“So apparently we scarred our kids for life. Isn’t that awesome? One minute we’re snuggling up on the couch together to watch a movie, and the next minute our kid needs 14 nightlights and refuses to sleep ever again.
Dear Amazon Video,
FYI, the movie we rented does not cost $3.99. It costs $2000 because of all the therapy bills we’ll be paying for the next decade.
Sincerely,
A mom who hasn’t slept in 498 hours”
The top 20 “scary” movies NOT to show your kids: Baby Sideburns
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Beautiful, thoughtful post. We are such a youth-centered culture right now. There is dwindling respect for the aging. You said it well.
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Seen 6 of those movies. Not bothered son. Halloween let him watch a carefully selected Hammer Horror movie. Nothing. Yet Hotel Transylvania forced him to leave the cinema after 10 minutes. One Documentary on Vikings and it’s nightlight city for weeks.
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Vikings, huh? At least you know his triggers!
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The Vikings is a bugger as we live so close to a city which was the capital of the Viking kingdom. Plenty of scope for Viking ghosts.
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The flying moneys in The Wizard of Oz scared my son to death! He didn’t like ET either. He’s now 26 and wonders why those scared him! ~Elle
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Right?? I watch them now and I can *see* how they’d be scary to kids but it just didn’t occur to me at the time. I put both my kids through those gems, too. 😆
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Lol! Funny but probably true.
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Oh yeah.
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👍👌
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Ghostbusters was scary?? Which version did YOU (or your kids) see? That ‘new’ one was kinda stupid in my opinion, but then I liked the original even though I think Bill Murray is highly overrated.
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I didn’t see the new one. *I* thought Ghostbusters was tame enough until I looked at the girl’s face to see her freaking out. She wasn’t down with the fridge grabbing the girl scene or the alien dog scene or the part where they clawed their way out of crispy dog shells. 😆
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Ah! Yeah those particular scenes were a bit gruesome. But you gotta love the line associated with that whole dog thing “It smells like….BURNT DOG HAIR. Ooops. Sorry Freddy.” (or whatever the name of Bill Murray’s character was)…
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so funny. and true.
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Right?! And I totally forget the really scary parts until we’re smack dab in the middle of it. 😆
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always )
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