Many of you know that Logan and Ava from the time they were young have not been able to view whatever they please as most kids have.
So movies like Transformers, things like that were not on the map, anything violent and or any movie over sexed, trying to keep their minds from being corrupted anymore than need be at a young age.
Now over the last few years we have been trying to slowly introducing themes and movies to them that we feel they might can handle now and we're seeing how maybe we were wrong in this idea we had.
Logan really has no issues, his brain is wired very different. Ava , OH MY GOD, this child is an absolute train wreck if she sees something frightening or scary. I am talking shaking, screaming, melt down mode.
Ava DOES NOT like being alone at all. She hates the dark which started last year for NO reason.
By her age I had seen Jaws, Alien and so on. Not the best movies for little kids to see but Ava is almost 10 so we decided to maybe start to desensitize her a bit. NO GO. I wanted her to be protected from seeing violence and things children SHOULDN'T see, PERIOD but now we are at the other end of the spectrum and I have no clue how to calm her, she knows it's not real but it doesn't help
Movies we've tried
Jaws - they were fine with the naked chick swimming being eaten BUT OMG the boy on the yellow raft getting eaten, they both screamed and cried
Sleepy hollow, Logan was fine, Ava was fine til the real first seen of head lopping then screaming ensued with shaking
Maximum Overdrive : I mean the special effects in the 80's weren't great. Kids thought the beginning was great because it was filmed in Wilmington NC and they have been over the bridge in the beginning BUT the scene where the turkey slicer cuts the waitresses arm and blood comes out, Ava again starts to scream and shake and saying STOP IT
Alien ( last night ) Everything was fine until that icon dinner scene where the alien makes his little debut out of Kane's stomach, OH BOY.
You might think we are bad parents for this but something's got to give, At least my kids haven't seen these movies and worse by the time they were 8 and 9 like a lot of their classmates and neighbors have.
I am happy to a point where she is not desensitized but it's getting a little aggravating
Any ideas ?
Picture above reflects the next 10 yrs of her life where My little pony, spongebob and and that stuff will continue to deflect all that fear
