Spongebob

Do you allow your kids to watch Spongebob?

  • Yep, totally fine with it.

    Votes: 41 54.7%

  • On occasion--I screen it first.

    Votes: 2 2.7%

  • Nope, not in this house!

    Votes: 23 30.7%

  • Other (explain, please)

    Votes: 9 12.0%
  • Total voters
    75
i love spongebob and so do my kiddos and since my children know what is right and wrong, i don't worry too much about the silly name calling and such. again, i don't worry because my children aren't impressionable followers, they've proven and earned my trust in that area. they'll even say sometimes...that wasn't very nice or whatever. i think it's hilarious and spongebob is soooo sweet and cute. we love it.
 
lizzyfizzy said:
i love spongebob and so do my kiddos and since my children know what is right and wrong, i don't worry too much about the silly name calling and such. again, i don't worry because my children aren't impressionable followers, they've proven and earned my trust in that area. they'll even say sometimes...that wasn't very nice or whatever. i think it's hilarious and spongebob is soooo sweet and cute. we love it.
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This is us too...girls watch it, I watch it, but we are very clear with them what is wrong that happens.
 
Spongebob never crosses the airwaves in this house. I just find the show distasteful and unacceptable for my children.
 
I'm with Liz and Aaron. We watch it, its usually really funny and sweet. Occasionally there is a distasteful episode and I either turn it off or talk to the kids about it. I have yet to see my kids exhibit any bad behavior as a result of what they've seen on the show.
 
Personally I hate Spongebob. But DS watches it, and when something bad happens he usually says that Spongebob is being bad.
 
This is insightful. Carry on! :p

No seriously, I really trust you guys and your opinions, so I want to see what everyone thinks. :wub:
 
amystoffel said:
Personally I hate Spongebob. But DS watches it, and when something bad happens he usually says that Spongebob is being bad.
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Yeah, Connor (3) has said the same thing. There is an episode of Sponge Bob where Spongebob and Patrick aren't friends anymore and Connor said, "BobBob, be nice to your friend RIGHT NOW!". lol
 
I'm fine with it, and Wesley LOVES him. He calls him "Bob Bob" and sometimes asks to watch him while I'm getting ready in the mornings.

It is kind of funny because he will sometimes say "not nigh" (not nice), or will hold up his index finger and say "bad" when Bob Bob... I mean, Spongebob, does something "bad."

It's not my cartoon of choice, but it's a change from Dora (who Wesley is obsessed with).
 
I think that show is SOOOOOO annoying, good lord!

but my kids like it, and it is lighthearted fun. i think we have to let our kids develope their own tastes and respect that even if we think something is complete rediculosity...

from a moral stand point, i think it is innocent. although it may cause me to completely go over the edge one of these days :P
 
Kyle is currently obsessed with Spongebob (and Dora/Diego too so we watch them about 100x a day it seems lol) but he's only 21mo so it's not like he really knows what's going on most of the time. My girls like it too but are both old enough to know when there is something bad or inappropriate on the show and to not repeat it so I'm okay with it.
 
Ok, I polled because I have such mixed feelings. DS (5) likes it a lot. DD (3) couldn't care less. I've never liked it...his voice just grates on my nerves and I don't like some of the language, etc, even though DS does know better than to repeat it. The other day, though, I walked in on both kids watching it and Spongebob was having a convo with someone about the realness of Santa. That kinda flipped me out. I don't know, maybe I feel it's still too grown up for my kids? Right now, it's not allowed on at all, but I want to make sure I'm not being unreasonable. I'm doing a horrible job explaining how I feel...I hope you all can kinda figure out what I'm saying.
 
I really can't stand Spongebob. His voice just hits a nerve for me. And I have been listening to cartoons for 14 years. So my tolerance is low. I have banned Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon from our house. Way back when my bigger kids were little they liked Rugrats. And those kids were sooooooo rude. I heard my kids call each other stupid babies and I was done. So no Nickelodeon.
I am pretty lucky because Natalie and Derek don't really watch TV. Natalie will, but she prefers her movies. Tinkerbell and Enchanted are her thing. And Derek really only watches Cars and Sesame Street.
 
no spongebob here.

ds (3) doesn't really watch a lot of TV and when he does it's PBS, Sprout or once in awhile Noggin. I'm super picky about his shows.
 
lizzyfizzy said:
i love spongebob and so do my kiddos and since my children know what is right and wrong, i don't worry too much about the silly name calling and such. again, i don't worry because my children aren't impressionable followers, they've proven and earned my trust in that area. they'll even say sometimes...that wasn't very nice or whatever. i think it's hilarious and spongebob is soooo sweet and cute. we love it.
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Same thing here, mine love the show, but have never ever called each other names or anything else.

