Parents: This is absolutely ridiculous. Agree or disagree?

Question

I have heard it said that the following Disney movies are inappropriate for children.

Bambi- "It is too tramatic because his mother dies."

Snow White- "She lived with seven men she wasn't married to."

The Little Mermaid- "She wore only a bra and she went to a witch to change what she was."

I am not kidding. One of my friends told me she was never allowed to watch those movies. Her mom is the one who said those things about them.

I find it absolutely ridiculous. I would like the opinion of parents.

Answer 1

In my opinion, watching these movies is a way for children to safely see that the world is not perfect. In Bambi, children learn the concept of death. Most of them don't really notice that anyway, or get over it quite easily. The other two movies, it depends on how strict of a parent you plan to be, or to put another way, how protective.



It is important to shield your kids from things they are not yet mature enough to handle, but if you are too protective, it may be to your kids' detriment because they don't understand certain things or it may cause them to be rebellious and expose themselves to a world which you are hiding from them.



In the end, it is your decision, and you should consider others' opinions, but form your own, too.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Yeah its ridiculous. I wasnt allowed to watch Aladdin, Jungle Book, A Bugs Life, Toy Story and stuff like that but my parents had no problem watching an R rated movie infront of me. Crazy right? I have 1 child and 1 on the way and they can watch Disney movies. It would be crazy to not let them. They're innocent childrens movies.

Answer 4

I'm pretty sure if you think about it long enough you could come up with an excuse why ANY movie, Disney or not, is "inappropriate for children." It's each parents' job to decide what is and is not appropriate for their child(ren) at what age. Personally, I'm of the school of thought that it isn't good to shelter your children too much.



Bambi-Life is traumatic. It's a parent's job to teach their child how to cope with unpleasant events. And everyone dies eventually.



Snow White-She wasn't married to any of them, but she also wasn't romantically involved with a single one of them. She behaved like their mother, or perhaps an older sister. I don't really see anything "inappropriate" here.



The Little Mermaid-and if the art was true to the original Little Mermaid legend she wouldn't even have been wearing a bra. And sure, she went to a witch to change what she was...but I think we all saw how that didn't work for her.

Answer 5

Don't forget when Aladdin buys the bong in the beginning of the movie. And the original cover of The Little Mermaid had a penis looking shape on the front.



We don't have many of the older movies, I haven't felt the need to buy them, but I don't object to them. I watched them all when I was little and turned out (almost) fine. My 3 year old daughter does love Beauty and the Beast though, she had to buy a backpack with her on it.

Answer 6

And Nemo is bad too. Don't forget Nemo.



I've met people like that. Personally I allowed my kids to watch these movies from when they were really little. Even at 18 months old my nephew understood the shark attacking Nemo's mom and dad was scary, but he wasn't traumatized. He just screamed OH NO and signed "scared." lol

Answer 7

That's nothing. Stuff on TV is way worse. Hard to watch anything put out for primetime on a major network without hearing sexual content, bad language or the like. Watch your Bambi.

Answer 8

Honestly, I don't think it is absolutely ridiculous. I would let my kids watch Bambi, but we don't watch the little mermaid or snow white anymore, not cause of those reasons, but cause of the witches. I just don't want my kids exposed to that stuff at the time. And it is my right as their mother to say so. Just like it was your friends mothers right to not let her watch those movies. TV and movies are way over rated and usually used as a baby sitter while mom is busy doing something else...sleeping...etc. I don't think that is right, but I am not gonna come on here and ridicule and talk mean about moms that do that. I have the right to never let my kids watch tv....I am their parent and God has given me authority over my kids, He has not given us the right to come on here, make fun of, ridicule, and belittle other mothers, but He has given us free will to do those things. And it is obvious here, that parents are choosing to do just that. Personally, I have too many downfalls of my own to spend my time saying what is ridiculous about other parents. I am not sure if you wanted your questions answered to make you feel better, it seems you are disturbed by your friends mother, maybe you think she is acting "holier than thou"; maybe she is, I don't know. But, it still does not make it right to come here and complain. When I was a child I watched whatever my family wanted to watch, except sex parts in movies. I remember watching all the Freddy Krueger movies, demons, poltergeist, etc. I have forgiven my parents for allowing me to watch all that stuff at a very young age and that is all that is needed. Has your friend forgiven her mother for not letting her watch these Disney movies? That is usually what Christians try to do and if she has then great, what else is there to say?

