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Toy Story 5 shows 'terror' of children's screen addiction, says Tom Hanks

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Re: Toy Story 5 shows 'terror' of children's screen addiction, says Tom Hanks

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Post by xg15 »

lnsru wrote: post #43
ido wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don’t give kids YouTube access. More curated platforms like Netflix or Amazon Prime at least filter out the worst dreck. I find German public tv (I live in Germany) actually has relatively high quality programming for kids. I rather have my kids watch TV than streaming (when they’re allowed screen time), we bought a TV after almost 20 years of not having one.

Can you name something worthy from German public TV? Imho it’s too political with greenwashing and other shit I don’t want at home. We had a discussion at home for whole week after Checker Tobi complaining about deforestation in Brazil. Germans want to know it better for the whole world while their home country is not performing well at all. The quality is good, but the content should be curated better.

Agree with you that there is a lot of hypocrisy and "holier-than-thou" in german TV. The question is what would be the alternative: Using this as a reason to stop talking about climate/eco issues at all, or instead highlighting where the own shortcomings are as well?

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Post by techblueberry »

lionkor wrote: post #42

I'm not a parent, but I have siblings. Screen addiction is a failure of parenting above all else, so is drug abuse and other kind of issues that are rooted in addiction, barring mental illness and bad luck of course. EDIT: Of course parenting is very difficult, and I don't believe that any of it is easy. I wouldn't blame parents for bad parenting, I would blame a system that creates parents that have no time or energ…

I feel like - I dunno, people hate that there are just incentives.

I’m moderately disciplined and yet - my level of athleticism is directly related to how far away the trail is from my house. When it was 15 minutes away, I had to drive so my run was 45 minutes. Now I don’t so my run is 1:14. Same discipline, better athleticism.

30 years ago both a good and bad parent could kick their kids out of the house and they’d go get in a bike with the neighborhood kids and explore. Now. It’s soooo much more work to get your kid focused on an activity that’s not a screen, because if you kick them out of the house changes are they’ll just got find a screen (if it’s even legal or socially legitimate to do so anymore). The idea that you can “educate your kids” to ignore all those incentives is bananas. Part of educating your kids should be finding a way to put them in environments to learn themselves, and those ways are increasingly gone. Parents don’t understand the new world as well as their kids. It’s probably illogical for most kids to listen to their parents too much anyways. Which also ignores the fact that kids are inclined to do the opposite of what their parents say. I have no idea what my parent do could have done to keep me from smoking. Educate me on the dangers? They did.

To say that all parents got worse in the age of social media and YouTube, and ignoring that the environment fundamentally changed to put so much more ownus on the parents to constantly fight incentives.

I don’t know what the solution is, but to call it bad parenting is, I dunno.

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Post by euroderf »

hexasquid wrote: post #3

Disney, here to save kids from screens. Reminds me of when I saw a bunch of tshirts with the word "PUNK" written on them displayed in a window in a mall.

My take: When punk originated in the UK it was hostile and highly political. By the time it got to NYC it was still hostile but pretty much lost the political part. And by the time it got to L.A. it got sucked into the TV/media machine as a fashion show object of derision. R.I.P.

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Post by cindyllm »

qsera wrote: post #4

Even worse is what the screen is showing...Every new animation on youtube appear to involve some toilet reference, like if I look up dinosaur cartoons, most of the hits will be showing farting dinosaurs or potty training dinosaurs with animated shit (literally). Disgusting... WTAF? Thankfully there is also a wealth of 90s and older cartoons to be had if you care enough to search for them...

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Post by sometimelurker »

xg15 wrote: post #89
sometimelurker wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Disney in this context, 'Disney' represents a plurality, and it's likely that there's people at Disney that want their kids off screens

Even those people still decided that the best course of action would be to make a movie about it. To be shown on screens.

which is reasonable (everyone watches screens) and if they want to communicate this to kids who watch too many screens, is there even a better way?

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Post by LearnYouALisp »

ido wrote: post #8
qsera wrote: post #4

Even worse is what the screen is showing...Every new animation on youtube appear to involve some toilet reference, like if I look up dinosaur cartoons, most of the hits will be showing farting dinosaurs or potty training dinosaurs with animated shit (literally). Disgusting... WTAF? Thankfully there is also a wealth of 90s and older cartoons to be had if you care enough to search for them...

Don’t give kids YouTube access. More curated platforms like Netflix or Amazon Prime at least filter out the worst dreck. I find German public tv (I live in Germany) actually has relatively high quality programming for kids. I rather have my kids watch TV than streaming (when they’re allowed screen time), we bought a TV after almost 20 years of not having one.

We need a big, big 'grassroots' effort and awareness battle

Re: Toy Story 5 shows 'terror' of children's screen addiction, says Tom Hanks

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Post by LearnYouALisp »

adampunk wrote: post #77
kelseyfrog wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So called "potty humour" aka "poop," has never been funny. What they want is for us to see excrement and giggle. That’s the rule, that’s the goal now.

Who are “they”? Does this potty humor conspiracy go straight to the top?

Elsagate, skib-

Re: Toy Story 5 shows 'terror' of children's screen addiction, says Tom Hanks

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Post by LearnYouALisp »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #16
sonofhans wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean, really, what’s funnier than a monkey flinging poop?

A devil with a giant bare ass flinging pork butts and taters with a catapult to an anthromorphised cow and a chicken, whose parents are only pairs of legs.

Literal drug addicts making your kids eye-food, then came the shock '00s
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