Kids say the darndest things

kids write the darndest things:
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V writes a lot lately - stories, lessons for her "class" that she pretends to teach, etc.

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kinda shocked her peers have exposed her to/are aware of Walking Dead and the Annabelle movies I mean wtf these are 1st graders

Yeah. My kids are telling me about Freddy and Jason because one of their classmates has seen those movies. Lotsa shitty parents...

On the other hand, I described the plot of E.T. for Beeps, hoping she'd want to check it out on a family movie night.

Her response was "So it's a movie about an alien who wants to use the phone. No thanks."

it's just a little naked lady dismemberment, it's all good

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My wife has 1st/2d graders who have seen Chucky movies, played Grand Theft Auto, etc.

it's just a little naked lady dismemberment, it's all good

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― Οὖτις, Tuesday, February 3, 2015 5:30 PM (19 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fwiw, when I was a little kid (maybe 6/7) I had a game with a friend where we pretended to kidnap "naked ladies" and then bake them in ovens and eat them. I never saw any of those kinds of movies, no abuse in my past afair, never tortured animals, etc.

if someone pvmic's that post I will probably have to seek intensive therapy

I had a game with a friend where we pretended to kidnap "naked ladies" and then bake them in ovens and eat them.

this seems vastly different from being exposed to actual violent imagery - ie it's just yr weird kid imagination at work, conflating several half-formed ideas (naked ladies are forbidden, hansel&gretel being baked in the oven by the witch etc.) into harmless play - v different.

yeah, seems right. And a lot of these students behave in pretty fucked up ways too -- correlation or causation IDK.

pt. 2 (many books have funy parts and saspishas caractors)

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My little kid has sat in on some of the horror stuff my big kid watches, including quite a bit of Walking Dead. She's remarkably well-behaved, so I'd probably vote for "correlation". It's funny, she can chill out in front of some zombie apocalypse without batting an eye (usually), but will turn around and get freaked out about an Alvin and the Chipmunks episode.

OTOH, when my son was 6, he had a neighborhood friend who wandered over one day with a DVD of Saw, asking if we could watch it. That kid was messed up, but it was all family stuff.

rooted in family stuff.

she can chill out in front of some zombie apocalypse without batting an eye (usually), but will turn around and get freaked out about an Alvin and the Chipmunks episode

haha yeah this kind of thing is totally otm. stuff you would expect to scare them can just go right by them, and then they scared by something completely innocuous instead

which is not to say I would advocate watching Saw...

how old is yr little kid?

4. Yeah, we're not watching Saw. And usually I make my 10 year old save the horror movies for after his sister goes to bed, but she's definitely seen some Walking Dead, some Grimm, some particularly intense episodes of Dr. Who, etc. Probably a couple horror movies, but I'm pressed to think of any right now. We watched Godzilla as a family last weekend. That was kinda intense. But I think the key to any of this is just being there for your kids, not forcing them to watch something that gets to be too much for them, and making sure to discuss it as a family. The differences between scary movies and real violence. Let them know about behaviors in the movie that you wouldn't approve of irl, etc.

I hope there was a long digression about how Godzilla was born out of Japan's need to culturally deal with the psychological (and physical) fallout of the atomic bombs at Nagasaki/Hiroshima and that Godzilla symbolizes these latent fears and ambivalence about nuclear power. also smashing things.

It ended up being more of a digression about why a movie-maker might feel the need to not focus on the monster throughout the entire movie, but tbh I too felt that they were spending way too much time on Aaron Taylor-Johnson's character and not enough on smashing things.

It's only at a distance that it sounds like a neat little sitcom scene rather than the HOURS OF TORTURE that it seemed at the time.

qft

my coworker told me that his daughter will sit through all of Nightmare Before Christmas including Ooogie Boogie but is super scared when the train goes through the tunnel in Polar Express

<3

Bunnicula!

ME: So you know who Abraham Lincoln was?

BEEPS: Yes. He's on the penny and he was shot in the back of the head...

ME: Um yeah. That's about it.

BEEPS: …while watching a show.

loooool

K: I like strawberry juice. I like raspberry juice. I like apple juice. I like all-of-thee-bove!

In the middle of the night: "Oh, balls, I need to go to the potty."

irl lol

"Oh, balls" is just a hilarious expression anyway, and a little kid in the middle of the night saying "Oh balls, I need to go to the potty" is killing me.

and who among us has not awoken in the middle of the night, realized we had to go potty, and thought, "Oh balls."

I can't stop giggling. That is the best.

XD

I walk into the bathroom where the girls are in bath.
Me: "Oh come on, how did all this water get on the floor?"
Ava: "Is that a rhetorical question?"

lol

"you look kinda badass, dad. from a distance."

I walk into the bathroom where the girls are in bath.
Me: "Oh come on, how did all this water get on the floor?"
Ava: "Is that a rhetorical question?"

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Ava's version is better.

My son, while watching a movie:

"It's not fair! The bad guys always lose!"

"Daddy, what happened to your life?"

"Dad, you look pretty bad-ass...from a distance."

Dad, you double-posted that one

lol. shit.

When Henry wants me to put my arm around him he now says 'Put a seatbelt on me, Mama!'

:)

That is adorable.

oh that's so cute.

omg

3-yo looking at match attax card of arteta

me: "that's mikel arteta! he's spanish. he plays for arsenal"

3-yo says "he's rubbish" and does a no-look toss of the card over his shoulder

looool

6-yo, pointing to bath:

"that tap is bare old, man"

More religious brainwashing

K told my wife that two of her blocks were "Standing up for God" (she actually said "Hashem" which makes it funnier if you understand the cultural milieu), and that one of them was "Lying down because he didn't want to."