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Cartoons have been in existence for a long while and it has served the purpose of entertainment for both adults and Young ones. I remember back then when we were kid we would always look forward to watching our favorite channels for their cartoon contents and kept us engaged because we loved every moment of it. however in this modern time things have started to take a different turn what we considered as a harmless and educative content has somewhat become harmful and exhibit negative effects on children of nowadays. I am not trying to condemn cartoons there are still various cartoons that aims to teach educate motivate and pass positive messages to those watching it especially The Young ones but recently some cartoons that are supposed to be categorized for children contain explicit contents that are not conducive as visuals for this kids.

For my experience with cartoons they offer a variety of advantages that are necessary to stimulate and boost a child's brain. This cartoons offer different purposes for different reasons some advantages of cartoons can be for male entertainment purposes or four relaxation it could also be a means to promote a particular culture and also to expose a child to their cultural background or language, for instance there's a new series of cartoon or animation called iwaju on YouTube where Disney world did a collaboration with Nigeria producers and writers in Yoruba language for kids.

Other advantages of cartoons include they bring about creativity for instance what is done in a cartoon can boost the creative intentions embedded in a child's brain and it shall also boost positive imagination we also have for educational content where the purpose of that particular category is used to teach either mathematics English vocabulary sentence structure and so on. These were the major functions of cartoons back in the days but presently they have been concerned that some certain cartoons or produce to inflict negativity into a child.

As we are all away, as parents guardians, uncles and aunties we would have noticed in one way or the other that children are quick to adapt to their environment or the character of a person they look up to. This means that whatever they watch to it sticks to their brain. for instance, some cartoons depict violence, serious violence with the use of weapons and destructive materials in such cartoons and this can bring about desensitization of a child. They learn from these behaviors and try to carry them out no matter how dangerous they can be. This is why sometimes we as parents we wonder when our kids do or carry out some really awkward stuff we begin to imagine where they learned it from, like back flipping, curse words, insensitive signs and so on. Some of these cartoon influences it. So also does scary and intense cartoons scene have a negative effects on kids that make them hallucinate and have nightmares.

Subsequently, there was a time it went viral on Twitter when a children's channel on a TV station was showing explicit adult content in cartoons, people cried out to make sure parents were mindful of the kind of cartoons their children watched. At some point, it was even advised that parents should watch the cartoon before they are children watch it. The use of sexual innuendos, nudity, sexual clothings like lingerie, thongs etc, some animated pictures can even show nudity where the warrior is dressed in very revealing bikinis with all her boobs out.

Some cartoons can also make a child think less of his or herself by feeling intimidated by the exaggerated and unrealistic body images displayed in them. Something about children is that "they hear what they see",if you understand that, it means they are mostly influenced or affected by visuals and characters at that tender age. Some would be influenced by the super man power and feel low self esteem when they cannot live like that. One time I remember when my niece mistakenly saw her mum dressing up in the room and she came out to ask why her breasts was not as big as her mum's own, we had to educate her immediately that it takes growth, good health and development to get to that stage.

In conclusion, I am also using this blog post to intimate parents on what some contemporary cartoons a visualizing to this kids as it is harmful and is better to prevent it right at the bud. Parents and guidance should employ means that we tackle this issue. for instance, it could be by co-viewing the cartoon with the kids,it could be by engaging with the kids on what they watched and it could be by limiting the amount of time they spend watching this cartoon because they seem to be addicted to it.

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