I spent my career in tech, but wasn’t prepared for its effect on my kids

Re:I spent my career in tech, but wasn’t prepared for its ef... by sn9 on Thursday August 24, 2017 @08:40PM (#15095261)

Speaking as someone who grew up without cable in the 90s, there was a ton of great content in that era and the quality took a huge hit in the 2000s and later.

We had shows like X-Men which tackled issues like racism and prejudice, Captain Planet which tackled pollution and environmental stewardship, shows like Gargoyles that introduced mythology and Shakespeare and treated kids like intelligent human beings, Animaniacs which introduced a generation to the Vaudeville tradition of humor, The Magic School Bus which taught children all sorts of facts about the world, etc.

I could honestly go on and on but there was just a ton of great content for kids in the 90s (on network television alone!).

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Re:I spent my career in tech, but wasn’t prepared for its ef... by knz on Thursday August 24, 2017 @08:58PM (#15095356)

And kids today have shows like Daniel Tiger, Wild Kratts, SciGirls, Octonauts, Sid the Science Kid, Dinosaur Train, new Sesame Street, Word Girl, and access to the entire catalog of many of the shows you mentioned. They also have far greater access to educational content about science etc via YouTube than most kids had in the 80's/90's.

Good content is still being made, the parents just have to choose to consume it!

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Re:I spent my career in tech, but wasn’t prepared for its ef... by sn9 on Thursday August 24, 2017 @11:17PM (#15095865)

To be fair, those are mostly (entirely?) PBS shows, and PBS has always been a haven for great educational content.

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Re:I spent my career in tech, but wasn’t prepared for its ef... by knz on Thursday August 24, 2017 @11:39PM (#15095935)

Good point. Octonauts is Disney but the rest are PBS.

That type of content has never been more accessible (the PBS kids app is great).

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Re:I spent my career in tech, but wasn’t prepared for its ef... by NoGravitas on Friday August 25, 2017 @08:29AM (#15097912)

Reminder that at least Animaniacs and Magic Schoolbus are on Netflix (I watch them with my kids, in small doses). Haven't checked for the others.

I'm kind of sad that BtAS is not on Netflix, though.

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