Doc Mcstuffins

Technology has quickly evolved in a blink of an eye in the past decade, mainly invented to propel humanity towards the future it became quite easily accessible to all here in the United States that even children have access to it. It leads to my question, is technology such as smartphones, tablets, and laptops be harming children more than helping them in terms of providing entertainment with violence in them. Streaming services such as Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime have become a very popular substitution for television with children due to smartphones and tablets being portable and convenient. Much of these streaming services provide a variety of television shows ranging from educational, cartoon, and adult rated shows. Most of the times …show more content…
The show is primarily about a young girl helping and fixing her toys from damages by portraying a medical doctor persona. In the show, which has around 22 minutes showed four verbal aggressions, eight physically aggressive scenes, and three relationship aggressive scenes accumulating a total of fifteen aggressive scenes. Quite a large portion on the aggression came from physical violence due to the show being primarily about helping damaged toys. Half of the shown aggression in “Doc McStuffins” being verbal and relationship was in the way of snarky remarks from characters and backtalk, which was usually ignored by the directed character. Being a kids educational show all the verbal, social and relationship behavior should be gratified in concern as the tone and intensity was not too despicable and was light in terms of negativity. All of the physical violence was indirect as everything was accidental and never …show more content…
Much of the rewards and punishment for both these shows are there for either a quick dab of humor or for accelerating their episodes plot, so there was not a lot of reinforcement for the aggressive scenes in these shows when compared to “The Simpsons”. I would argue that two out of the three shows of the shows I watched provide clear messages and lessons to which children can easily understand with outlier being “The Simpsons”. I would rate “Doc McStuffins” a 6 due to providing clear messages of helping damaged toys with the intentions of helping them and the light tone of verbal and relationship aggression. “Adventure Time” gets a 5, while being meaningful it does spill over in terms of aggression. “The Simpsons” gets a 1 in rating as it is far too violent for kids resulting in all three aggression types to be necessary for its