What the fuck, H?

[spartyfan]

This would make me really upset. I hope your DD does okay after watching it. I'd definitely make your H deal with any negative effects.

[pantsparty]

I mean, it's not even in season.

[sangria]

God my parents were so dumb. My mom let me rent pet sematery when I was like 13. I didn't sleep for a month

Does she act all fine watching it and then freak out later? That's my DD. No mommy don't turn it off, I'm not scared!

2 hours laters- MOMMY IM SCAAAAAARED

[underwaterrhymes]

My parents let us watch Poltergeist shortly after it came out. My little sister was maybe 5 or 6?

My dad had to cut the tree in our front yard down because my sister was thoroughly convinced it was going to come through her window.

[papie]

My DDs after school care teacher showed it to them on Halloween. In second grade. Wtf?

[Deleted]

Oooh, fuck no.

My h is the worst with this kind of stuff. I can't remember wtf he was watching, I want to say it was a white walker scene on GOT but I'm not positive. Anyway, I came into the living room from being in the basement and Sofia just started bawling. I pretty much killed him with my mind as I tried to explain to my kid that it wasn't real.

[frkls]

Dude! I HEAR that!! Dh recorded little shop of horrors a couple days ago and hunkered down with J to watch it tonight. Of course, Jonah is still up rising his brain out with some Simpsons

Eta: I obviously sympathize with the easily-scared thing....since little shop of horrors isn't exactly poltergeist or thriller

[cabbage10]

I watched the making of thriller obsessively at 5. Seriously it was my favorite tape (along with the Jane Fonda workout that was also on the same recording). I didn't have nightmares and am not freaked out by zombies or anything now. I have plenty of other irrational fears though hah. I hope your girls can see the the fakeness and be ok

[speckledfrog]

I can only assume his brain has been addled from taking care of sick kids, because he is clearly insane.

[peachdragon]

I'm trying to remember how old I was when I saw it. OK, I looked, I was about 6, too (almost 6). I do know that I told my mom, in no uncertain terms, "I am going to watch the Thriller video." I had never been allowed to watch MTV in my life, but this was a momentous occasion, and I knew it, at almost 6.

Of all things to "give in to" with your child (!)

But I was OK. I made it.

[lilafowler]

Jan 22, 2016 21:12:26 GMT -5 underwaterrhymes said:

My parents let us watch Poltergeist shortly after it came out. My little sister was maybe 5 or 6?

My dad had to cut the tree in our front yard down because my sister was thoroughly convinced it was going to come through her window.

My parents let us watch it as well-wtf 80s moms and dads?
The thriller video scared the shit out of me for a looooong time.

[peachdragon]

PWD, so sorry if I'm dismissing your concerns. I didn't usually get nightmares, so ignore my anecdote. Your H is clearly not thinking.

[underwaterrhymes]

Jan 22, 2016 22:03:19 GMT -5 lilafowler said:

Jan 22, 2016 21:12:26 GMT -5 underwaterrhymes said:

My parents let us watch Poltergeist shortly after it came out. My little sister was maybe 5 or 6?

My dad had to cut the tree in our front yard down because my sister was thoroughly convinced it was going to come through her window.

My parents let us watch it as well-wtf 80s moms and dads?
The thriller video scared the shit out of me for a looooong time.

I loved Thriller.

I had a werewolf mask and I used to make up dances to the song in my bedroom and then put the mask on at the end all, "Surprise! I'm really a werewolf!"

LOL.

[livinitup]

I told my 2nd grader to close her eyes while I was watching Game of Thrones. She walked into the family room and was all "what are they doing with that man (with his head on a block)."

I told her - Girl, they are going to chop that man's head off. You don't want to see. She had fun running away.

I kept my thumb on the pause button the whole time I watch that series.



!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WINTER IS COMING.

[sonrisa]

Jan 22, 2016 21:07:06 GMT -5 sangria said:

God my parents were so dumb. My mom let me rent pet sematery when I was like 13. I didn't sleep for a month

Does she act all fine watching it and then freak out later? That's my DD. No mommy don't turn it off, I'm not scared!

2 hours laters- MOMMY IM SCAAAAAARED

I always say "I'm scared, so we need to turn it off." DD freaks out easily. I'm careful, but you never know when Charlie Brown Christmas will be too intense. When it happens "Mommy's scared."

[lilafowler]

Jan 22, 2016 22:13:32 GMT -5 underwaterrhymes said:

Jan 22, 2016 22:03:19 GMT -5 lilafowler said:

My parents let us watch it as well-wtf 80s moms and dads?
The thriller video scared the shit out of me for a looooong time.

I loved Thriller.

I had a werewolf mask and I used to make up dances to the song in my bedroom and then put the mask on at the end all, "Surprise! I'm really a werewolf!"

LOL.

It was when his eyes turned yellow-I was all NOPE!

[mcmel]

So I think I've told this story before, but whatever - so my parents had Michael Jackson's Video Greatest Hits on VHS. I thought that it was the movie Thriller, but with a few music videos at the end. I was 21 before H and I were discussing the song Thriller and I mentioned something about the movie. He had to explain to me like I was a child that the music video was just really long, it wasn't an actual fucking movie. I guess my perception of time was really fucked up as a child because Thriller was one of my most favorite movies to sit down and watch every day.

So your kid might not have nightmares, but they might have trust issues at 21 when they realize you let them watch the same music videos on repeat every day of their life.

[thedude]

Jan 22, 2016 21:06:22 GMT -5 toledo said:

I saw Jaws when I was a wee thing. It fucked me up for life with regard to any deep body of water.

POOL SHARKS.

Me too. The black lane lines still freak me out once in a while, despite being, you know, a fucking adult. It's beyond ridiculous, but there it is.

[Deleted]

I saw Fatal Attraction when I was 8 or 9, the bathroom scene where she comes flying up with the knife still gets stuck in my head. Crazy how relaxed parents were back then. Though we are debating showing C Goonies (he's 5, I was 6ish when I saw it in the theaters).

[cleo29]

I blame horror movies for my dislike of camp when I was younger. Looking at you Friday the 13th and Sleep Away Camp! Really, I think it made scared of old cabins in the woods. lol