Answer 9

Yeah and barney is gay and so are bert and earnie and sponge bob and so on.. Some people will find things wrong on every single thing out there. As long as theres no sex or cursing or violence my kids can watch it. I ahvent shown them disney movies yet ( the old ones, like you listed) because wll the older two are boys and not too into princesses and my daughter is 4 and not really into longer than 30 minute shows.. one day :) I have nothing against them, or sponge bob, barney however, I dont care if hes gay or not but hes so annyoing we have had him banned in our house for a loooong time lol

Answer 10

There are some people who are so perverse in their own minds that they apply their perversions to perfectly innocent things. They are incapable of seeing things innocently because they themselves are so sick. I do not like Bambi also, for the same reason, but no one ever prevented me from seeing it, and no child would apply anything sexual to Snow White and the Dwarfs. How silly. But also I am German and as you know we have a lot of rather harsh and scary "fairy tales" from here, with wolfs eating people and witches cooking them in the oven etc. I did not ever pull any punch to say to my daughter, the reason you cannot go wander in the woods is because there are evil people in the world who will kill you for fun. There are not many of them but they exist and I'd rather have you alive than in a box. Maybe in other cultures is common to try to shield children from reality as it may taint their innocence.



The only Disney film of any note which I disapprove is the Princess and the Frog because something I am entirely against goes on in that film (and no it is not if she kiss a frog, haha).

Answer 11

Kids need to understand the difference between entertainment and real life, and 99.9% of them do. When Daffy duck gets squished they laugh, if a real duck on the highway did most kids would panic. My kids honestly watch pretty much whatever. Anything that isn't intentionally trying to use shock or brainwashing (I'd never let them watch 700 club except my son who's old enough to comprehend and form his own opinion.) With that said, I cried on The Lion King when I was about 8 or 9 but I wasn't traumatized. I also cried on Land Before Time, same thing. I know parents who only let their kids watch Christian cartoons. I mean it's sad to me but hey what can you do? They aren't your kids.

Answer 12

Agreed. And your friends mother is a prude.



I mean, come ON. What kid is even going to consider most of those things unless its brought to their attention. Yes kids are smart, but they wont walk away thinking "Wow, Snow white lived with 7 guys... what a sl-t."



Yeah right.

Answer 13

I think that is absurb and ridiculous. Children dont think like purvets and these movies actually have a moral my children love them and watch them like twenty times and they always say the moral to me and learn right from wrong.

Answer 14

Besides Bambi I think the rest are ridiculous. If a child is very young I suppose Bambi could upset them, buy at that age they wouldn't enjoy movies any way. It's crazy her mum didn't let her watch those, they're a part of everyones childhood.

Answer 15

Bambi IS traumatic. So is Old Yeller.



The others I don't have issues with, but I don't particularly like Disney movies, anyway.

Answer 16

Bullshiz.



The mother is a joke. They probably live in a shack down by the prairie, wearing their pioneer clothes and take a crap in their outhouse.

Answer 17

I bet my life that your friends' mother is/was an Evangelical Conservative Christian.

Answer 18

Well...children are too innocent to make anything of those inappropriate details so let them watch it won't influence them :)

Answer 19

agree. ridiculous. I'm literally laughing

Answer 20

Its just a DISNEY movie

Answer 21

well when i was young my mom didnt let me watch pokemon,yugioh,bayblade and didnt let me believe in santa claus , the easter bunny since she though they were evil and fake and they were witch craft :D

Answer 22

ha ha omg that is ridicules, they are Disney movies seriously

Answer 23

ridiculous....you can twist anything