Hi All,

My neice's 2nd birthday just passed and I got her a Hello Kitty DVD.  Her mother will not let her watch it as she deemed it too violent.  I'am like WTH? Sorry, but it was made for 2 year olds and even says it on the box. My niece watchs baby Einstein all the time.  Sometimes she watches Dora or Bear in the blue house.  But i'm flabbergasted!  Hello Kitty violent??  She did see the DVD ( her father played it when her Mum was not home)  and loved it, what can I do...?   :'( :'( :'(

That's like saying Mr. Rogers is violent!  Sorry,but I don't mean to be sarcastic :o  With all the sex,violence and other garbage kids and toddlers are exposed to on T.V.,Hello,Kitty is NOT is that category.  I've not watched an episode,but do know that it is "kid friendly"  Maybe she should sit and watch it with you or her husband.

Has she even seen it?  Maybe she's under the impression that all "anime" is violent   ::)  and has dismissed it out of hand.  I'd actually prefer my nephew watch Hello Kitty rather than Barney, but that's more of a taste issue.   8)

Curlgirl64 13bodies - I don't know if her Mum has seen the cartoon or not, but tomorrow I am babysitting again and will find out the problem is. :-/

Yea I would rather have my child watch "Hello Kitty" than Barney (I think teh accessories are cute too). Barney is too...silly and fake in a way. Now I love childrens stories and fairy tales, but Barney seems to be just plain old unbelievable. No one loves everybody that much on Earth -_-. I can understand what you mean by "taste." I've also noticed that children raise don Barney seem to grow upthe same as any child...so Barney didn't teach much. Why not Winne tthe Pooh? At leats that has an actual story polt in every episode and its just so more artistic and charming. I think that if you can;t listen to the stories or wtach teh shows your kids do...then the shows are too cheesy. Think about it...grow-up can listen to fairy tales and alot of them don't get bored. They like it. So how come we watch Barney and we want to throw up from all the corn? We need to change childrens programming a bit. Like maybe make more shows like Winnie the Pooh or something fairy tale based. Those usually have a lesson besides loving everyone. People accuse fairytale sof being to unrealistic...but atcually the stories are quite "real world" as far as people doing bad things to others  things and overcoming hardships. You even see some straneg grim stuff in some and sually a good ending (sometimes a sad one..but isn't that life)?Since when did Barney do that???  No wonder many children nowadays  can;t sit still..thy're watching simplistic flashy stuff...

Sara oh I hate Barney http://smilies.sofrayt.com/1/n/greenpuke.gif  and I'm happy she doesn't watch it.


What I think is her mother is trying to protect her.  Little Morgan hasn't really watched TV only educational DVD's.  The family knows I watch Anime(japanese cartoons), some are pretty violent.  But I would never show that to Morgan at her age.  Her mother is a teacher for preschool and I think she's just overoading her with info.  Me and her Grandmother think she should slow down a bit in our opinon.

Okay, I got home a little while ago.  I watched the DVD and found it to be just fine.  Morgan liked it. I was hurt cause she had gotten other DVD's that are violent and over her age limit and her Mother did not hide those from her like she did with Hello Kitty.  I did not confront her mother as she is an impossable women. Oh well.... :P

Sometimes the best thing to do is do nothing at all.  In this case,your silence gives you calm and hopefully no aggravation...I hope

wrote on Apr 9^th, 2006 at 9:39pm:

Sometimes the best thing to do is do nothing at all.  In this case,your silence gives you calm and hopefully no aggravation...I hope

Yes it did as she would have started a big fight.  Not to worry, Morgan can watch it at my house. http://smilies.sofrayt.com/aiw/tongue.gif

Although i have never watched Hello Kitty, it doesnt seem so bad from what i hear. hopefully things work out for the best. if i recieved the gift i would have just said thankyou and thats that. ppl dont complain when they recieve a gift. >:(  thats not good recieving gift etiquette. ::) Its not your problem its obviously hers.

