According to CURT HOLMAN, the seven deadly sins of kid culture are:
1) INSIPIDNESS
2) BRATTINESS
3) “PRINCESS-NESS”
4) “STEREO-TYPING”
5) VIOLENCE
6) VULGARITY
7) SLUTTINESS
While I agree that seeing these attitudes expressed in media for youth is troubling, I’d like to argue that kids have their own culture independent of media (this is not to say it is influenced by media). I disagree with authors when the see children role playing TV shows as bad. Kids always role play, and I find the adult culture much more dangerous than what is being streamed to kids. Besides, look at the kind of role playing certain arm chair militarists are doing as they toy with people’s lives while they project their fantasy of virility upon the youth soldiers of the world.
I disagree with the solution stated below, which is to cut off the source. I think it is far better to let children be exposed to the world but to discuss it and teach them to critically engage what they are experience. This is coming from someone who grew up on a lot of TV (at least 4-6 hours a day) and as someone who used to role play such horrible programs like the Six Million Dollar Man and S.W.A.T. You may disagree, but I don’t think I’m damaged as a result.
For now, the Seven Deadly Sins of Kid Culture – or as I like to call them, Blandy, Bratty, Dippy, Bleedy, Gassy, Trampy and Jar Jar – can be exhausting opponents. Because of them, however, I appreciate the children’s arts that my daughter and I discover together all the more, such as the graphic novel Owly by Lilburn’s Andy Runton, or the catchy, hook-laden songs of Laurie Berkner, or the new Pixar movies.
But being well-rounded isn’t the only virtue I want to encourage in my daughter. The best way to fight the seven deadly sins is to cut off, shut down and unplug all their sources of entry. Even the best things about kid culture, even Ratatouille, can’t compare to a walk in the park.
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