Kids say the darndest things

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."

public school can't come soon enough

lol

haha!

daughter made me almost cry when she announced very seriously that our recently deceased cat is now "walking around in my heart." (awwww)

:(

but <3

"Daddy, I have a question."
"Yes?"
"Why do I have so many questions?"

irl lol

lmao

My elder son is doing Grease as his school play, says he thinks the music is terrible, especially the song about Tommy Moore.

bahahaha

Poor kids.

Tommy Moore - how much dough did he spend?

It took me far too long to figure this out, but now I am a'lolin'.

haw!

I'm so pissed off that my kid's elementary school doesn't have any theater in it at all. I remember there being school plays all the way back to 1st grade. They were miserable for me, but my son's such a ham. It seems like he'd be a natural fit.

:/

"dad, have you ever been drunk?"