I've never heard any parents complain about Hello Kitty being a violent cartoon.  It is rather strange that she would have this opinion of it.  It might be helpful to approach her on why she has this concern - not from a defensive point of view, but more as a concerned adult.  Is there something about the cartoon that you are not aware of?  Is it a subliminal message that concerns her?  Trying to open up the dialog might help you to better understand where she is coming from and at the same time she might realize she is wrong about Hello Kitty (has it confused with something else?).

I was surprised to hear that someone would say the cartoon is violent.  So I tried to find a clip of the show on the web, to no avail.  But I did find a review on Amazon - I don't know if it's the series that you bought.  Maybe she read these reviews

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00006SFIQ/104-2439877-7596768?v=glance&n=130

Apparently there is a "scary witch scene".  hrmm...  Tom and Jerry and Bug's Bunny were probably much more violent and look how we turned out.  We're juuuusssstt  fiiinnnneeee.;)

Curlygirl22, bikerbraid, khrome  Thank you for your support :) I was really hurt to tell the truth but I now I realise it was her not me.

Yeah, I think she is being way overprotective.  2 years old is an impressionable age.  My niece is 2 and my mom says when she took care of her she didn't used to want to eat her carrots.  And my mom said to her "well Peter Cottontail eats carrots!"  And since then carrots have become my niece's favorite snack.  

So instead of trying to shield her child, your friend could use the video as tool to teach simple concepts like "what a mean witch!  She shouldn't try to eat Hello Kitty for dinner.  That's bad!"  A child won't know enough to debate it - they just accept it.  Kind of like how my niece will repeat that carrots are good for you because Peter Cottontail eats them.  ;)

Hi Cynde,  Yes my sister-in-law is very overprotective.  It's sad cause I would like little Morgan to enjoy the cartoons I use to watch.  When she's older I would love to get her into Sailor Moon of which I am a huge fan. ::)

Yea! I miss Sailor Moon and saw some of the Japanese(English subtitles) episodes. I notice that they change the eyes for the american version..making them more round...whats that about. You can be American and have big almond shaped eyes too like me :P. Anyways! I think the Japanese version is better in some ways.

wrote on Apr 14^th, 2006 at 11:46pm:

Yea! I miss Sailor Moon and saw some of the Japanese(English subtitles) episodes. I notice that they change the eyes for the american version..making them more round...whats that about. You can be American and have big almond shaped eyes too like me :P. Anyways! I think the Japanese version is better in some ways.

Hi Sara!

Yes the eyes are different as they are drawn like in the manga books.  They do the same with Inuyasha for the movies.  The Japanese verisons have not been cut so the story flows alot better. 8)

Hey Lisabelle

When i saw this post i cracked up.  I asked myself can  "hello kitty" really be violent ? I had to read, i thought perhaps one character had knocked the other over the head or some tom and jerry foolishness but, alass nothing so great, lol

Anyway, My stepdaughter loves hello kitty, she's never watched the cartoon, as we don't watch tv in our house. But, hello kitty is a cute lil something. However, if mom thinks miss kitty and her pretty pink bow should be banned, I would just give in and respect her wishes. Dispite, the fact that mom my be being over protective, i think she'd be madder than mad if she found out you let her daughter watch it.   When parents say no for their children they take it as an obvious attack against their abilities as raising their child incorrectly when someone goes against their wishes.

And, with children things  that we do can easily slip out. Just opt on another cartoon. And, tell your sister you know such and such asked to see the cartoon while over with my daughter and I had to tell her no. She knows i gave the cartoon to her as a gift and it hurt my feelings that she couldn't see it. Why do you think the cartoon is violent?something along those lines... where you come off innocent in questioning it and that you hold no opinion of your own against her decision. to get to the bottom of why she actually thinks it violent.

Her blowing a gassket over your questioning would be better than her blowing one because she found out you were letting her daughter watch it anyway. I know what your dealing with, i have a sister who if you question the slightest thing will get upset and if loosing the arguement (I mean family friendly debate) will begin to CRY?!?  sigh that's my slice of info



ummabbaas

Hi ummabbaas!

I know its strange, my sister in law is the way she is. I wish I could talk to her but she's a know it all.  Hubby and I think its sad how she's bringing Morgan up but there nothing we can do. She's a very self centered person and doesn't even get along with her mother. :P Thanks for the advise thought. ;D