Brennan, my almost five year old son, for whatever reason has discovered and fallen in love with Strawberry Shortcake. Watching him enjoying movies and TV shows that I loved as a child has been so much fun, however, I have a big bone to pick with all of these updated characters.
Let's look at the Strawberry Shortcake that I knew and loved. I loved her so much that I bought my mom a Strawberry Shortcake video tape for her birthday when I was four years old. (Okay when I say, "I bought" I meant my dad bought.) Now, she's "updated" and, well, really pretty! What about the younger looking Strawberry who was more like me as I was a child? I don't have any qualms with bringing back classic TV characters but why do we have to update them?
We have everything from Littlest Pet Shop (one of my sister's favorites) to the ever changing and popular Barbie. These characters are brilliant but in order for them to sustain popularity with today's kids perhaps they need a new look? Or maybe the new look is geared towards us, the parents, the keepers of those dollars? Whatever the case, there's one character that hasn't seemed to make a comeback in a new updated version and I have to admit that I'm happy about that. Who is it? It's my favorite, Rainbow Brite. She hasn't seemed to attract the attention of modern day toy makers and I'm more than okay with that. Look at her? She's so sweet! I've seen some "updated" versions of her and I don't know, she's way too grown up for my taste. Oh and don't even get me started on the horror that is Pluto, the star, not the planet.
I don’t like these changes at all! Suddenly all the characters have gone from little kid like to tweens. Our kids are growing up to fast as it is!
the new ninja turtles is one of those updated one’s I don’t like :-\
Daniel Tiger…aka Mr. Rogers! I was SO not ready to like Daniel Tiger because well, they CHANGED everything I loved about Mr. Rogers. But finally giving in and watching a few of the episodes and watching my children respond positively, I must admit that I actually like the show. It isn’t the same as the good old Mr. Rogers but it teaches similar values and I like that since that is SO hard to find today. All in all…if you haven’t given Daniel Tiger a try it really is worth a watch.
I also plan to buy older dvd’s of shows. The kids I nannied watched Caillou… that is the whiniest child, I cannot stand to watch it and I don’t want my kids watching it, no matter what kind of lessons he learns.
I don’t like it either. I also don’t like the cartoons kids watch nowadays. My husband and I are buying the older cartoons’ DVDs so our kids can watch those when they’re older instead of today’s cartoons.
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