someone is going to deactivate on ml today

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[Deleted]

So, just Wednesday as usual then?

Check out the shoegal post on MM for some additional action. tacosforlife & jenny1980 did some strong work.

pandce.proboards.com/thread/436194/

[jeaniebueller]

There is a disconnect with reality in that thread. My 6 year old really likes zombies too. So he plays Plants versus Zombies, not watches TWD.

[NewOrleans]

It will be Amber Rose's fault.

[Velar Fricative]

Well, now I know for sure from the descriptions in that thread that Walking Dead would be way too scary for ME, let alone a 3-year-old.

But the Mr. Money Moustache thread on MM makes me rage more.

[ChillyMcFreeze]

Oh my.

[LoveTrains]

Apr 8, 2015 8:20:07 GMT -5 @ameliapond said:

So, just Wednesday as usual then?

Check out the shoegal post on MM for some additional action. tacosforlife & jenny1980 did some strong work.

pandce.proboards.com/thread/436194/

I think we all did.

[omgzombies]

[jeaniebueller]

I just started reading the MM thread. Damn. So, is Mr Money Mustache the money version of Food Babe?

[josieposy]

And here I felt bad for scaring my kids with Fern Gully.

[redheadbaker]

OMG, I cannot imagine a 3-year-old watching TWD. *I* can't watch TWD. I'd have nightmares for the rest of my life.

[Vespasia]

I caught that earlier. Craziness. I can barely watch that show.

I loved horror movies as a kid. My mother let me watch the Shining when I was 5. Probablt not a great idea on her part.

I also had insomnia and anxiety that may have been somewhat related to my taste in movies.

[laurenpetro]

clearly my plans of getting work done today are out the window.

[IIOY]

Apr 8, 2015 8:30:27 GMT -5 josieposy said:

And here I felt bad for scaring my kids with Fern Gully.

We tried watching Jumanji about a week ago and got 20 minutes in. My 7yo now has to sleep with a nightlight on, his door wide open, and the hall light on. :-(

[cville]

Oh, great. Now you all are going over there and will see where I confused Baymax, a movie character, with Betamax, an antiquated video cassette.

I'm very smart and people generally like me, okay?

[josieposy]

Apr 8, 2015 8:58:29 GMT -5 IIOY said:

Apr 8, 2015 8:30:27 GMT -5 josieposy said:

And here I felt bad for scaring my kids with Fern Gully.

We tried watching Jumanji about a week ago and got 20 minutes in. My 7yo now has to sleep with a nightlight on, his door wide open, and the hall light on.

Oh no!

Yeah I failed when we got to that final scene with Hexxus and he is all skeleton-like. Suddenly A was super quiet and L let out a whimper before full-on crying. I felt awful.

[eponinepontmercy]

DD (3.5) had a nightmare after we caught 3 seconds of a basketball game that included footage of a player whose face was bleeding. She started crying immediately and I had to calm her down and reassure her that the doctors were going to fix his booboo and his mommy was going to come give him a kiss.

She may never be ready for The Walking Dead.

[josieposy]

Apr 8, 2015 9:07:34 GMT -5 cville said:

Oh, great. Now you all are going over there and will see where I confused Baymax, a movie character, with Betamax, an antiquated video cassette.

I'm very smart and people generally like me, okay?

FWIW I didn't realize his name WASN'T Betamax until the third time we watched it.

[ttt]

I feel a lot less guilty for letting my kids watch Tom and Jerry now.

[ttt]

Also, I know parenting is hard. There are lots of really hard choices.

Whether or not you should let your 3 year old watch The Walking Dead is not one of the hard choices.

[pixy0stix]

I really don't want to get into a discussion about kids and what is appropriate.

I will say that if you don't present things as being scary then they won't be scary to a child. ZB's favorite past time was walking through the haunted house and poking the fake zombies in the eyes. When it was all set up we took her through with everyone in it. She had a blast.

