Will Hall of Presidents ever open???

[dreamer17555]

Todays kids have seen a whole lot more than you think already. It is on TV, it is in cartoons, it is in video games. Unless the kid has been under a rock all their life they are not going to be traumatized. It's not the same world anymore. If the news alone doesn't send them over the edge, nothing will. I also don't think it is a bad thing to show what happens if you cross the line of being civil or being a jerk. It's very hard to see any justice right now, and that would be justice.

Watch Tom and Jerry or Woody Woodpecker on Saturday mornings. Especially Woody, that dude is always harming others for no reason at all and then laughing about it. Don't think for a minute that kids aren't seeing that but if taught right from wrong, they are still smart enough to just laugh along and not think that it is something they can do as soon as they are big enough.

Even when I was young, I saw cartoon characters falling off cliffs and then 5 seconds later, they are perfectly fine and trying once again. Never once did I, at any age, think that I could do the same thing and not get hurt. And we didn't have parents and society constantly monitoring everything we saw and trying to eliminate it instead of talking to their children and teaching them fact from fiction. Just another example of parents trying to transfer parenting responsibilities to someone else.

Are you kidding me? There is a huge difference between watching a cartoon and seeing an altercation in front of you on vacation.

Its not like WDW is going to put guests in harms way so the show will be closed and stopped either way once security must be called. They are not going to have guests in a place to witness this "justice" if they can avoid it.

And no, I do not think my children ever needed to see security dragging someone out of a show to know how to behave (and my eldest has been going to both ballet and broadway since she was 5 and has never acted up).

Again regardless of how "traumatic" you think it would be it is not something that is worth upsetting guests and shutting down a show or having an altercation. If a guest is that disruptive the show will be cancelled.

Parents are not transferring responsibilities because they don't want to have their children witness an altercation while on vacation.

 

[Suze10860]

Todays kids have seen a whole lot more than you think already. It is on TV, it is in cartoons, it is in video games. Unless the kid has been under a rock all their life they are not going to be traumatized. It's not the same world anymore. If the news alone doesn't send them over the edge, nothing will. I also don't think it is a bad thing to show what happens if you cross the line of being civil or being a jerk. It's very hard to see any justice right now, and that would be justice.

Watch Tom and Jerry or Woody Woodpecker on Saturday mornings. Especially Woody, that dude is always harming others for no reason at all and then laughing about it. Don't think for a minute that kids aren't seeing that but if taught right from wrong, they are still smart enough to just laugh along and not think that it is something they can do as soon as they are big enough.

Even when I was young, I saw cartoon characters falling off cliffs and then 5 seconds later, they are perfectly fine and trying once again. Never once did I, at any age, think that I could do the same thing and not get hurt. And we didn't have parents and society constantly monitoring everything we saw and trying to eliminate it instead of talking to their children and teaching them fact from fiction. Just another example of parents trying to transfer parenting responsibilities to someone else.

Respectfully disagree with everything you said here.

 

[Grasshopper2016]

And yes I wish Carousel of Progress would go too

Hey now. Them's fightin' words.

 

[Travelgrrl]

It's been quite a few years since I took my son and his disabled friend and his mom to WDW, but at the end of the trip, I shot them on video and asked them what their favorite attractions had been. Now these kids had been feted from one end of WDW to the other, being treated like VIPs by CMs due to best friend's wheelchair. They rode Star Tours 4 x in a row. They had a private meeting with Chewbacca, They had toured every park and every attraction, front row in every ride that had one.

Their three favorite things? Hall of Presidents, American Adventure, and "Wacky Wizard", a guy who appeared for nightly shows at our hotel, and who would let the boys help him. The last choice was hilarious enough, but for two 11 year old boys to agree that HOP and AA were their top attractions was adorable.

 

[TheDailyMoo]

James Monroe our 5th pres had one of the most peaceful presidencies that came to be known as the Era of Good Feelings. He tried to create a more unified country...ummm maybe we can just have his animatronic talk and tell us how we can get back to that again?

Or if that doesn't interest anyone we can make John Quincy Adams' animatronic go skinny dipping in the Potomac...because that's actually what he did...during his presidency no less.