So in addition to being asked if I'm a witch...

[celestialbeing1]

By my seven year old nephew, to which I replied only when I need to be...thus far I've learned that his mother is upset because she cut all of her jeans up for the summer, and now has to buy more for autumn, and that her weight keeps going up and down and she has to buy large knickers, mediums tops and small jeans

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[snapefan520]

Nah...if you get bad aunt of the year, then I probably get worst mom. I let my oldest son see all the POTC movies before he was 9, and he's seen all the HP movies (how could he not...I have them all and watch them often). And hubby has taken him to see all the Transformer movies.

I really use the movie ratings as a guide...my son has been able to handle most pg-13 for several years.

Hmm...does auntie know that he repeats everything he's said? I learned quickly that kids have diarrhea of the mouth. If I say it, they will repeat at the most inopportune moment...

[celestialbeing1]

And of course, just as I opened the screen to reply to this, I heard a loud THUMP THUMP BANG!!!! And had to come out of my room to see what this child was doing (running around in his underwear and flipping on the bed. It sounded like he was coming through the wall!)

Oh yeah he watched POTC with me, but it's some of the kids stuff that he'll ignore and MY movies he'll watch! Cloudy with a chance of meatballs? Loved the book as a kid, got the movie and thought we could watch it...nope...he wanted to climb all over me and my fiance's back :/

Diarrhea of the mouth...this kid has an ulcer! Repeats EVERYTHING and then comes up with stuff of his own accord. I swear, I think he has a writer for half the things he says because really, I don't know where it comes from.

I don't say anything in front of him that can come back to bite me in the butt, although he's put me on front street plenty of times...

"Auntie, where do you sleep when you go to Uncle's house?"
"Are yall SLEEPING together?!"

All in front of my mother.

[reg_flint]

There is nothing wrong exposing them to anything but explicit sex, which would make them howl "Grossssss!" and hide their eyes. Fairy tales can be so brutal, as can darker kids' movies. They have a blinder called innocence to protect them.

[celestialbeing1]

He asked me where babies come from, or rather, OUT, and I knew that he already knew but once I began telling him he got all squicked out and wanted me to be quiet.

Some of these films and shows purported for children now do make me wonder, to be honest. Even things that I came up on that definitely went over my head as a child, now I look at them and I'm like DAMN did they really make this for kids?

I didn't know about the unedited version of Grimm's fairytales until I was older, but even if I had at say, age six or so, I don't think I would have been traumatized.