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?
As other people are saying, start with the cartoons. I don’t know that any of them are super violent, but the Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends show was made in the 1980s when they clamped down on kids shows showing anything they thought was even remotely inappropriate, so there’s definitely that one.
Also, I don’t care if the 1960s Spider-Man cartoon has a catchy song, it’s a stupid song. The Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends intro music is awesome. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA3rTcX46b4
(Really stupid super-team though. Maybe don’t team up the people who can kill each other if they get too close to each other? Half the bad guys were already prepared for that before they got there.)