Disney: The Media Affect
01/10/2021
Many parents are more open with their children using a media device. For example, parents let their children have a tablet to keep them occupied while taking care of their tasks. More and more children have the newest technologies and applications already from a very young age.
But if you think about it, technology can bring some positive aspects, especially their motor skills and cognitive development.
And, you see it coming, it can as well have negative aspects. They could discover wrong messages and imagine some ideas for them.
They could have easy access to many movies without parental supervision and password. These movies offer the child to enter a world completely different from their own. The movie they watch can be quite entertaining as it is filled with action, spells, fights, singing and dancing, which allows the child to get involved as it catches their attention.
And, you see it coming, it can as well have negative aspects. They could discover wrong messages and imagine some ideas for them.
They could have easy access to many movies without parental supervision and password. These movies offer the child to enter a world completely different from their own. The movie they watch can be quite entertaining as it is filled with action, spells, fights, singing and dancing, which allows the child to get involved as it catches their attention.
Disney films and Children minds affect.
Disney's target audience is mostly young children. Still, it also entertains a wide range of audiences as well as whether parents should take an approach towards controlling what Disney films they let their child watch or not. And whether they should further explain the story and some cultural, historical, gender themes and information. Disney, in some movies, is creating ideologies and altering certain character representations (physical, cultural or historical).
The influence these movies have on young children may be positive or negative. Every movie has a different message.
Parents may criticize Disney movies for being harmful. But let's turn things around a bit. Movies, in general, could be harmful if the parents do not explain the concept portrayed in them.
Society and Gender roles
To a certain extent, Disney does create an ideological world. Still, having so many different movies with reoccurring themes and new additions allows children to see that the world is not one-dimensional. At the same time, parents must sit with their children and explain what they are watching not to have misunderstandings. That way, a child can improve their knowledge of various areas as well as their literacy.
However, society and media, such as Disney, stereotype various ethnicities. Typically within Disney movies, the men are handsome, powerful and strong. At the end of the movie, he is the hero. While the females are beautiful, petite, young and weak, they are also in need of rescuing and at the end of the movie, they dream of the perfect, big and happy wedding.
Gender roles have been stereotyped for years now. From birth, you would offer a blue or pink blanket based on their biological gender. Later, the children would play with toys associated with their gender due to gender role schema, for example, boys with cars and girls with dolls. As a role-playing, young boys would be firefighters, for example, and girls would-be princesses.
Children and their character development
Take the time and explain.
Children's minds are like sponges, they absorb everything, and they copy.
Children, from the age of six years old, have and strong and naïf visual learning development. Their experience, identity-building, cognitive, language, memory, conceptualization and problem-solving are in constant progress. Meaning that what children observe, they absorb and use this in their play, the way they talk and behave to copy and build their own character.
Children learn their native language and second language by watching television; however, they have no concept of learning. It is, therefore, important that parents need to guide them through what the child watches. It is not only to explain certain themes, characters, situations, ethnicities, and many other aspects but also to help them develop their own language and literacy. Whatever if it is right or wrong.
Communication can be different in many ways.
Children are active learners. What they see and hear, they remember and use it. There is quite a difference between children 20 years ago and children today, as there is a difference between Disney's first movies and movies that came out recently. Disney stereotypes each topic to continue with society's social norm and categorize their movies for children. Therefore parents should take the initiative to help their children with literacy by watching the shows with their children and explaining to them the vocabulary for the child to use appropriately instead of learning it alone and then having no idea what it means. Therefore parents should take the initiative to help their children with literacy by watching the shows with their children and explaining to them the vocabulary for the child to use appropriately instead of learning it alone and then having no idea what it means.
However, Disney has become more open to more races, ethnicities, and cultural backgrounds. And, they can see at school, with different children ethnicity, which allows children to learn about a different culture that is not their own. And, of course, learning as part of the school curriculum.
It is also important to the child to understand that what they are watching is a fantasy. That a teacup doesn't talk and jumping off the cliff after listening to the wind...it is fantasy!
The real world does not work that way, but with that said, there are certain aspects that Disney shows that is true to an extent.
While watching and answering the child's questions, parents are at a key moment of bonding and what they could create.
Disney movies are a source of entertainment for the whole family.