Scarring your kids

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jokershady
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8:10a, 10/22/23
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Every Halloween we always try to introduce one or two new Halloween/scary movies to our kids…..got 3 boys from middle school to kindergarten and decided to up our game this year and showed them all The Ring.

None of them wanted to go to sleep afterwards nor sleep by themselves….it was hilarious….but amazingly none of them ran off…..my middle son who was sitting right next to me though could've been this:



Y'all try and scare your kids this time of year with new movies or are we just sadistic as crap?
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8:23a, 10/22/23
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I don't sleep that well as it is. The last thing I need is a kid waking me up because they got scared in the middle of the night.
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8:38a, 10/22/23
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Father in law showed my wife the Tim Curry IT at age 7 and Exorcist at age 6….

I plan on sending him a bill on his deathbed.
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8:47a, 10/22/23
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Had to spend half an hour putting my 7 year old to bed last night after the mausoleum scene in the Eddie Murphy haunted mansion
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8:58a, 10/22/23
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The Ring to a kindergartner? No thanks.
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9:33a, 10/22/23
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I LOVED scary movies as a kid. Less than 10 years old watching Nightmare on Elm Street, Poltergeist, Exorcist...all of them. Loved them all and didn't wind up scarred.
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Vince Blake
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9:42a, 10/22/23
I want to show my 10 and 12yo Nightmare on Elm Street 3my favorite NoES. Wife is not having it. Honestly think my kids would find it more silly than scary.
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In reply to AJ02 • 9:44a, 10/22/23
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Same.
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In reply to Vince Blake • 11:11a, 10/22/23
Vince Blake said:
I want to show my 10 and 12yo Nightmare on Elm Street 3my favorite NoES. Wife is not having it. Honestly think my kids would find it more silly than scary.

Not sure it will scar them, but there's a certain scene with a nurse that might awaken something in them.

And even if they do get scared, there's a chance they will randomly start dropping the catchphrase "Welcome to Prime Time, *****" which is worth the tradeoff.
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11:30a, 10/22/23
For a PG-13 movie The Gate (1987) scared the crap out of me as a kid.
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11:51a, 10/22/23
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In reply to Proposition Joe • 2:15p, 10/22/23
Proposition Joe said:
Vince Blake said:
I want to show my 10 and 12yo Nightmare on Elm Street 3my favorite NoES. Wife is not having it. Honestly think my kids would find it more silly than scary.

Not sure it will scar them, but there's a certain scene with a nurse that might awaken something in them.

And even if they do get scared, there's a chance they will randomly start dropping the catchphrase "Welcome to Prime Time, *****" which is worth the tradeoff.

First scene I was thinking of was the topless blonde rolling around the ceiling.

Can teach the boys you gotta take the good with the bad.
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2:52p, 10/22/23
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Last week, my 13 y/o daughter wanted to watch a scary movie so we picked "A Nightmare on Elm Street." It wasn't that scary and actually more funny. Some commentary during the movie about "why would you do that?" etc, etc. We actually have running joke along the lines of, "I'm your boyfriend now", except insert something else in there. (Softball glove, water bottle, etc)

Pretty fun actually. We started watching the 2nd one and she was bored but wants to war h the first one again.
Double Talkin' Jive...
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Sometimes I wonder if I'm making all the best decisions as a Dad and truly doing the best my kids. Then I read messed up **** like this and realize I'm crushing it.
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Vince Blake
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In reply to Proposition Joe • 3:09p, 10/22/23
Proposition Joe said:
Vince Blake said:
I want to show my 10 and 12yo Nightmare on Elm Street 3my favorite NoES. Wife is not having it. Honestly think my kids would find it more silly than scary.

Not sure it will scar them, but there's a certain scene with a nurse that might awaken something in them.

And even if they do get scared, there's a chance they will randomly start dropping the catchphrase "Welcome to Prime Time, *****" which is worth the tradeoff.

