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all tv shows child has must be educational. i will edit all the tv they are given so for example if they are given finding nemo, every "subtle joke for the parents" even a bit sexual will be censored out. violence will not be censored because children must learn from an early age its ok to defend themselves. pop quiz questions will be laced throughout the movie, for example with finding nemo, it will ask the child questions about fun facts about the fish. if the movie is not educational at all, it will ask things like math questions, or moral questions the movie might teach.  video games must also be educational, and if they are not educational but brain goo, then the child can only play that game 1 hour a day.

I'd prefer my children's programming be the stuff that awakens the imagination. I'm thankful to have been a part of 90s television programming growing up, as it was a surprisingly experimental time for pushing the medium of what a cartoon could be before the following Adult Cartoon Renaissance. 

Kids can withstand a lot from not questioning the depth of the media, hence how Tom & Jerry can just look like slapstick instead of an idealization of violence. While a combination of sources pulling on the same associations can build an identity in a tailored direction, that's less about the tool and more about how it was used (like my father having me play fighting games with him before doing actual martial arts training). 

My folks let me watch a surprising amount of stuff, but they watched it with me instead of leaving me to my own devices. When there were questions they were there to fill in the blanks and help it not forge some sort of messy deviant path, and overtime this helped me see the disconnection between myself and media in a way that led to a resistance against it's pull. 

Turncoat said: 

I'd prefer my children's programming be the stuff that awakens the imagination. I'm thankful to have been a part of 90s television programming growing up, as it was a surprisingly experimental time for pushing the medium of what a cartoon could be before the following Adult Cartoon Renaissance. 

Kids can withstand a lot from not questioning the depth of the media, hence how Tom & Jerry can just look like slapstick instead of an idealization of violence. While a combination of sources pulling on the same associations can build an identity in a tailored direction, that's less about the tool and more about how it was used (like my father having me play fighting games with him before doing actual martial arts training). 

My folks let me watch a surprising amount of stuff, but they watched it with me instead of leaving me to my own devices. When there were questions they were there to fill in the blanks and help it not forge some sort of messy deviant path, and overtime this helped me see the disconnection between myself and media in a way that led to a resistance against it's pull. 

 yes, its just when i was a child these sorts of media did cause me to be a very violent child, although i had other issues to. it just depends on the child, and i want the child to be the best they can be and have a good life. early childhood is the time children learn the most and the fastest, so its the time to cram all you can into them, its the easiest time for them to lean other languages ect, which can help them later in life, and also help them have a higher intelligence into adulthood which can help them have better lives if they use it well. the toys children play with can really get them into things and learning what they like, and i would like media and video games that help the child as well, for example, the video game super scribblenauts is a perfect game i would get my kid, or minecraft although until they were older i would not let them play where they can connect to others on the internet unless its there friend or something and then i would watch them play to make sure an adult stranger did not get into the mix. but i would not over protect them either, just with the internet and media input i would, but as far as scraping their knees and picking things up off the floor, well kids have to learn some things through child and error and learn to heed their parents warnings on things.  this is why i want to get them childrens sewing machines, chemistry kits, puzzels.  id like to start them out with a pet that can die but has a life of little value so that when the child messes up its not animal abuse on my part, so id like to get them sea monkeys, and then gradually elevate them to more and more complicated pets as time goes on and they prove to be responsible.  id like to get them toy guns and bows and arrows, so that the child can practice good aim from an early age without hurting themselves, id like to get them a telescope so they can see whats out there, and even have them have a botanical kit and if they do that well, get them a little garden in the yard. id like to get them an easy bake oven to introduce them to cooking and math, and a cash register so they can learn to handle money. when i take them to the store with me, id like to teach them finances.  i want to teach them to garden, disect dead frogs with them, teach them basic animal care by having them feed our chickens and water them when they are older, and even help me kill and prepare them once they are 11+ so they can learn where food comes from and how to do it. id like to teach them to go fishing, and ask them moral questions such as "if 2 men are on 1 train track and 1 man is on the other train track" to learn how they think and have them develop their own ideas from a young age. id like to teach them what death is and how it works from an early age although scary, so the child will understand that if they are not very careful and listen to daddy and mommy about touching the bleach, they may not exist anymore. i will teach them 1 part of where babys come from when they are younger without to much XXX and explain the rest when they are older but only when they ask me. i want the child to grow veggies, cook the veggies, and eat them. i want them to have a little cricket farm so they can raise the crickets to eat and feed to chickens to introduce them to farming from an early age. 

I think it takes a wide exposure of different media to desensitize someone to media itself. If you stick to only one discipline of it, it gains the potential for brainwashing. 

Media weirdos are always the ones who only had just a few sources of it growing up, while people with a wide exposure of it tend to err closer to Existential themes from noticing the authors and actors. 

Turncoat said: 

I think it takes a wide exposure of different media to desensitize someone to media itself. If you stick to only one discipline of it, it gains the potential for brainwashing. 

Media weirdos are always the ones who only had just a few sources of it growing up, while people with a wide exposure of it tend to err closer to Existential themes from noticing the authors and actors. 

 i dont want them to be desensitized because then they wont be able to understand how severe world problems and poverty are as an adult and will have less compassion. i want them to be charitable, and kind. i want them to read about children starving in africa, cry for them, and help. they will get most of the media classics, shrek, finding nemo, even family guy, but it will be censored and have some math questions or something thrown in there every 20 minutes or so. 

Isn't it better to be resistant to the stresses of the world instead of letting it trigger you? 

A friend of mine in a private school was essentially raised on computer programs his father wrote to keep him sharp on math, science, and computer programming. It had timers and a scoring system and everything to try to make it entertaining, but he ultimately took it as "just more school". 

While he already had little secret rebellions he kept to himself to cope with this lifestyle, the minute I got him to try a few rounds of Star Fox 64 his goals re-oriented in a more chaotic, free-spirited direction. 

People need art, and they need that art to not just be more school. If he'd had an earlier, more gradual exposure to it he'd probably have handled it less "freedom fighter" "out of the closet"-ish. 

Turncoat said: 

A friend of mine in a private school was essentially raised on computer programs his father wrote to keep him sharp on math, science, and computer programming. It had timers and a scoring system and everything to try to make it entertaining, but he ultimately took it as "just more school". 

While he already had little secret rebellions he kept to himself to cope with this lifestyle, the minute I got him to try a few rounds of Star Fox 64 his goals re-oriented in a more chaotic, free-spirited direction. 

People need art, and they need that art to not just be more school. If he'd had an earlier, more gradual exposure to it he'd probably have handled it less "freedom fighter" "out of the closet"-ish. 

 i would not do things to that extent. as you see by what i am offering here, they will have lots of enjoyable cartoons and art. they will have normal games, and educational ones, but the normal ones will only be allowed a certain time a day and any more than that must be earned. dud that kid have finding nemo? super scribble nauts? a child sized car? probably not. i wont make there life hell. super scribble nauts is an art game. here ill show you, it was my favorite as a child.  they wont be playing games like, grand theft auto, but they wont just be playing leap frog either. obviously, a chemistry kit and telescope, is very different than a computer that gives you homework all day.

Scribblenauts is actually a pretty good choice of game for a kid.