Kids & Anime

Trunksgirl07 · Post by **Trunksgirl07** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 10:55 am

Nienna Elentari wrote:

Um, that's pretty pathetic if you have to blame anime or video games for their actions (unless something is mentaly wrong). Parents should teach their kids responsibilty, difference between right and wrong, and that the choices they make have consequences(sp).

I agree 100%. It's the parents who need to make sure kids don't do wrong things, but then again the child has a bit of responsibility too. If he was told not to do something and he still does it then either he's going to get spanked or... they'll let him keep doing it untill he gets in REAL trouble...like with the police or something. Then again, you can't arrest a 10 yr. old child so that's still a problem. The point is kids either listen or they don't.

Sprectra · Post by **Sprectra** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 1:16 pm

People never want to take responsibility for their own actions. In this case, the parents don't want to admit that they were the ones who screwed up by either letting the TV parent their child or by letting them watch really violent stuff and letting the kid screwed up, so they blame everything else, not even stopping to consider if they were to blame or not.

Okay, rant is over.

someperson · Post by **someperson** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 4:00 pm

Blaming media for violent kids is just a lame excuse.

For the most part, people who blame the media for their problems are just weak minded. They don't want to face the fact that maybe they went wrong some place. People like that annoy me.

Rorschach · Post by **Rorschach** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 5:21 pm

This issue's been worked over for practically every other kind of media influence, so I guess it makes sense that it comes up for anime as well. My general experience:

Some kinds of violence are good. The vast majority of the kinds we see played out in real life are not. Parents actually ought to expose their children to some violent (and/or sexual) images as part of their training. Nevertheless, most of what's on TV and a high percentage of what's on the movie screen is not the right kind of imagery for this. The media monster is neither innocent of, nor solely to blame for, evil things that children do. While external influences must be taken into account, the children have a measure of free will and are also responsible for what they do.

Some anime is not suitable for anyone. A good percentage of it is for adults only. A fair amount of it is suitable for younger people. As with other forms of entertainment, the parents bear some responsibility for filtering what kinds of anime their children get to see. In some cases, I believe anime may actually serve better than domestic cartoons for entertaining the children, especially given how many animes offer a less simplistic view of morality. (Compare Scryed to the X-men cartoons for just one example.)

Cultural factors should be taken into account: the sooner children learn that not all cartoons are for all ages, the better. That cartoons are just for kids is one foolish notion I hope to see overthrown in our time. The principle in choosing anime, I contend should be the same as for other media: the right materials for the right people at the right time.

DDramone · Post by **DDramone** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 5:24 pm

Um, that's pretty pathetic if you have to blame anime or video games for their actions (unless something is mentaly wrong).

have you ever worked at a day care? yeah, little kids are retarded. no kidding!

and dont we measure how mentaly disabled someone is by guessing how many years they are mentally?

oldwrench · Post by **oldwrench** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 9:14 pm

DDramone wrote:
have you ever worked at a day care? yeah, little kids are retarded. no kidding!

and dont we measure how mentaly disabled someone is by guessing how many years they are mentally?

I hope your kidding.

If this were true you would be hopelessly retarded from my point of view,

which is totaly false. Kids in daycare are acting they're age, inexperienced and immature, not retarded. They still need to be taught the rules of interacting with the world around them.

Moonlight Soldier · Post by **Moonlight Soldier** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 9:30 pm

I worked at a Elementary for a little while. The kindergarten room was hectic. Not because the kids were overly hyperactive or anything, but because MOST of them lacked all forms of communication skills. I swear, some of them could barely speak properly and they're 5 years old. Not to mention a lot of them didn't know how to identify colours and numbers.

The problem: Their parents/guardians etc, didn't have the time to sit down with their kids and interact with them every day. They had no learning support at home.

And wow, old wrench...despite the numerous times I view your sn, I always tend to see 'Old WENCH'.....

oldwrench · Post by **oldwrench** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 9:52 pm

Moonlight Soldier wrote:

And wow, old wrench...despite the numerous times I view your sn, I always tend to see 'Old WENCH'.....

She's upstairs, maybe I should go up and

...... (slaps self) clean thoughts, clean thoughts.

She taught elementry too, years ago, now she teaches quilting.

Time and money concerns are really hurting our children.

" The love of money is the root of many kinds of evil". We need to keep in mind what is really important, our children. Our children are the only things we have that we can take with us to heaven.

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 10:07 pm

Makes me feel happy my parents always spent a lot of time with me.

I don't think I was ever particularly blocked from violence. I've been exposed to some violent content fairly early in my life. I think I was pretty scared, but I don't think it affected me very much. I'm still about the least violent person I know - and I played games like Doom and Duke Nukem starting around age 11. I've also watched some violent movies here and there - they were kind of scary, but I don't think my parents minded. Instead, they taught me how to deal with violence and other things that eventually made me the non-violent guy I am today. In general, they were less concerned with what I watched or played and more concerned with how I actually behaved. I may be desensitized, but this 'sensitivity' has been replaced with reason rather than complete disregard...

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Though, to think of it, God help us all if more people like me suddenly begin to be raised

DDramone · Post by **DDramone** » Sat Jun 05, 2004 12:31 am

oldwrench wrote:
I hope your kidding. If this were true you would be hopelessly retarded from my point of view, which is totaly false. Kids in daycare are acting they're age, inexperienced and immature, not retarded. They still need to be taught the rules of interacting with the world around them.

just saw how old you are and

hahaha.

still, we colloquialy (am i using this word right?) we measure a mentally handicaped kid's handicap by estimating how old he thinks and acts. thats wat i ment.