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RhA wrote:

Dean ML wrote:

RAcast wrote:

Flakmaster wrote:Also, another thing: Since when did Hasbro and their writers think it a good idea to make the original kid-friendly Bumblebee a combat-hardened, mute, machine mass-murderer?
I wouldn't want to imagine myself as his sidekick or imagine myself as him.

I would assume because that's the perception of what kids want. With the younger audience being interested in things they have no right being interested in (such as CoD and other games that should be too mature for them), that's what manufacturers see.

In other words, bad parenting is making everything worse for everyone.

I agree 100%. As a teacher, I see first hand the impact that bad parenting or the lack of impacting altogether has on children. They are exposed to far too much.

So what would you say is right for children? Surely, neither of you would ever do something that could be labeled 'bad parenting' in someone else's eyes.

Your sarcasm is noted, but my point is that parental involvement and guidance is what's right for children. And, yes, some things are simply not meant for younger children. I'm not saying that TFs are the downfall of today's youth, in fact I think the fair and reserved OP of TF: Prime, who values wisdom, is not a bad role model for kids, but children are becoming more and more desensitized to sex and violence while having less and less parental parental involvement to help them make good choices and give them the attention, affection, and love that kids need. As a 5th grade teacher I shouldn't have to deal with boys bringing knives to school and girls getting pregnant. Sadly, I do.

Dean ML wrote:

RhA wrote:

Dean ML wrote:

RAcast wrote:

Flakmaster wrote:Also, another thing: Since when did Hasbro and their writers think it a good idea to make the original kid-friendly Bumblebee a combat-hardened, mute, machine mass-murderer?
I wouldn't want to imagine myself as his sidekick or imagine myself as him.

I would assume because that's the perception of what kids want. With the younger audience being interested in things they have no right being interested in (such as CoD and other games that should be too mature for them), that's what manufacturers see.

In other words, bad parenting is making everything worse for everyone.

I agree 100%. As a teacher, I see first hand the impact that bad parenting or the lack of impacting altogether has on children. They are exposed to far too much.

So what would you say is right for children? Surely, neither of you would ever do something that could be labeled 'bad parenting' in someone else's eyes.

Your sarcasm is noted, but my point is that parental involvement and guidance is what's right for children. And, yes, some things are simply not meant for younger children. I'm not saying that TFs are the downfall of today's youth, in fact I think the fair and reserved OP of TF: Prime, who values wisdom, is not a bad role model for kids, but children are becoming more and more desensitized to sex and violence while having less and less parental parental involvement to help them make good choices and give them the attention, affection, and love that kids need. As a 5th grade teacher I shouldn't have to deal with boys bringing knives to school and girls getting pregnant. Sadly, I do.

I agree on the desensitizing. You can't drive a car on the highway without nekkid chiks glaring at you, ordering you to buy something.

I don't think that puts knives in hands or gets people pregnant. Not that in itself, cultures are just too complex to blame media alone. Even if western culture is highly commercial.

The kids in classes I teach do not carry knives or contain pregnant women.

RhA wrote:I agree on the desensitizing. You can't drive a car on the highway without nekkid chiks glaring at you, ordering you to buy something.

I don't think that puts knives in hands or gets people pregnant. Not that in itself, cultures are just too complex to blame media alone. Even if western culture is highly commercial.

The kids in classes I teach do not carry knives or contain pregnant women.

Exactly, and that's where parental influence makes the difference. Don't misunderstand, there are more factors than just the media and parenting, but currently those are two very significant factors.

RhA wrote:The kids in classes I teach do not carry knives or contain pregnant women.

I sure hope not. I doubt they'd even fit in the kid's cassette bays.