Cartoons can have both positive and negative impacts on children's behavior and development. Positively, cartoons help children learn by observing characters, encourage healthy behaviors like eating vegetables, and reduce stress through laughter and colorful visuals. However, cartoons may also promote violence, unhealthy body images, and shorten attention spans. Parents should monitor what cartoons their children watch and discuss the difference between reality and fiction to help children understand messages portrayed. Overall, moderation is important to allow cartoons' entertainment while mitigating potential negative influences.

1. Topic: impact of cartoonson childrenmind
Presented by: Anum Yousaf 489-FBAS/BSBT/F13
Atia Gulzar 407-FBAS/BSBT/F13
Nosheen Rehman 436-FBAS/BSBT/F13
Presented to: Madam Atia
Dated: 1st December 2016
Course: INTRODUCTIONTO ANTHROLPOLOGY

2. Content List
• History
• Why Do Children Love To Watch Cartoons?
• Impact Of Cartoon On Children Behavior
• Positive Effects
• Negative Impacts Of Cartoon
• How To Overcome These Negative Effects
Of Cartoons?
• Views About Children Favourite Cartoons
• Hidden Acts Of Children About Cartoon
Watching

5. Histor
y
 The first animated cartoon was Fantasmagorie
produced in 1908 by the French director Emile
Cohl.
 One of the first successful animated cartoons
was “Gertie the Dinosaur” produced by Winsor
McCay
 In the 1930s to 1960s, cartoons were produced
in huge numbers, and usually shown before a
movie to keep audiences entertained.
 Original cartoons were black and white and
included no sound.The first cartoon with
synchronized sound is Walt Disney‘s Steamboat
Willie,starring Mickey Mouse in 1928.

6. Why do children love to watch cartoons
Children have a mind which is full
of curiosity and always finding
something to learn. IN reality they
usually spend time in home, school
and in some cases with baby sitter.
Means they didn’t see any unusual
or funny stuff in surrounding. And
while at home they watch
Television, always prefer to watch
cartoons because here kids found
all the funny and entertaining stuff.

7. Impact of cartoon on
children behavior

8. Positive Negative
Two types of effects

13. Positive effects
Helpful in exploring and observing:
no one can deny that kids can
learn a lot from cartoons. The
curiosity and excitement of
observing everything is cartoon
character and episodes let a kid to
observe new things and
surroundings.

14. Makingkid an activeand genius
Many cartoon characters are students and own
decent personality as idol daughter or son.
He is scientist and always seeks to discover new
inventions. So, if a kid loves to watch this genius
boy on television consequently he/she want to
become active and smart like Dexter of course.

15. Helpful in maintaingoodhealth
 First thing is cartoon make us laugh by
activities and doing creepy things this is the
reason why kids love to watch cartoons. And
research says laughing keeps you healthy as
it’s kind of exercise which regulate blood
circulation as well. That’s the one of the
greatest aspect of watching cartoon and
having a laughter dose makes you healthy.
 various cartoon characters have good
physique and are fitness freak as
well. Like, Popeye the sailor man, he is
the famous cartoon character who
belongs to spinach as source of power
and energy. It is interesting to know
that kids who did not eat spinach have
changed their taste and now love to eat
green vegetables. Well, that’s good
news for parents, isn’t it.

17. Helpful to overcomeand reduce stress
Scientifically it has been proved that our mind is more
active when it comes to visual learning rather than other
learning methods. That’s why many institutes suggest
seminars and lectures as video tutorials. At the age of kid,
mind is blank and always welcome to whatever it observes
and see. And therefore, play schools also prefer visual
classes for kids. And same happens with cartoon
characters, the point is by watching cartoons as with
beautiful animations, colors and other scenes, a kid can
learn various things at a one time. May be attractive colors
enhance a kid to recognize colors differences and also let
him/her to use them by making drawing.

