I was born in China, and to be honest, I started
to watch Disney films at a very late age. When I was around 8, I first started
to know Disney and watched all princess films. Maybe because I was already 8
and was no longer a little kid, I did not get too affected in terms of trying
to be a princess by these films. To be surprised I was more interested in
painting after watching all the films rather than becoming a princess. This
reminds me of a TV show. I believe it’s called the Nanny. It is about some
experienced nannies go to some families that have problems of educating kids. Some
of the kids are not polite. They yell at each other, and they don’t listen to
their parents. I did not blame all the kids in this TV show. Instead of saying
how bad these kids are, I think the problems are the parents. A lot of families
have a lot of kids and they don’t have that much energy to take care all of the
kids. They have jobs and other things to do which will reduce the time that
they spend with kids. Parenting is really important for children especially
when they are young. Parents need to set a role model for their kids and that’s
how children learn all the social skills. If you don’t spend time with your
kids and just let them watch TV or play by themselves, you don’t know what kind
of things they will learn.
This is just one type of the parents.
Another type is that parents don’t know how to punish their children.
Punishment doesn’t mean beating or yelling. There is something that the kids
must know what they shouldn’t do. If they are getting over, you need to stop
and tell them don’t do this. A lot of parents only know how to courage their
children and they give whatever they want. This action just spoils the kids and
their personalities can turn very bad when they grow up.
Back to the princess culture, I don’t think
these cartoons are evil or bad or they are on purpose to make these stories.
There’s always another way to see these stories, just like what we see in
class. If the parents just leave the kids with all the cartoons without sharing
with the children, the children will just get excited about the princess, the
fairies and the beautiful dresses the princess have. And if parents start to
dress the kids like a princess, the children will want more. If the parents can
spend some time watching cartoons with their children and tell the kids the
good things about these cartoons, I believe children will not just focus on the
colorful life a princess have but more into the good personalities or behaviors
a princess has.
Princess culture is just one small part of
the popular culture. Actually there are a lot of problems with educating kids.
TV violence, video games, internet……All these can heavily impact on children.
For me, the things out there are not the main case of the problem. Think about
who stay with children most, who care children most. Parents are one big chain
of the entire life of a child.
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