S/O Tear Jerking Kids Entertainment

[mommyatty]

There are books I just flat avoid because they always choke me up.

The biggest one is Nancy Tillman’s On the Night You Were Born. Though pretty much any Nancy Tillman book does it.

And I cannot get through You Are My Sunshine. Tears. Every time.

What do you guys know will set off the waterworks?

[covergirl82]

The Tale of the Three Trees. I feel like there are others. I'll have to think about it more and do an ETA later.

ETA:  I wasn't thinking about movies earlier...  So, the ending of Toy Story 3, the beginning of UP.  Basically most of A Dog's Purpose (although it wasn't specifically "kid" entertainment, I did take the kids to see it, which was a mistake because it was so emotional, especially the part with the German Shepherd, because that's the kind of dog we have).

[justcheckingin73]

Oh the Places You’ll Go gets me sometimes.

Love You Forever will also get to me but then I think about how strange it is and it doesn’t last.

[2chatter]

None. This isn’t a thing for me. Except...

Having said that if I am already teary from something sweet even Batman will make it worse - reading an encyclopedia of superheroes and it mentioned his parents died and because DS had just been all “I love you mommy so much all the time” (which he never does) and it was too much.

[freezorburn]

Up.

Ok I said I’m not a cryer but I bawled through the whole thing. A family friend had just passed away and the whole montage at the beginning reminded me of him and his wife.

[phdmomma]

justcheckingin73, That book kills me every time, and yes it is super strange, like when she climbs into her adult son's room....

[sandandsea]

Love you forever. Idk why. It’s dumb.

Tons of movies. And ds1 is a total softie and cries too because “they’re just so happy/cute/etc”. Up, the dinosaur Arlo movie, moana, frozen, coco, toy story 3, etc. basically he’s a sucker for happy endings. I never cried at movies before kids but now they get me every time. 😞 and stupid this is us. Ugh.

[mae0111]

Like others, I cannot get through the beginning of Up without leaving the room.

[kimberlybb]

+1 to anything by Nancy Tillman. She gets me every time. I also tear up when DD and I read "She Persisted" by Chelsea Clinton.

[k3am]

I'm cracking up because while I'm admittedly a cryer, none of the books you guys listed would do it for me.

[waverly]

I love you to the moon... and back

Probably I would have been ok but we had a lot of problems in my pregnancy.

[tulip22blie]

Charlotte’s web, Bridge to Terabithia. (From my own childhood- haven’t revisited with kiddos yet!)

[2chatter]

tulip22blie - reread Bridge to Terabithia! I was shocked at the lack of emotion reading as an adult. It’s been like that with several books I have re-read. Also, I think kids fiction has come a long, long way since then and so many of the YA books are better written than they were for us - just richer and more somehow.

The one thing that always makes me cry is Greys Anatomy, never ever This is Us.

[tulip22blie]

Feb 3, 2018 10:46:02 GMT -5 2chatter said:

tulip22blie - reread Bridge to Terabithia! I was shocked at the lack of emotion reading as an adult. It’s been like that with several books I have re-read. Also, I think kids fiction has come a long, long way since then and so many of the YA books are better written than they were for us - just richer and more somehow.

The one thing that always makes me cry is Greys Anatomy, never ever This is Us.

I may not be able to handle it! Maybe I’ll just hang onto the memory and read something else with the kids