Favorite Television Shows and How Kids Learn From Them

        Do you remember all those shows you watched when you was little? I sure do. There was the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Fraggle Rock, Gummy Bears, Alf, Smurfs, and of course, who could forget the Care Bears? These are just a few of the shows that the average eighteen through twenty year-old, or maybe even older people, of today watched when they were little.

        Care Bears has to be my favorite of the cartoons from when I was little, although in a close second would be Smurfs. Care Bears taught you how to share, be kind and love one another. I remember always watching Care Bears when I would get home from school. They would be flying around in their little red car, watching over the humans making sure that they was not hurting or upset. I actually looked up when I was angry to see if they was going to come and help me through it all. Unfortuantely they were never there.

        Share Bear taught me how to share my things, mainly my toys with the neighbor kids. They taught me not to get mad over little things and to think things through before getting upset. Champ Bear taught me to be a champ in all situations, whether it be sports or any other activity. 

        Friendship Bear taught me to make friends with everyone. He also taught me to be friendly even when they were not friendly to me. Friendship Bear never got mad at his friends and he always said that you could not have too many friends, so go out and make some more.

        Braveheart Lion, now he was the greatest character. He was not afraid of anything. He taught me to sleep without a night-light. I was not afraid of the dark thanks to him. 

        Cheer Bear was never sad, even when everyone else was. Although the Care Bears were not ever really sad. Cheer Bear always brought a smile to my face, even though something sad was happening on the television. Cheer always cheered up the sad little boys and girls on the show that had lost something or someone. 

        Now we have Grams Bear who took care of baby hugs and tugs, she told stories at bed time to them and did all the grandma things. I had my grandma do what she did in the show. My grams read me stories at bedtime and sang to me when I was sad, just like Grams on Care Bears.

        But you see there was some bad on the Care Bears also. Every television show has their bad guys. On here it was Beastly, quite an ugly creature if you ask me, he was very scary. You also have Cloud Keeper, No Heart, who always was with Beastly causing trouble. Over all these characters though was Professor Cold Heart, and whenever they did something wrong or failed at something they were to do, Professor Cold Heart got angry at them and was mean to them. So this is an example of how good shows have some kind of bad in them.

        If you monitored everything your child watches, you will find that every good show also has its bad parts. See Care Bears taught me a lot of good qualities, but yet they had their bad guys on the show. 

        Every good show is going to have bad in it. That is just how the world works. People in the world make television shows and therefore they put what they are used to seeing in shows. If all kids watched was action movies, I believe that there would be a lot more violence in the world today. Even though a lot of the cartoons today are very violent. I think that the cartoon makers need to go back to the way cartoons are to be, like when we were kids kind of cartoons. If all people see is violence then that is all they are going to know. Kids should watch shows that show things like the Care Bears did. Even though the Care Bears sound a little feminine and all they taught me and I am sure some other kids how to be kind and curteious. 

        So I think that what the kids today really need is shows that show kindness, and how to be curteous. They do not need all these violent shows that they watch. They need to learn how to tell the difference in imaginary and real life. Just because the cartoon character got shot and lived does not mean that you can shoot the neighbor kid and he will live. Cartoons are fake and kids today need to realize that. Children today need to be more monitored on what they get to watch.