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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am taking my 4y old![/quote]

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I hope you will enjoy the 5 minutes of the movie before you will have to leave with a terrified, crying kid. [/quote]

No, she will be fine based on past experiences. [/quote]

I find that weirdly disturbing.[/quote]

And in stark contrast, I find it commendable that this parent has raised a child who based on this evidence appears able to determine what things are not worth being frightened by. Iow, I find a 4 year old who is able to recognize that a fictional movie is not a threat to her security quite advanced and admirable, not disturbing at all.

I have taken a similar approach with my girls because I saw no benefit and several possible drawbacks to encouraging them to be frightened by things which do not present legitimate threats through my action of presuming they would be frightened and unable to handle them.

[b]Why would a 4 year old watching animated movies without becoming terrified be disturbing?[/quote][/b]

Have you even seen a commercial or trailer for Maleficent?  Not animated, and Angeina Jolie is pretty wicked in it.  This is not your Disney version.  [/quote]

You are correct, my apologies. I posted too quickly and made an unfortunate error. What I intended to say was that the movie was a Disney movie based on an animated film (at least the version I am aware of is still made by Disney and based off of a plotline for which there is an earlier, animated version that many kids have seen) but instead I wrote that the movie itself was animated. I regret the embarrassing mistake -- for some reason I appear to have a mental block whereby Disney and animated go together in my brain -- but yes, I have seen many commercials for the film, as have my girls. The 5 year old was not frightened, but neither was she interested in seeing the film. The 8 year old wants to see it as soon as possible, so we will be seeing it soon.

I can definitely appreciate that many kids might, appropriately for their young ages, be frightened by it so obviously it is a judgement call on the part of the parent based on the individual child. However, I stand by the opinion expressed in my earlier post that it is not disturbing for a 4 year old to watch that movie without becoming a terrified mess. To me, if it says anything other than one child's film preference is different from that of another child, it is a positive that the child in question would not be "terrified and crying" due to the film.[/quote]

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