Children SHOULD watch Disney?

Question

I am doing a persuasive paper on Why children should watch Disney movies. I watched Disney movies while I was growing up and I intend to let my children watch them while they are growing up. I have found lots of people who do not let their children watch Disney movies and I just don't agree, besides personal beliefs I need some more reasons why children SHOULD watch Disney movies. Please don't leave answers telling me why not to watch them. I got all that info. Thanks

Answer 1

We learn the value of friendship, that you are never alone and that you have help, that real love can be found, that good can triumph over evil and that you may have to sacrifice in order to get what you truly desire.

Answer 2

Disney movies started before my time. I remember watching them, and then discussing them with my parents. ex. Pollyanna,Old Yeller, Steamboat Willie. I now get the same opportunity with my children. It is Quality time spent together as a family. I remember when there was a different Disney movie on every Sunday, and as a family, we all watched it together. This was the ONLY family time in our home.

Answer 3

lol proablaby becase there is alot of funny things on them like the priest in ariel had a ***** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InFLnzeQj... and things like that maybe but i never like them so if your kids want to why not but they wont get whats going on.

Answer 4

Disney has had the ability to create so many magical worlds through music, breath taking scenarios, and characters.  The stories that have been told over the years have not only provided entertainment, Adventures into imagination of young and old, but in my opinion there has always been something to take away from each movie.  The musical score is always phenomenal, the characters full of life, and the worlds so breathe taking.

In today’s world innocence is taken away from our children at such an early age.  Santa Claus, Easter Bunny (who I believe now has to be called the “white rabbit”) and even The Tooth Fairy.  What is the rush to take it away from our children, Disney allows to happen every time that DVD starts to play.

My daughter just turned 3 and we are heading to WDW next year.  Even just by ordering the Disney Vacation Planning DVD it captures her mind.  Please don't take this the wrong way, but no matter what they do it is geared so the children are geared into what is going on.  This is a good thing.

Disney allows kids to use their imagination something a lot of kid’s don’t do anymore as well.  Obviously by watching a movie it will keep them in front of the tv.  Hopefully it will inspire them to read books, go play outside, or just do other things to become active rather than play video games.

Sorry if it bounces a bit off what you asked but point blank Disney movies are great they offer a great musical score, phenomenally done,  characters that provide morals and values to children, positive role models to children, and as I said there is always meaning behind all of the movies.

Hope this is helpful in some way or the other.

Answer 5

Its a personal choice. Your child won't be damaged either way. There's no facts to support any view.  

Answer 6

Cause it teaches kid's important life lessons.

Answer 7

Because Disney updates and censors fairy tales so that they are more appropriate for children.  Disney's fairy tales provide us a modern-day tinge on these old fairy tales derived from ancient literature.  Watching a Disney movie is a lot better (and less gruesome and gory) than reading the kid the actual fairy tale.

For example, in the original Sleeping Beauty story (the one before the Grimms shortened version came out), after the prince woke up Sleeping Beauty, he took her to his palace.  His mother was an ogre and she tried to eat the Prince's children as well as Sleeping Beauty.  The Grimms brothers tried to make the original stories less gruesome and more censored than the actual ones handed down from mouth to mouth, but some stories like "Hansel and Gretel" and "Little Red Riding Hood" slip through the cracks, where you have canabalism and wolves eating people. (In the original Little Red, there was no woodsman....)

Also, you can learn about literature from Disney.  "The Lion King" was based off of Shakespeare's Hamlet.  Disney can help simplify for kids plots that in other formats, would prove difficult for them.  For example, both Bambi and Dumbo cope with the reality of losing or being separated from a parent.  Watching it and being able to relate to it might help kids who have to go through similar situations.

And you can get kids interested in history (Pochontas, Mulan, ect.), and this will allow them to compare what really happened in real life and why Disney changed it to make it a better story.

Also, Disney is such an important part of American's pop culture.  Most people have heard of the phrases "When I see an elephant fly" or "Don't lie, or your nose will grow!"  If kids don't know Disney, they might not understand the origins or the meanings of such phrases.  They'll feel out of the loop.

Well, have a zip-it-dee-doo-dah day! ;)

Answer 8

Because they are important parts of our culture, and when your kids are growing up and all the other kids talk about the Pocahontas film, and your kids don't understand what on Earth they are talking about, it'll suck.