I watch many shows with my family. After watching many shows, there needs to be a stop in child shows conditioning kids to su*cidal-empathy rather than learning logic, reason, critical thinking, learning to do things on their own, create things, be more creative, and learning things about the real world.
I recently watched a Russian cartoon for kids called Fiksiki (Fixies in the US). After watching many modern US cartoons I found this cartoon to teach much more values and things that were more useful to life compared to US cartoons and kid-shows in the US which are always emotional and catered more to the ‘girl-power’ or female empowerment demographic (related to modern feminist principles).
This policy is for more shows with US cartoons focusing on logic, reason, learning things about life, learning to build things, teaching kids to do things on their own, providing many positive values, practice critical thinking, and all while making watching cartoons fun, enjoyable, and sparking curiosity and imagination. The US needs kids cartoons that balances these values and gives kids memorable cartoons they want to watch over and over again.
Doing this will build positive foundations for kids and cater to a more fulfilling childhood and growth development. It’s important that these cartoons are creative, unique, and non-sterilized or filled with youth-ruining activism like many US cartoons.
Don’t rely on TV, especially cartoons, to teach these values. That’s YOUR job. We didn’t let our kids watch such stuff, and they grew up just fine: self-reliant, positive attitude, etc. Here is an example of how your idea can go wrong. Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood taught kids they were fine just as they are. He laid the groundwork for awarding every participant in an activity, no matter how lacking in merit their performance might be. He killed the impetus for excellence. But people loved his show. Is this what you want for your children? I doubt it. Those subtle messages are everywhere, and even if they “fix” things, the Powers That Be don’t want your children to think for themselves, and they have a whole team of very smart people up against you.
I don’t got kids. I take care of my family’s kids by being a baby sitter sometimes. The cartoons I watch with them don’t have much education quality, especially from 5 to 7 years of age. Maybe this policy can be to create grants to fund quality, fun, and captivating educational cartoons. Cartoons that teach and are just as addicting to watch. Cartoons that peak imagination, spark curiosity, and have kids want to be the characters and explore their universes.
In that case, you probably have little say over what they watch. But you can discuss your concerns with their parents. In general, I don’t think kids should be watching cartoons at all. Maybe along with an occasional movie in a theater, but not more. This site is for us to ask government to do something. I don’t think government has any business making cartoons for kids. The government should not be giving out grants with taxpayer money for anything the Constitution doesn’t authorize, and I find nothing in the Constitution that authorizes this. In fact, it was a long drawn out battle to get rid of government funding of NPR. Now that this has been accomplished, I think we should leave well enough alone. I sympathize with your goals, I just think it’s the wrong solution.
I was thinking since DEI in movies, games, and cartoons were created by policy, maybe cartoons can be changed or improved also throufh incentives, promotion, or influence. Also, if they give grants to african-americans to build media initiatives like shows, art, and games through all these foundations, corporations, and government grants then surely this can be used to make better cartoons.
Who is “they” that gives grants? The government has no constitutional role to give grants to anyone for this purpose. And government almost always gets it wrong. If government is giving grants, expect things to get worse. Children have no business watching so many cartoons, and becoming addicted to TV. You said you have no say, but parents should be making sure their children are doing healthy things. Watching TV isn’t one of them. An occasional nature program without evolution propaganda would be nice, but not much else.