Cartoons can have an influence on a child development, it can have positive effects that can play a role in education for children, as an entertainment for kids but at the same time teaches children behavior, vocabulary, and discovering the world. A negative impact a child can distinguish is bad behavior and vocabulary. Some cartoons can become aggressive and gain a negative imagination in a child making them stay in a negative imaginary. Children 2-5 years olds watch cartoons, about 30-32 hours a week. As children develop, cartoons become attractive to them which then gets them to watch TV and this is usually socialized by family or school, etc. Cartoons have influence childrens perspective as they grow, seeing the development of values or upbringing ideas, whether it being a form of gender, race, or violence. As children spend a lot of time on TV, this form of media is more effective in certain knowledge or ideas that cartoons transmit to kids.
In the 920s and early 930s, the fairy tale cartoons that started with Walt Disney paved an experiment that turned fairy tales on their heads and exposed their foolish aspects of romantic love and fixed gender roles. Disney began ch
anging and adapting to something classical, but Disneys experimentation led to children being socialized by gender rules, and how they should view romantic love. As Disney was developing more realistic human figures and made characters as stereotypes, giving animals cute figures and making it seem comical and live. Children develop beliefs about the world based on experiences and observations around them. The exposure of TV helps develop young boys and girls how to view their perception about gender and their behavior. In this case, princesses form the way children can be socialized. For example, boys are socialized at such a young age. Boys are taught a way to manifest a way on how to treat girls throughout their lives and follow certain values. As well with young girls, girls develop a sense of having a romantic relationship with a happy ending. Fairy-tale films tend to seek to keep our eyes open and sharpen our perspective. It challenges us to see how we consider change in the long run. It being a boys and girls gender expectations, as other children are uncomfortable about boys playing the role of girls or vice versa. Disney was accused of spreading anti-feminist ideas.