TLDR: looking for a way to share spiderman with young children without violence or inducing ADD in child.

I have a 4 year old that I have pretty successfully sheltered from media. She’s watched some stuff - but think PBS instead of cocomelon - slower paced and no cuts every 5 seconds and noises / explosions / annoying blippi people. I think that’s the right choice and we’re doing well with it.

However, her friends, mostly boys, at day care all like to play spiderman. She gets enough about it to play along in the game. But she has never seen media about spiderman. And hasnt watched anything with violence - thats scary for her.

I’d like to share the character with her to help her with fitting in - while sticking to our media rules, in a kid friendly way. My first thought was comic books - but even those are pretty advanced for a 4 year old. I could edit down one of the spiderman movies into a few clips and show that.

But - would appreciate your suggestions. Do you have any spiderman books / media that you think are age appropriate?

  • Flying Squid
    2•7 days ago

    I mentioned the fact that ROTJ came out when I was six to suggest that I had been watching it long before that. I have a very vague memory of playing Star Wars in pre-school.

    I agree, some things we liked as kids will not be liked by our kids. But that is also not a reason to think that every bit of programming for children has to be about children. It’s okay for kids to enjoy adventures about adults. For one thing, it lets them dream about adventures they might have one day when they grow up.

    I mean even Disney realizes that. Many of their heroes (the human ones anyway) are, at the youngest, late teens. Some are older than that.