Why superheroes are good role models

Superhero- films, television series and console games are more popular than ever. Fight scenes, explosions and high speed chases are delivered through life-like perfect CGI and graphics. Villains are becoming more ominous in each new installment. Are Superheroes still age appropriate for young kids? I believe so. Here is 5 reasons why. Although some of the modern films may carry age restrictions for their fight scenes being too violent for young audiences, the core values across all Superhero stories are good.

Narratives are simple and strong and a lesson is usually learned. The positive messaging centers around helping and protecting one another. Efforts are rewarded and good eventually overcomes evil. I have said and written much about my belief that imagination is a muscle which needs stimulation to grow strong. Without imagination, creative thinking and problem solving is impossible.

Available On Air Stations. All Streams. Our Emery County George More info. KUER Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email. Or are they just more aggressive from watching all that fighting For the study she kept track of a group of preschool aged children for a year. At all. Lee Hale. Since then he has reported on topics ranging from TSA PreCheck to micro apartments in overcrowded cities to the various ways zoo animals stay cool in the summer heat.

But, his primary focus has always been education and he returns to Utah to cover the same schools he was teaching in not long ago.

Lee is a graduate of Brigham Young University and is also fascinated with the way religion intersects with the culture and communities of the Beehive State.

He hopes to tell stories that accurately reflect the beliefs that Utahns hold dear. When he goes out, he carries his possessions in a superhero rucksack.

Of course, he is not alone. Fully grown humans go to multiplexes to gorge on Deadpool and Black Panther. We were saved, but only for now. If at three he lived in the light with Superman, at four he entered the darkness with Batman , who is deeply weird. People seem to have forgotten that, in one story, he became a fish and, in another, a baby. A few years ago, MoneySupermarket. The Batman obsession led me to fret, because — Superman aside — these heroes are bad role models.

He cannot form stable relationships with women this applies to all of them. Anti-intellectualism is essential; none of the superheroes seems to read books, except Professor X of X-Men.

They exist to punch people. Even so, I was relieved when he exited the Batman phase and turned, at five, to Spider-Man , the geeky teenager who spurts white matter everywhere what a metaphor! He has a Spider-Man jumper with a hood that closes over his face, so his superpower is, effectively, blindness. When he wears it, I have to hold his hand to stop him banging into lamp-posts.

Then came Captain America, alongside an interest in American history, which is ill-served by Captain America books because they rub out all the bad stuff; then Iron Man. His Iron Man costume has a light you can turn on and off, like the inside of a car. What is gamma radiation? Even non-related subjects are seconded to superheroism.

Will presents be brought by Captain Birthday? At one point he created a character called Captain Fuck. When you believe that hope is lost, up pops an ideal so masculine, it can wear a cape and be admired. Superman came in , a response to the Great Depression; Batman in , with the beginnings of the second world war.

That the superhero canon was created, almost entirely, by Jewish immigrants — Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster , Bob Kane and Bill Finger — is more a matter for psychologists than hacks, but I suspect they just wanted to be taller and to smash things, like my son. Superheroes change, decade to decade, depending on what is required of them.