But they need to be used in sensible ways only at the right times in life. The older you are, the more likely it is that these will be aids to communication, as opposed to impediments to the development of communication capabilities. Make it relational. Shows like this can be tremendously positive because they can model for children. They can show children a host of things that the they will experience in their own lives.
Children can learn about loss, sharing, and thinking.
You can communicate tremendous things using a show like this. However, one of the things that you might resist is making this show like so many other shows for children in that it uses fewer words and more images. If you have a relational show that has lots of words and lots of conversation, children will watch it. But you must make the show have compelling conversation, a compelling story, and characters that children like. If you do these things, children will tolerate and enjoy longer scenes, true conversation, and more complex ideas.