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Well, it's official - Pirates of the Caribbean is too intense for our little one. We got as far as Elizabeth's scene on the pirate ship (with Barbossa and his apple) and the moonlight transformation of the Black Pearl's cursed crew, and she jumped and hid her face against Harry's shirt, saying, tell me when they're gone. So I shut off the DVD and we talked with her about how it's okay if something's too grown up for her right now, that she can always see it later, and that the four of us can always go see Shrek instead... and come Thursday night, Lisha can stay here with Beth (she already offered) while the rest of us go off to see PotC3.
And Lisha's fine with that. But it makes me realize how much I have to rethink things I've always taken for granted: what I read, what I watch on TV, the movies I see. That I have to be aware of what is and isn't appropriate for Lisha, of what I might not blink at but that might give her nightmares. I guess it's easier when you have them from infancy onward - you get accustomed very early to the idea of age-appropriate and what is not - whereas I have to struggle to remind myself that no, Lisha is not Kim's age, and is not going to react well to animate corpses and the like.
I guess this means Lord of the Rings is out for at least the next couple years - the orcs and ringwraiths and such. Damn.
And Lisha's fine with that. But it makes me realize how much I have to rethink things I've always taken for granted: what I read, what I watch on TV, the movies I see. That I have to be aware of what is and isn't appropriate for Lisha, of what I might not blink at but that might give her nightmares. I guess it's easier when you have them from infancy onward - you get accustomed very early to the idea of age-appropriate and what is not - whereas I have to struggle to remind myself that no, Lisha is not Kim's age, and is not going to react well to animate corpses and the like.
I guess this means Lord of the Rings is out for at least the next couple years - the orcs and ringwraiths and such. Damn.