For Kids

It seems to me that the more things are made "for children" the worse they tend to be. Now I'm not saying that I want everything to be for adults only, far from it, I prefer things which are family friendly, the problem is when they make things for children.
Cartoons are the biggest offenders because they are the most targeted at children, which makes the good and bad examples far easier to see.
The good examples are most of the Pixar movies which while appropriate for children are really written for adults. By that I mean that there are many moments in any of the Pixar movies where the jokes are going to go right over a child's head.
The reason that smart producers of children's programming write for adults is simple enough. Adults are the ones with the money and the ones with the remote.
There are of course any number of bad examples. I rarely watch them all the way through and I certainly do see them more than once so it is difficult to speak of but we all know them. Shows which have no redeeming quality, they are people yelling and flashing lights designed to keep a child watching for thirty minutes without anything else.
Perhaps it it laziness but I think it is something worse. People tend to think that children are stupid. Children aren't stupid, they are inexperienced but how are they going to get experience if we talk down to them?
Stop letting your children watch programming that is stupid. They don't have to understand every moment of a cartoon to enjoy it and if you want them to grow they shouldn't understand every moment. Challenge your children with movies just outside of what they understand, then go out and find a movie that does the same for you, you might find that you can still learn something from a movie yourself.