[josephv]

I ravenously consumed The Simpsons for most of my youth and loved it. I watch it now whenever I get the chance and love it, but life happened. I don't like my kids to watch it so they don't grow up Fd in the brain like me. Having a bad kid as a role model I think does impact children.

It's also not the only game in town. Cartoon network quality has gone way way up. I used to watch 3-hour cartoons on Saturday morning, and the simpsons et. al on Sunday night. That was it for cartoons on TV. Grandparents broke out VHS tapes occasionally as well. We didn't have a lot of options so The Simpsons was mind blowing. Not so much anymore.

[xfitm3]

What about the simpsons is unhealthy for kids?

[ip26]

Having a bad kid as a role model I think does impact children.

I.e., Bart.

Edit: I'm not sure people realize I'm not the grandparent, or that I was directly quoting him to answer the question?

[thrower123]

The goal posts have moved so far on what it means to be a little shit in cartoons that Bart seems almost angelic. I'd be more concerned if my children started aping Lisa's holier-than-thou idealism.

[justtopost]

So, all cartoons then?

Bart is the archtype for screwing up amd learning your lesson. Omitting that seems worse parenting.

[josephv]

My kids have had no trouble screwing up and I try to help them learn lessons. There are many other shows that teach that same lesson without a cartoon cat and mouse filleting each other, dad drinking and bumbling around and choking their kids out.

I love The Simpsons; honestly I like Bob's Burgers more, but both shows live on a line between acceptable and unacceptable, like all adult cartoons do. They will find things that do the same and I won't know about it. But I don't spoon feed it to them.

I already give them all the vidya games in the world so they aren't starved for crude content. Also just living with me is all the crude TV-MA content they can handle. Mom and Dad are sort of fun to hang around (at least for Mom and Dad).

[watwut]

I am pretty sure kids can grow up perfectly fine without watching whatever cartoon. Really, no matter what cartoon is, the kids will be fine. Why do people attack others parenting based on nonsense like that? You don't even know age of his kids. Sometimes parent recognize influences that shaped him in a bad way and then attempt to avoid the situation for his children.

Bart is not archetype for screwing up and learning lesson, Bart never learns lesson. Bart is archetype of out of control brat. Which is fine and there is nothing wrong with that and that is precisely why people enjoyed the character.