Not just a cartoon

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It would seem, what could be wrong with a cartoon? After all, the cartoon is created especially for kids and should only contain positive energy. It's simple. Of course, it should be so, but in reality everything is diametrically opposite. As the child grows up, a lot of questions arise before the parents. How to raise a child correctly? How to explain what is what, directing to the true path? After all, it is in childhood that the basic foundation is laid for the full formation of a personality and growing up. How to protect him from evil, aggression and vulgarity that fill our world? It is good if the child does not give in to provocations and does not feel the slightest interest in what is so terrible for the child's psyche, health and the development of moral, moral qualities. Then it is enough to simply explain everything once. But it happens that the situation is completely different. What to do in this case, how to cope with it? TV as a source of negative emotions and false priorities: tight control or even exclusion? All these questions arise constantly, only the age of the baby changes.

About twenty years ago, the issue of choosing cartoons was not so worried about parents: the number of foreign ones was limited to a minimum, or even completely excluded from the show, and in general there was no such dominance of cruelty, vulgarity, aggression on television. All this was controlled quite categorically. Of course, this has its pros and cons, but with regard to children's cartoons, the advantages are obvious. For some reason, freedom of speech, freedom of the press and democracy are confused with anarchy and permissiveness. Nowadays, the promotion of early sexual development, aggression and evil is called a loud phrase - liberal views. Some parents believe that in this way they will better “prepare” the child for adulthood.

Children's cartoon should be kind, funny and a little instructive, forming the fundamental concepts of morality and ethics. In a word, after watching it, the baby's normal reaction is laughter, joy and good mood, discussion of impressions and application of the experience. A number of psychologists and authors of books on psychology claim that smiling and laughter have a positive effect on both psychological and physical health. Laughter stimulates the body's production of natural pain relievers and mood hormones. During laughter, the so-called "happiness" hormones - endorphins - appear in the brain. They are chemically similar to morphine and heroin and have a calming effect on the human body while stimulating the immune system at the same time. One minute of healthy laughter provides relaxation for the next forty-five minutes. Laughing for a long time gives the body a physical activity comparable to ten minutes of sports.

One very interesting experiment was carried out. Participants in the experiment were asked to frown, smile or maintain an indifferent expression depending on what they saw in front of them. Sometimes they were asked to try to express a feeling that was the opposite of what they saw in the picture. As a result, it turned out that the participants in the experiment did not have full control of the facial muscles. While it was not difficult to frown at the sight of an angry man, it was much more difficult to smile in the same situation. The muscles unconsciously copied the expression seen in the picture, despite the fact that people tried to behave differently. In other words, consciously or unconsciously, but a person automatically copies the facial expression that he sees in front of him. You ask, "What does this have to do with cartoons?" The most direct! Children are open and kind creatures and absorb everything like a sponge. Now imagine what a little man can experience after forty minutes of watching a cartoon, the main idea of which is a fight, battle, chase, transformation into mutants and monsters, blood, explosions and other "delights"? Why should little children's ears listen to the abuse and insults that cartoon characters shower each other with? Of course, a lot depends on the translation, but in principle, what kind of content is such a translation. What kind of healthy smile and laughter can we talk about? What is informative and instructive in all this? Such viewing can only "enrich" the child's vocabulary with obscene expressions, develop feelings such as anger and aggression. An adult, mentally healthy person - and he will feel dislike from what he saw and heard. After this, one should not be surprised by the appearance of fear of the dark, fear of being alone, cruelty in the game and aggressive behavior in life, and many other "results." As mentioned above, in addition to the negative emotions that such a cartoon pours out on the child, the baby will unconsciously copy the expressions on the faces of the characters, and, what good, will decide in the game to be like one of them, which very often happens.

To be convinced of this, it is enough just to carefully observe the playing children, for example, on the playground in the yard. Undoubtedly, I'm talking about foreign cartoons. There is no trace of such aggression in our domestic cartoons. Baba Yaga, Koschey the Immortal, the Serpent Gorynych and the Wolf "rest" in comparison with foreign monsters-freaks depicting either a spider-man, or a vampire-octopus with luminous eyes or the ruler of the afterlife and a river of longing in which the dead or little men swim - ugly people with a lack of moral values. This is not a fictional example, but a very specific one from real life: "Anime" is a fashionable innovation, "South Park", which are shown on the music channel, the well-known Disney "Hercules". There are hundreds of examples. Of course, "Disney" cartoons are bright and colorful. They are interesting to watch not only for children, but also for adults. I myself watched them with pleasure during pregnancy, but still it seems to me that these cartoons are intended for older children, when such concepts as "compassion", "pity", "good" and "evil" have already been formed. Eventually. Our good old cartoons are perfect for their formation. The same, well-known "Winnie the Pooh". Even "Well, wait a minute." A funny cartoon that always ends well, and in the meantime, compassion and pity are formed in the child. In addition to cartoons, there are also our old fairy-tale films. There are many wonderful children's cartoons and films, but, unfortunately, very few of them are shown on television compared to evil foreign cartoons and animated series. And the most famous children's program "Good night, Kids!", Funny to say, now only runs for five minutes.

