I'm alarmed at this progression of psychological manipulation of children. This is not a new thing. I remember watching the first South Park episode with my then young children, and watching a satellite antenna come out of Cartman's ass.

Probably many of Steemit users were raised on South Park. I banished tv in 2000, and while my kids hated me for a while, I recently was thanked by my son for the way I raised them.

Without tv, they read books. In fact I used to read to them, from my collection of pulp sci fi from the golden age. A favorite were tales of Retief, a galactic diplomat, irreverently written by Keith Laumer. I also used to devise my own stories for them, and came up with songs as well to accompany the Rainbow Birds stories.

The only reason your kids might be affected by this garbage is if you leave them to find their own education. They won't know any better.

Think about it.