Now, I'm a feminist so I'm all for girl power books. Why do I care? Because 95% of this book is "cool girls" teasing this girl about liking pink. Problem is the study shows a correlation between an increase in social aggression in media and an increase of the "Mean Girl Syndrome" in elementary school kids. In the last two minutes they resolve the conflict hoping the kids see the moral of the story. "Educational Cartoons" like Arthur regularly have a conflict focusing on social aggression between classmates and friends. the stuff you see on the movie Mean Girls). Blast! I had a whole review written and my wireless internet dropped and I lost the whole thing, but I feel strongly enough about this book to rewrite it.īackground info: in NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children there is a chapter that cites a study about a decrease of violence in cartoons and an increase in 'social aggression' (i.e.
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