The only good news is that the video market is currently overcrowded, and there is plenty to choose from cartoons or fairy tales and watch them whenever and as much as necessary. On DVD, you can buy several at once and, in addition, a lot of viewing pleasure. In addition, things are not even bad on the Russian animation market. In recent years, new cartoons have appeared, created using modern technologies. They are distinguished by a brilliance close to Disney's and, fortunately, retain the kindness, humorous flavor and instructiveness characteristic of our national animation. For example, "New Bremen Town Musicians" and "Alyosha Popovich and Tugarin Serpent". As for American cartoons and animated series, more reminiscent of a horror or action movie, then this simply should not exist either on the screen, or on the market, or at the box office. What is left to do while all this horror flourishes? Protect your children from watching corrupting cartoons and programs and hope that in the near future this huge problem will be paid attention to.

In the same way, like many foreign toys, aggressive cartoons carry very dangerous goals, on the implementation of which many psychologists and creators of such "developmental" cartoons are "working", although, in my opinion, it is simply blasphemous to call such squalor "cartoons" stupid. Corruption of the younger generation, total degradation of youth, replacement of the concepts of "good" and "evil", "beautiful" and "ugly", "scary", "good" and "bad", goals. Sadly, but not all parents seriously think about this problem, considering it far-fetched. You don't have to go far for an example. In the playground, dad plays with his five-year-old son. The boy swings his sword over his father's neck, laughs and joyfully shouts: "I cut off your head!" Both parents smile sweetly: “Clever, sonny, oh, what a wonderful game!”. Comments are superfluous. On the face of it, there is no fear of breaking two commandments at once - respect for parents and murder. Someone will object: "Well, this is a game!" During the game, the child imagines himself as one character or another, so he must understand that such actions and phrases are not permissible under any circumstances, otherwise he will think that this is “good” and “possible” and there is nothing wrong with that.

It's not a secret for anyone that computer shooting games are no less dangerous. The technique has evolved to such an extent that the game is very similar to reality. Most recently, the media highlighted a case when an adult man, under the influence of such games, committed a terrible cruel crime directed against a person and faith. What can we say about the fragile child's psyche, which is already overloaded ?! An example of this is seemingly harmless entertainment at first glance: a child runs around the playground and "shoots" at everyone indiscriminately, to enhance the effect, throws sand into the air, and, a few minutes later, runs up to a young pregnant woman passing by and puts a toy weapon close to her back. This is also an example from life. Of course, a lot depends on parents and upbringing, but, I repeat, not everyone is aware of the serious nature of the problem and does not attach much importance to it.

Not only cartoons and computer games are filled with such negativity. Advertising can also be attributed to it. Is the image of skeletons in yogurt ads a mocking joke? If I were a child, I would categorically refuse to eat a product with such advertising, unless on pain of hunger. And many children happily agree, and at the same time participate in various actions, collecting labels. It turns out that the skeleton is clearly not the kindest image, always symbolizing death and evil, migrating into a number of funny and funny, even kind ones. In a word, the concepts of "good" and "evil" are being replaced. Entertainment music channels have an older audience. Teenagers - "teenagers", for the most part, watch them. Recently, on these channels you can often see cartoons, sometimes ours are wonderful, to which there can be no questions, and sometimes foreign ones, which are disastrous for the child's psyche, and are simply disgusting for a normal adult. Some of the above examples of such cartoons can often be found on music channels. And in addition to the cartoon at the bottom of the screen, a sentence: "Send SMS to the number and learn to kiss!" Is this compatible with a kids show? Another question is no less pertinent: what does advertising and programs of a sexual nature have to do with music ?! Some of them are, well, a direct course of introduction to sex life: what, where and why, and most importantly how. Just a guide to action. Considering that the general mass of the audience is young, appropriate conclusions can be drawn. What kind of purity and purity, innocence and love are there?

Many reality shows can easily be attributed to the same category: they are characterized by debauchery, permissiveness and lack of morality and ethics. In conclusion, I would like to add that I do not understand how many can calmly react to such programs, advertisements, shows and cartoons. There must be a limit in everything, a reasonable border. And it turns out that this border has been erased and "spattered" along with all the fundamental concepts that distinguish a person from an animal, and instead came new ones - inverted and devalued.

To solve this problem, in my opinion, is possible only by legislative means, because until the propaganda of vulgarity, depravity, lack of morality, violence, aggression and evil is prohibited, television will “feed” us with this muck. People who understand the seriousness of this problem will avoid watching such programs, and by all means protect their children from this, explaining what's what and, instilling in them kindness and compassion. Those who have not realized what is happening will continue to drown in the mud of the Western sex industry, which begins to corrupt minds and bodies, turn good hearts into evil ones and replace life concepts of honor and dignity from childhood, wishing for degradation and moral death. to our people.

Think about it, because their children go to boarding schools, and many Western celebrities are firmly convinced that letting their children watch TV is not at all worth it. And our television is flooded with disgusting Western cartoons, as well as programs and reality shows that are created as a complete imitation of exactly the same foreign shows, while neither one nor the other, in fact, carry nothing positive in themselves. I will repeat myself, saying, a very simple and familiar phrase that children are our future and it depends on how we bring them up …

Date of publication 18.10.2006

Article author: Angelina Golovina