silliness of how people assumed others were. The intent was not an ill one, but it has been so misconstrued and people are so sensitive to it now that they went and edited out entire sections of film apologetically.
For the role of women in the movies, especially the older films such as Sleeping Beauty, Snow White and Beauty and the Beast, it is a look at the time period and how things are meant to be. Honestly, I would not expect Belle to be so independent and that well educated in the time period the story is supposed to take place. I don't expect to see strong independent women in movies set anytime before the 19th century. That is a sticking point with me when it comes to their films, live action or animated. Too many people push for strong lead women to be in the film to influence their children while not taking into account that they are distorting historical traditions. Pirates of the Caribbean bugged me with the Elizabeth Swan character. Yeah there were occasional women who were like that but not very many from the characters upbringing. For the next film they put out a notice asking for women with no augmentations and a dancers body because they wanted to keep to realism, because having a female lead with a bronze tan, smoothly shaven legs and perfect white teeth was historically accurate.
My take on it is instead of asking the media to train kids to be independent and strong willed and not fit themselves into a mold, why not take it upon yourself to direct your kids into being a better person, letting them watch a show suited for their age and then talking to them about it? Explain the life a princess would have really led (being trained like a dog, treated like an object and married off at the age of 13 to someone of her parents choosing and forever having no real voice of her own). Or explain what a stereotype is and why it is bad to judge a group based on one person. As parents it's your job to raise your children, not the village's. The media, the schools and the community provide opportunity for you to teach them what you feel they should know about themselves.