18. Children’s characters are influenced by
the cartoon shows they watch on television
Kids actually learning by watching and in
cartoon show as their hero or favorite
character behaves respectfully with his
family. This tends a kid to do it in same
way. And child started giving respect to
elder brother and sisters in family. In other
words we can say that child is making
his/her behavior good and appreciable.

19. Negative impacts of cartoons
Health problems
 There is nothing good in sitting all day
in front of the TV, watching cartoons.
 Lack of physical activity also creates
problems with obesity.
 Pushing kids to eat junk foods

20. Health problems
• In 1997 in Japan, 653 children were admitted to hospital for
epileptic seizures. After detailed research it was found the seizures
were caused by flashing red and blue lights which appeared in 38th
episode of Pokémon, which children watched that night.
• The episode was never commercially released or re-broadcast
anywhere in the world, as it was banned by the
Japanese government.

21. Violence
Leonardo, one of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (the blue one), viciously beats up and
destroys the army of evil Krang. The result: broken arms and legs everywhere,
smacked faces, ruined buildings, total destruction
Remember Tom and Jerry? Well, they fight and
chase each other all the time, seeking some sort
of revenge
Throwing a grand piano on someone’s head,
gunshots, explosives in someone’s hand or
mouth, and the loud explosion that follows, all
of these are subliminal or quite direct messages
depicting violence that flow into children’s
minds.

22. Violence

23. Experts from the American Academy of Paediatrics (AAP) say that kids
who watch cartoons full of violence tend to be nervous, aggressive and
disobedient. Moreover, these children are impatient.
There are three main effects of cartoons that
concern violence on children:
 they become insensitive to others’ pains and
sorrow
 children do not feel discomfort from any
elements of violence around them in real
life
 children are prone to aggressive reactions
and violent behavior.

24. Are violent cartoons effected children
Yes: 85%
No: 25%
10%

25. Sexual Content
Example 1
Show: Symbiotic Titans.
Channel: Cartoon Network.
In that scene the girl dances in an attractive
way to convince the man to make the
Homework instead of her, she turns on a DVD
and starts dancing for about a minute, focusing
on her lower body.

26. Example 2:
Show: Digimon.
Channel: TV Kids & others.
These are several female characters from
different Digimon seasons; feminine organs
are explicit on most episodes.

27. Above are randomscenes fromdifferent animes & cartoons which
contain exposure of the female and male body sexual organs

28. Beauty cartoons
 BARBIE DOLL
 TANGLED
 CINDRELLA

29. BARBIEDOLL
Eating Disorder Girls start
worrying about their weights
Girls thinking about beauty
TANGLED
Fantasy world

30. CINDRELLA
• All stepmothers are evil
• The prince charming concept
• girls start having romantic vision

31. Scary cartoons

32. Scary cartoons
The Addams Family

33. o The AAP and the AACAPboth
believe that TV doesinfluence the
behavior of childrenas young as one
year old
o AACAPalsostressesthe needfor
parentsto keepa close eye on what
their childrenwatch.
o Parentsmustexplain that the
cartoon character or actor that was
shot has not been harmed
HOW TO OVERCOME THESE NEGATIVE EFFECTS of cartoons?

34. • Parentsshouldaware of theseverityof the situationthat cartooncharacters,is an
unrealisticmessage to childrenwho might believe that whenyou hurt or kill someone
he or she wouldremainunharmed
• Theyshouldnot choose thisas an easywayto entertaintheir kids
• Theycan choose appropriatecartoonsfor their children
• Parentsmustcontrolthe time children spendwatching TV while keepingup with
current eventsby watching evening news

35. • To make cartoons a healthyentertainment and a goodand
effective source of learning for children
• Cartoonsmust have the capacityto differentiatebetween
real life and fiction
• Childrenshould not 'apprehend' what theysee and obtain
information fromtelevision( especiallyin cartoons)
• TV charactersoftendisplay riskybehavior more likely to be
banned

