Oh my...really you let your kid do this....at 3.
I wonder if the decision I make for Ri is going to cause problems. I guess it is something I have to live with. But I do not want to shelter my son from the world. My father sheltered me....excuse me...imprisoned me from the world. So when I hit it on my own I hit it hard. I drank, I smoked and yes even tried drugs. I am not proud of this fact, but I learned the hard way. I learned on trial and error. This almost got Shane and I into and accident after I had a night of drinking way to much tequilla and then almost taking a dive off a 3rd story balcony because I walked out the wrong door while high. Now with that being said, I do not want my kid to drink or do drugs. But I want him to know what is out there. I want him to feel that he can ask me questions and I can answer them. So how does all this play together?
As we are watching these movies/shows I am talking to my son. When he sees something in life I am talking to him. I am not blindly letting him see these things. I will continue discuss with him between fake and real....between right and wrong. There are things that I will absolutely put my foot down to.
I want my son to know I am here for him to ask questions. I want him to learn from my mistakes as I have learned from my parents.
In the end, if I am parenting my child unwisely I guess I will have to live with it. Otherwise I just love seeing people's faces when I tell him he watches Night of the Living Dead. Really folks it is just chocolate syrup and roasted ham......Bwahhahahaha!
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Harry Potter (1).....Night of the Living Dead (2)....Kick Buttowski (3)...OH MY!(4)
Suburban Daredevil! Buttowski! It is a cartoon on some channel. One day someone let him watch this. And he is in love with it now. He thinks that if Kick can do it he can do it! So daily and I mean daily he tries a new trick. Jumping off the couch on to the coffee table.....standing on the edge of the bath tub showing off balance. I dont encourage it but I dont discourage it either. I do make him stop if I see a horrible outcome, but other then that I want him to have fun and see what he can do. I love watching the excitement on his face when he completes a stunt.
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Harry Potter (1).....Night of the Living Dead (2)....Kick Buttowski (3)...OH MY!(4)
Mmmmm....brains......
Really I let Ri watch Night of the Living Dead? Yes I did. First off lets factor in some things: It was the original black and white, it was during broad daylight and he was 2 1/2. Wait like the last thing helped my argument. This started again when he was a baby. His very first Halloween we went to a little party and the host had NOTLD on TV. I could not block him from watching it. I would move him and he would wiggle his way back to watch it. We eventually left because it was past his bed time.
A couple more things you need to know about me. I am a freak about Halloween! I mean freak! I have been ever since I was a little girl and my Uncle Tom answered the door in a wolfman mask that made me pee my pants. Yes I peed my pants! I watched scary movies all the time. I watched 3D flicks that were awesomely scary. Now the only two movies that really scared me was Jaws, I was barely 4 and decided swimming was not that cool of thing. I grew out of that. The second Poltergeist.....to this day I still do not hang my feet down from the bed....something might grab me :). Anyhow I DVR and watch Halloween movies weeks before and weeks after Halloween. It is the only time they play Dracula or Frankenstein or the true movie monsters that I grew up with.
So Ri wakes up from nap and trots out while I am watching NOTLD. He sat there and watched it....no bad dreams nothing. He really didnt say anything about it. Now watch the original and tell me what there is. Slow moving people that like to bite people....hhhhmmm sounds like a toddler. Now this year may be different.....next post.....
Really I let Ri watch Night of the Living Dead? Yes I did. First off lets factor in some things: It was the original black and white, it was during broad daylight and he was 2 1/2. Wait like the last thing helped my argument. This started again when he was a baby. His very first Halloween we went to a little party and the host had NOTLD on TV. I could not block him from watching it. I would move him and he would wiggle his way back to watch it. We eventually left because it was past his bed time.
A couple more things you need to know about me. I am a freak about Halloween! I mean freak! I have been ever since I was a little girl and my Uncle Tom answered the door in a wolfman mask that made me pee my pants. Yes I peed my pants! I watched scary movies all the time. I watched 3D flicks that were awesomely scary. Now the only two movies that really scared me was Jaws, I was barely 4 and decided swimming was not that cool of thing. I grew out of that. The second Poltergeist.....to this day I still do not hang my feet down from the bed....something might grab me :). Anyhow I DVR and watch Halloween movies weeks before and weeks after Halloween. It is the only time they play Dracula or Frankenstein or the true movie monsters that I grew up with.
