[blackbird]

Has anyone actually sat down with their kids and watched this stuff? the bad guy is the kids dad? my oldest (5) got a ningago DVD, his school friends had been raving about it so I thought it was ok, till I watched it, no wonder the school is having trouble with all the under 7 boys "fighting" and now my DS1 tells me he doesn't like his dad anymore which is the opposite of he normally says. And dont get me started about the spinning!

Its not quite as bad as the Iron man cartoon at least, both my sons 4 and 5, would lay into each other after watching that. Banned!

Normally my ds's don't watch commercial TV so they never knew about those shows but with school and kindy they come home talking abut all this fighting stuff *sigh* is that all there is for boys?

After having some attention problems (toys not good enough, swing sets growing spider webs and zombie to terror like behavior and demands of angry birds) I have banned TV and all 'stare at screen' type devices.

Its day two...

the toys and being dusted off, and left every where :s , we had a small fall off the swing set and the spiders are running scared in the cubby house it was tempting to turn on the box to bribe them to eat dinner but I pulled the "eat or go to bed" tactic and that worked

Still working on the getting them sleep before 9 pm thing but its on the hit list

"please excuse grammar and spelling, we haven't had any TV time for two days!!"

This post has been edited by blackbird: 27/11/2012, 08:30 PM

[peking homunculu...]

The bad guy is Lord Garmadon and yes he is Lloyd's dad. He i also Sensai Wu's brother. He was good and then as a teenager was bitten by one of the bad guy snakes and this turned him bad. He managed to fight off the venom for a while and worked with Sensai Wu and the 4 Ninja's to fight the snakes.

I don't mind Ninjago. My 7 and 2 year old boys love it and they play Ninja's together all the time. This mainly involves then spinning around until they fall down and fighting imaginary snakes in the backyard.

[peking homunculu...]

A big part ofthe story line is that the Ninja's have to "find their true potential". This involves them searching in themselves and finding the good special things about themselves. Once they are self actualised, their Ninja powers increase.

It is not just a fighting show

[-*meh*-]

meh my boys watch it (although they prefer the clutch powers one)...

they know they aren't allow to fight, but they also do karate so they are taught there about no using their training to fight.

[Chocolate Addict]

I have no problem with ninjago. My 7yo loves it, pretends to be a ninja etc.. but knows it is just pretend and is not allowed to connect when playing ninjas etc..

I haven't watched the shows but we do have some of the books and I have read them.

I doubt the makers of Lego would make anything non kid friendly.

I am not sure why you would ban TV. The kids will play in the playground with other kids that know what is going on. My kid, to the best of my knowledge has never seen a show with guns, we don't have guns yet he uses his hands to make guns or uses lego to do it.

This post has been edited by Chocolate Addict: 27/11/2012, 08:55 PM

[lsolaBella]

Meh I have no issues with it. My boys don't ninjago fight.

Star Wars the padawan menace and the empire strikes out are big hits here.

Eta boys are 5& 7 but have been watching ninjago for over a year.



This post has been edited by lsolaBella: 27/11/2012, 08:56 PM

[jayskette]

surely kids of this age would know that TV shows do not represent reality?

[Broxie]

You banned all screen time because you don't like 1 show?

[wallofdodo]

Gah, I wish more parents at my son's daycare would check what their kids watch. They play really rough, and watch, Ben ten, Iron Man, ninjago. My son, still only watches ABC for kids. He has become quite rough an the last few months. I have wondered if there is a connection.

These are 3-4 yr olds, some have older siblings, but most don't.

[peking homunculu...]

My almost 3 year old son complains about the other boys at daycare being too rough- they hit and push. DS watches Ion Man, Ninjago and Ben 10 yet he is never violent; he plays with the girls because the boys are so rough.

I'm not so sure you can just blame TV for boys being rough