37. Views about children favourite cartoons
Question No. 1 WHAT’S THE NAME OF YOUR FAVOURITE CHARACTER IN
THE CARTOON ANIMATION YOU LIKE THE MOST?
• 87% Spongebob
• 7% Tom and Jerry
• 6% Spiderman
Question No. 2 DOES SHE/HE HAVE ANY POWERS?
• YES 59%
• NO 40%
• NO ANSWER 1%
Question No. 3 IF SO, WHICH ONES?
• 82.5% flying powers
• 8.5% ‘running’ and ‘race’
• 9% ‘sticky’ powers

38. Question No. 4 DO YOU WATCH CARTOONS WITH YOUR FRIENDS?
• YES 61%
• NO 38%
• NO ANSWER 1%
Question No. 5 DO YOU WATCH CARTOONS WITH YOUR PARENTS?
• YES 59%
• NO 39%
• NO ANSWER 2%
Question No. 6 DO YOU WATCH CARTOONS WITH YOUR BROTHERS/SISTERS?
• YES 74%
• NO 10%
• NO BROTHERS/SISTERS 15%
• NO ANSWER 1%
Question No. 7 WOULD YOU LIKE TO WATCH CARTOONS IN SCHOOL?
• YES 89%
• NO 10%
• NO ANSWER 1%

39. hidden acts of children about cartoon watching
Question No. 1 IF YOU LIKE A PROGRAMME, DO YOU GO TO THE SHOW’S WEBSITE?
YES 48%
NO 28%
NO INTERNET 11%
NO WEB SITE 11%
NO ANSWER 2%
Question No. 2 IF IT WAS A REALLY GOOD WEBSITE, WHO WOULD YOU SHOW IT
TO?
FRIENDS 30%
PARENTS 18%
BOTH 33%
NO INTERNET 15%
Question No. 3 WHAT DID YOU LEARN FROM CARTOONS?
• 28.3% not a specific idea on topic
• 5.7% fight and positive messages
• like ‘to be good, nice and friendly’ 5.4%

40. QUALITIES OF CARTOON CHARACTER
a. WHAT ARE HIS/HER QUALITIES?
• strength, fighting skills, goodness, heroes who rescue people
and save earth and positive values 31%
• fly 69%
b. WHERE DOES S/HE LIVE?
• 22,8% houses of several types and kinds
• 8,8% towns
• 8,2% underwater lands and spaces
c. WHAT DOES She/HE LIKE TO DO?
• 20% playing with friends.
• 60% fights and violence, kill/beat people
• 20% eating

41. i. Do children realize cartoons are just
commercials?
• Yes 10%
• No 90%
ii. Is a child more likely to practice violence after
viewing it on a cartoon?
• Yes 97%
• No 3%
d. WHAT ARE HIS/HER SPECIAL POWERS?
• no special powers (36,8%),
• any kind of flying skills (8,6%)
• fire (5,2%)
e. WHAT COLOUR IS She/HE?
• 13,5% yellow
• 10,8%multicolour
WHATS IN THE MIND OF CHILDREN ABOUT CARTOONS?

42. iii. Are cartoons gender oriented?
• Yes 98%
• No 2%
iv. Do you think cartoons have shortened the attention span of
humans?
• Yes 20%
• No 80%
v. Do you think cartoons contribute to obesity?
• Yes 50%
• No 50%
vi. Do you think fast food corporations should be limited or
prohibited from advertising with cartoons?
• Yes 1%
• No 99%

43. vii. Have you ever detected a in a cartoon?
political message 20%
religious message 10%
racial message 70%
viii. Do you ever watch cartoons with your child?
Yes 3%
No 97%
ix. If so, were you surprised at the content?
Yes 80%
No 20%

44. CONCLUSION
We conclude that cartoons contribute major role in
children life. Parents must control the time children spend
watching TV while keeping up with current events by
watching evening news