Rae is 4 and she LOVES it so much more than the other two ever did. They just laugh at it and really like it. I'm not too worried.

ETA that if they WERE name calling or doing bad things because of it, they wouldn't be allowed to watch it. Or, any other show that influenced them like that.
 
If it's on, the kids watch it. They don't see it everyday. Probably has something to do with them not being able to tell time and remember what channel it's on.

So much of any show, flies over the heads of my little ones.
 
I think it is extremely annoying but there are a few episodes I like so I will watch it...we have really gotten good about turning OFF the tv for most of the day so it is not really a problem right now. DS1 watches it every morning before he leaves at 6:40 am.
 
amandabarugh said:
I'm probably one of the more extreme. We don't allow Nick at all. So, no, Aidan is not allowed to watch Spongebob.
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We allow a couple shows from Nick, mostly the "Noggin" level shows. We do not allow Cartoon Network shows for the most part, a few Disney shows and others I can't recall right now.

JP knows right from wrong, that's not an issue. BUT, he was allowed to watch Spongebob, Catdog, and a slew of other shows I find inappropriate for kids when he lived with his father. He had the WORST attitude towards adults. We stopped those shows and all the video games rated above E...and his attitude has done a 180°. He's a different kid altogether. Of course, I've also limited just how much TV he gets to watch and how long he can play video games too, so that helped as well.

Devin...well, he's very impressionable. He does know right from wrong, he's just missing that filter that says, "Don't do the wrong thing." So we limit his exposure to those influences for him. He gets enough of it at school and through JP's old habits.
 
I don't have any problem with SpongeBob. DS doesn't "get" the humor and he doesn't really repeat any of it so it's all good. :)

However, I do get sick of watching repeats.....
 
newfiemountiewife said:
Same thing here, mine love the show, but have never ever called each other names or anything else.
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ETA that if they WERE name calling or doing bad things because of it, they wouldn't be allowed to watch it. Or, any other show that influenced them like that.
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That's how it is in our house. For a couple years, they were banned from watching Cartoon Network, because we found them imitating the shows that were on and found it inappropriate. We switched them over to Nickelodeon and a love of SpongeBob was born. The laughter gets really annoying after awhile, but dh and I find nothing truly horrible about the show.

Last year, we finally lifted the ban on Cartoon Network, so the boys mostly watch that or Boomerang and SpongeBob is a thing of the past. BTW, my boys are 9 & 8 YO.
 
I think Jeff's son watches too much TV in general (like 'Dog the Bounty Hunter') at both houses incl movies like 'Talladega Nights,' 'Batman,' etc. He's 6.

However, I don't have control over that. :p

Tyler watches Spongebob almost every day. I think Spongebob is annoying and Patrick idiotic, but I haven't seen any episodes that were truly objectionable to me. At least any more so than what he's already been exposed to.
 
We watch it every once in a while, but we don't screen it first or anything. It's not a show I care to see.
 
I cannot stand SpongeBob (totally and completely annoys the heck out of me!), and my kids will tell you that they aren't allowed to watch it at home 'cause Mommy doesn't like it. However, they do catch it occasionally at my in-laws. That's okay with me 'cause I know they're watching it while supervised and it doesn't happen that often.
 
We LOVE Spongebob over here... I think people get WAY to bent out of shape over the most ridiculous stuff.

My 2-year-old watches it on a daily basis. We have vetoed Thomas the Train over here... he's way too gaggingly sweet, I couldn't stand it.
 
We don't watch it (or pretty much anything other than PBS Sprout shows and VeggieTales and 3-2-1 Penguins). I find it annoying and not really going to "help" my boys. I think I am especially cautious because my boys do watch their shows while I'm making dinner so I am not there to monitor 100% of what is on. We don't even do Spongebob toys (DS asked the lady at Burger King if he could get another toy "because we don't do Spongebob". LOL! Really since he doesn't know what he's missing, and there are LOTS of other shows that are entertaining and teaching values, I doubt he will hate me for it later! Do I think it is evil? No, but I do think that especially at an early age, they take everything in and it will "affect" them some.
 
We watch a lot of Spongebob. JJ loves it. There has only been one episode I think, that I turned off.

Cartoon Network, I've blocked. I don't care for those shows.
 
We're a 'no Spongebob' house. My girls just turned 5 and 1 and the 5yo is into Tinkerbell and Princesses, so the demand for Spongebob isn't exactly high around here.
 
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