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Watched with her 10-year-old son at the squid game: "It created a fruitful conversation at home"

Psychologists warn that watching the squid game can impair children's emotional and social development and encourage bullying.

However, parents can not always prevent exposure to content: "Violence did not bother him, but there is a dialogue about behavior in a survival situation and how far go for money."

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Strider Schleider Putschnik

Tuesday, 19 October 2021, 07:33

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Trailer for the series "The Squid Game" (Netflix)

The 'Squid Game' series that airs on Netflix is ​​the most popular in the history of the streaming giant and millions have already watched it around the world. In Israel, too, it became a hit very quickly, but what happens when you are exposed to it at too young an age? In recent weeks parents across the country have faced the dilemma of whether to allow their children to watch the series, and sometimes even in cases where they decide not to, they find that the choice is not always in their hands as children who watch it bring the complex content The book, in class WhatsApp or sharing excerpts on social media. At an elementary school in London for example, an urgent letter was recently sent to parents, after students rehearsed scenes from the series in the playground during breaks.

S. from the center of the country is a mother of two sons, the eldest of whom is a fifth grader who watched excerpts from the series with her.

"We watched episodes here and there, not whole episodes. He did not show fear but asked a lot of questions. In terms of violence - unfortunately he got to watch more violent content, so I'm not really excited about that. I was bothered by Uber violence, but it created some very fruitful conversation at home. "Especially on the issue of behavior in a survival situation, companies and how far they go for money," she says.

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"The conversation between the kids in the class was about the games themselves and whether they would have managed to survive them."

From The Squid Game, Netflix (Photo: Netflix)

According to her, her son said that there were other children in his class who watched the series: "Some of his friends watched, the conversation between them was about the games themselves and if they could survive them. Especially around the game 'Salt Fish'. And thoughts of strategy. "

The Squid Game presents graphic violence alongside difficult social and moral dilemmas in extreme situations, and officially it is of course not intended for children to watch and is limited to those aged 15 and over.

But children today enjoy very accessible access to screens and parents do not always know or are aware of their viewing choices, and what is more there are such parents who allow their children to watch it even if they are younger.

"Normalization of violence and bullying"

The squid game program includes harsh scenes of violence and includes situations where people watch violence against others and do not react. The program itself is a social satire intended for adults of course, but due to its immense popularity children and teens are also exposed to it. They can provoke nightmares, anxieties and normalize incidents of violence and bullying, "says Galit Sigman Nachmias, a clinical psychologist and deputy director of the Schneider Parental Authority Clinic.

"Of course watching the squid game exclusively will not cause a child who does not have an aggressive tendency to get up and perform sadistic acts as described in the program, but watching can certainly numb their sensitivity to such situations and reduce the likelihood of helping or being helped by violence and bullying," she explains.

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"Watching a program can numb children's sensitivities and reduce the chances that they will help a victim of violence or bullying."

From The Squid Game, Netflix (Photo: Netflix)

What is the right way for parents to deal with this content? After all, they can ban watching at home, but they do not have a realistic option to block access to all the information that comes out about the series in other places such as social networks, conversations with friends and the like.

"My recommendation is not to allow children and young teens to watch the squid games. However, parents who understand that their child will be exposed to the content even if they are banned from watching it (because he will actually see it with friends outside the house) are better invited to watch it together. Such parents can skip overly difficult scenes, explain the context, the satirical ideas and untruths of the events.In addition, it is important to clarify to children why the characters in the series do not respond to violence, how to behave in a situation where he himself is victimized by violence or witnesses. And a child can regulate some of the problematic language of the program. "

In S.'s case she eventually made a decision not to allow her son to watch the series in full, but not because of the violent content, but for a completely different reason: "Name and sexual talk that continued after that. It's not something I want him to be exposed to," she explained.

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