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I would love cartoons that don't traumatize children, that would be awesome. I watched bambi when I was young and got so traumatized I can't wach animal movies anymore, than I went to see Elio with my niece and she was crying so hard I had to apologize to her parents.
Life is horrible enough lets make cartoons nice
I disagree that this is an actual problem, we have so few sources anymore that show any kind of reality that kids can connect with.
It's worse than ever. It's a world of AI slop that is often far more disturbing, youtube kid's channels that are completely lacking in value or education. Life lessons are avoided like the plague in media and in families now. Parents avoid "hard topics" with their kids at a level that has left an entire generation of adults unable to function under any level of pressure, or unable to do basic things like count change and make eye contact.
Will seeing Bambi's parents die help with that? Not directly, but there is a type of psychological "grounding" that can come from careful exposure to distressing topics as a child.
Life is horrible, but avoiding it makes the problems worse. Avoiding something distressing because you can't take negative emotions is a valid choice but it doesn't make you stronger. Your mental capacity, your emotions and your perceptions are all muscles that wither and die without exercise.
If we taught our children that bad things happen but it's okay and we can recover, maybe there would be less fear and scared adults who cling to violence as a means to feel in control.
I just don't like the idea of sanitizing and shaving every hard corner off a world that desperately needs people with mental and emotional strength like never before.
I don't think we lack nice cartoons. My siblings children watch Bluey and Daniel Tiger's Neighbourhood and they are both great. they also watch the unavoidable paw patrol bu I like this too. My older niece lover frozen but she FF the part where the parents die lol
We have plenty of "nice" cartoons, my point though is that after a certain age, a child should have a solid understanding of some mature concepts like mortality, because if you're going into your pre-teens and still can't watch certain scenes in kid's media, you're going to have a very hard time with an array of things as life rapidly comes at you.
You should try The Fox and the Hound. It’s uplifting.
or brave little toaster T_T
There are like five popular Disney movies where a parent or both parents dont get murdered in order to drive the story forward. Of those left a handful has the parents dead before the story even starts.
Disney really seems to love killing parents. Someone ought to talk to them, seems like an unhealthy obsession.
Aren't they animations of existing fairy tales, at least the early ones?
Coco and Encanto, Moana and Brave, it seems like in the newer movies they're not as addicted to killing the parents, so maybe someone did? I haven't seen wish or raya so idk. The parents are also alive in Tangled I think but she's kidnapped so I don't think we can really count it as no parental trauma (or we could count it as 3 parents?)
Was it the melting child scene? That caught me off guard.
Yeah, that came out of no where. I thought it was great, but also figured it would likely traumatize a number of kids.
I was sad the movie didn't do better in the box office. It wasn't the best, but it was a fun original story.
Also this, but she was watching with me, her aunt, and her parents were not there so she kept asking me if her parents were going to die too. At the end she was crying and saying "i don't want to live with you I want to live with mom and dad" lol. Didn't take offense. I also want her to live with her parents hahaha
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi fucked me up, nightmares about snakes for a couple of years. And having Orson Wells narrate didn't help a bit.