The first day without Saturday morning cartoons

According to BuzzFeed, today was the first day in which Saturday morning cartoons did not air on public television. A sad day for us all....CW was the last channel to have their cartoon lineup with "The Vortexx" which was last weekend. Even as a young adult I would tune into Saturday morning toons before football started. Reminded me of my childhood and it was programmed into my brain. Now, though, kids just go to Netflix or YouTube to watch their favorite shows. Personally I find something wrong with that.

The reason I find fault with it is because getting up on Saturday morning used to be a bonding experience between a parent and child. It was tradition. Now with the flooding of the market and having anything and everything available at all times I just think that lowers the child's patience level/attention span.

I remember getting up every Saturday to watch shows like Yugioh, Digimon, and Power Rangers. I also remember that Pokemon was on when I got home from school, but looking back that didn't last long because one day I came home and it was some old show and I was like WHAT THE HECK. Same way with my Saturday morning toons. If I saw golf on and not my Rangers I was one unhappy kid. Those shows had a hand in making me who I am today and it was also nice that time was set aside every week. Today, again, kids just do what they want whenever and that distracts them from school work and such.

I'm always on the fence of whether or not technology is aiding us or declining certain abilities of ours. If/When I have a child I would love to get up with them and watch old shows and have them experience the same childhood I did. I couldn't imagine waking up and not hearing "GO GO Power Rangers!".