[miesl]

Apr 8, 2015 9:11:20 GMT -5 eponinepontmercy said:

DD (3.5) had a nightmare after we caught 3 seconds of a basketball game that included footage of a player whose face was bleeding. She started crying immediately and I had to calm her down and reassure her that the doctors were going to fix his booboo and his mommy was going to come give him a kiss.

She may never be ready for The Walking Dead.

I'm right there with you.  My 4 year olds won't watch Frozen because of the snow monster.

[glinda]

But you guys, her kid got really sad when they tried to stop! So it's totes fine.

I mean my 2.5 year old got really sad the other day when I told him that couldn't spray Febreze in his eyes, now I see that I was wrong and if he really wanted to do it his judgment was sound. My bad, kiddo!

[pixy0stix]

oh jesus. The whole her kid is going to grow up to be a serial killer thing is too much for me.

Have fun, people.

[glinda]

Apr 8, 2015 9:32:13 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

oh jesus. The whole her kid is going to grow up to be a serial killer thing is too much for me.

Have fun, people.

That does seem crazy alarmist to me too. Honestly the part that bothers me the most is really what I just picked on, that the kid got sad so they decided oh well. Obviously this is just a piece in their parenting puzzle, but still.

[moreace01]

Her kid is probably too young to be scared.

I remember watching Poltergeist with my brother - he was probably around 3 years old (it was the 80's and parental controls on tvs weren't invented yet) and he thought the bodies popping up in the pool was the funniest thing he'd ever seen (while I, at 8 years old was totally terrified and didn't want to swim in Grandma's pool anymore). A couple years later, he had night terrors to Die Hard.

ETA: for the record - we both grew up to be relatively normal adults. And of course, the stuff we were watching was not totally approved of by our parents. They were just...not always around. 

[ajj]

Apr 8, 2015 8:58:29 GMT -5 IIOY said:

Apr 8, 2015 8:30:27 GMT -5 josieposy said:

And here I felt bad for scaring my kids with Fern Gully.

We tried watching Jumanji about a week ago and got 20 minutes in. My 7yo now has to sleep with a nightlight on, his door wide open, and the hall light on.

Jumanji scared me as an adult. I think I wanted to turn it off at the 20 minute mark.

Fern Gully is creepy as hell.

<------Gets scared easily.

[Deleted]

Apr 8, 2015 9:24:49 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

I really don't want to get into a discussion about kids and what is appropriate.

I will say that if you don't present things as being scary then they won't be scary to a child. ZB's favorite past time was walking through the haunted house and poking the fake zombies in the eyes. When it was all set up we took her through with everyone in it. She had a blast.

Can we at least discuss how this thread has turned into a competition over whose kid is the most delicate and sheltered? Because I'm enjoying that part immensely.

"My kid can't watch the walking dead. Pillow fights give him anxiety!"

[pixy0stix]

Apr 8, 2015 9:35:43 GMT -5 @majorwife said:

its the fact that these two episodes highlight violence and fear against children specifically.

I wouldn't be AS creeped if it were just TWD (unless the rape episode was her favorite) but its the violence towards children that another child is enjoying that I have an issue with.

More than likely the kid doesn't realize that the zombie kid is dead. Nor does she get that there is anything else happening to the children in the other episodes other than "Hey, there are kids on tv!"

If she was older and was scared of what was on the tv and they kept watching, ok, yeah, they need to stop. As it is she doesn't understand that there is something to be scared about since the parents aren't scared.

[pixy0stix]

Apr 8, 2015 9:38:15 GMT -5 @helenabonhamcarter said:

Apr 8, 2015 9:24:49 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

I really don't want to get into a discussion about kids and what is appropriate.

I will say that if you don't present things as being scary then they won't be scary to a child. ZB's favorite past time was walking through the haunted house and poking the fake zombies in the eyes. When it was all set up we took her through with everyone in it. She had a blast.

Can we at least discuss how this thread has turned into a competition over whose kid is the most delicate and sheltered? Because I'm enjoying that part immensely.

"My kid can't watch the walking dead. Pillow fights give him anxiety!"

LOLOLOL!

I didn't want to turn it into mommy wars.