Are Children Too Coddled Nowadays?

[TheDeepestDepths]

What do you think?

When I watch children's television now, it's so different to the television I used to watch. Everything is all sunshine and rainbows and baby-talk. It's like the writers for children's television are being really condescending, or something.

Take Disney films for example, when I was five-years-old I loved films like The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Beauty and the Beast, but my friends little brother refuses to watch the Lion King as he finds it too scary - he's six now. Cartoons have lost all the dark (real life) aspects that our television used to have. Does anyone else agree with me?

Fair enough, somethings are more dangerous nowadays and to be sensible and safe we can't let children now do what, let's say, our parents used to do. But are they now just bubble-wrapped?

[Cygnus]

Maybe that is what happens in developed countries where people become completely afraid and compassionate over one death, that makes them soft and more likely to coddle their children. Of course, parents tend to be more overprotective when they have their first child due to lack of experience.

[Walter Powers]

Yes, I think parents are getting way too protective. It's like they aren't confident in there ability to raise a responsible child. Maybe it's because they haven't?