So Ri wakes up from nap and trots out while I am watching NOTLD. He sat there and watched it....no bad dreams nothing. He really didnt say anything about it. Now watch the original and tell me what there is. Slow moving people that like to bite people....hhhhmmm sounds like a toddler. Now this year may be different.....next post.....
Harry Potter (1).....Night of the Living Dead (2)....Kick Buttowski (3)...OH MY!(4)
What a combo.....
I question my parenting techniques sometimes. I just wondering if I am doing the right thing.
So lets kick off with the hero of the selection.....Harry Potter. The Harry Potter series has been out for sometime. I started reading the books after watching the first film and falling in love with the wizard world. By the time I got to the 4 book I was already ready for the next one. So when I found out I was pregnant with Ri was excited that I could share these with my son. There are so many books/movies that I would love to enjoy with him and this is one of them.
Ri has turned into me a giant movie fanatic. There are days we have movie and pj days and we can sit and watch movies all days. At 3...I am impressed how he can sit for a movie. Maybe he turned into a movie kid considering he went to his first one when he was like 6 days old. (Parenting choice one I questioned for a long time). We took him to Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skulls. I was worried it would hurt his hearing....I muffled his little head with a blanket and he slept the whole time.
Anyhow....he watched an episode of Wizards of Waverly Place and seemed to really enjoy the magic of it. So I said well you want to watch Harry Potter (HP) with me and that has some pretty awesome magic too. He of course refused. Until recently, HP was coming out with the last installment of movies. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2. In honor of this everything went HP. Some Family Channel was playing all the HPs back to back to back. Riley sat and started to watch one very intently. I told him that if he wanted to watch from the beginning we could. And he was genuinely excited about it.
In addition to this soon to be HP fest at home, I was going to have a HP fest of my own. A few select theaters were showing all 8 movies - 2 movies a night for 4 days. I got to do this with a couple of good friends Allie and Kellie. Anyhow while I was watching them at the theaters I was watching them at home with Riley too....it could be said I was Pottered Out! But none the less enjoyed every minute of it.
During this wizarding-palooza, I had told someone I was letting Ri at the tender age of 3 watch them. And they looked at me with a bit of shock and asked if he was afraid. I said no, and without thinking told him that he watched Night of the Living Dead with me at Halloween. And slowly I saw her face change from total disbelief to as if she was being eaten by a zombie....next post.....
I question my parenting techniques sometimes. I just wondering if I am doing the right thing.
So lets kick off with the hero of the selection.....Harry Potter. The Harry Potter series has been out for sometime. I started reading the books after watching the first film and falling in love with the wizard world. By the time I got to the 4 book I was already ready for the next one. So when I found out I was pregnant with Ri was excited that I could share these with my son. There are so many books/movies that I would love to enjoy with him and this is one of them.
Ri has turned into me a giant movie fanatic. There are days we have movie and pj days and we can sit and watch movies all days. At 3...I am impressed how he can sit for a movie. Maybe he turned into a movie kid considering he went to his first one when he was like 6 days old. (Parenting choice one I questioned for a long time). We took him to Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skulls. I was worried it would hurt his hearing....I muffled his little head with a blanket and he slept the whole time.
Anyhow....he watched an episode of Wizards of Waverly Place and seemed to really enjoy the magic of it. So I said well you want to watch Harry Potter (HP) with me and that has some pretty awesome magic too. He of course refused. Until recently, HP was coming out with the last installment of movies. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2. In honor of this everything went HP. Some Family Channel was playing all the HPs back to back to back. Riley sat and started to watch one very intently. I told him that if he wanted to watch from the beginning we could. And he was genuinely excited about it.
In addition to this soon to be HP fest at home, I was going to have a HP fest of my own. A few select theaters were showing all 8 movies - 2 movies a night for 4 days. I got to do this with a couple of good friends Allie and Kellie. Anyhow while I was watching them at the theaters I was watching them at home with Riley too....it could be said I was Pottered Out! But none the less enjoyed every minute of it.
During this wizarding-palooza, I had told someone I was letting Ri at the tender age of 3 watch them. And they looked at me with a bit of shock and asked if he was afraid. I said no, and without thinking told him that he watched Night of the Living Dead with me at Halloween. And slowly I saw her face change from total disbelief to as if she was being eaten by a zombie....next post.....
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