LOL! I forgot about the nurse scene!
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3:40p, 10/22/23
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3:54p, 10/22/23
OP, show them Pet Semetary tonight. A good time for the whole family!!
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4:04p, 10/22/23
Back in the 80s we were watching Jason Vorhees and Mike Myers in third grade. Sure you might not sleep for a couple of nights, but before long you and your friends will be strapping knives to your fingers and playing Freddy Krueger. It's all in good fun.
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In reply to jokershady • 4:49p, 10/22/23
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jokershady said:
None of them wanted to go to sleep afterwards nor sleep by themselves….it was hilarious….but amazingly none of them ran off…..
yeah, less alone time in bed with the wife sounds like an extremely awesome and hilarious time.

Nothing says your kids are well adjusted like making them too scared to sleep alone.

You're setting your kids up to be creepy blackshirts who get into dorky D&D level stuff and comic con cosplay.
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In reply to The Collective • 6:57p, 10/22/23
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The Collective said:
The Ring to a kindergartner? No thanks.
fair point but my kindergartner LOVES to be scared so I wasn't worried….he also is our thrill ride addict so that must have something to do with it….
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In reply to Al Bula • 7:02p, 10/22/23
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David Happymountain said:
jokershady said:
None of them wanted to go to sleep afterwards nor sleep by themselves….it was hilarious….but amazingly none of them ran off…..
yeah, less alone time in bed with the wife sounds like an extremely awesome and hilarious time.

Nothing says your kids are well adjusted like making them too scared to sleep alone.

You're setting your kids up to be creepy blackshirts who get into dorky D&D level stuff and comic con cosplay.
just wait….I have plans to ruin Christmas this year and show them Krampus when they think I'm putting on Nightmare Before Christmas….

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7:11p, 10/22/23
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When my daughter was 4 or so, she came to me and said she'd had a nightmare about these little green monsters that we had watched on TV many months prior, around Christmas time. At first my reaction was I'm not showing you monster movies, then I recalled that we had watched Gremlins (fast forwarded to the one part where Santa is discussed).

When Spielberg re-released Jurassic Park in 3D, I went to see it without my daughter, who was 6 at the time. When the raptors chase the kids in the kitchen, I noticed my heart was racing, and thought there would be no way I was letting my kid watch this movie anytime soon. Two weeks or so later we put the DVD in the player and watched it. She loved that movie and never had any scarring issues with it. Now she routinely watches scary movies, many of which I won't touch, demonic stuff like The Conjuring.

Looking forward to this Friday, where she and I are heading to the local Alamo to watch the original Halloween.
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In reply to The Collective • 9:44p, 10/22/23
The Collective said:
The Ring to a kindergartner? No thanks.


Follow up should have been dusting off the VCR in the attic and putting in a VHS.
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In reply to Cinco Ranch Aggie • 11:04p, 10/22/23
Cinco Ranch Aggie said:
When my daughter was 4 or so, she came to me and said she'd had a nightmare about these little green monsters that we had watched on TV many months prior, around Christmas time. At first my reaction was I'm not showing you monster movies, then I recalled that we had watched Gremlins (fast forwarded to the one part where Santa is discussed).

When Spielberg re-released Jurassic Park in 3D, I went to see it without my daughter, who was 6 at the time. When the raptors chase the kids in the kitchen, I noticed my heart was racing, and thought there would be no way I was letting my kid watch this movie anytime soon. Two weeks or so later we put the DVD in the player and watched it. She loved that movie and never had any scarring issues with it. Now she routinely watches scary movies, many of which I won't touch, demonic stuff like The Conjuring.

Looking forward to this Friday, where she and I are heading to the local Alamo to watch the original Halloween.


When my son was in either third or fourth grade, we watched Jurassic Park. My daughter was only in kindergarten, so we decided to watch it after she went to bed. Anyways, when the Trex scene comes where he rips the guy on the toilet in half, I hear a voice in the hallway scream, "Yessss!!!!!" My daughter had snuck out of bed to watch it, and she absolutely loved it. The only part she found scary was when the boy was on the electric fence. Dinosaurs eating people, though, she was all about.
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This reminds me of a prank that was common in the dorms after the Ring came out. Tune the TV to a channel with poor or no signal and jack the volume up, then steal the remote and wait until the victim is asleep before turning it on. Classic.

OP should absolutely try this on his kindergartener.
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8:00a, 10/23/23
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This thread reminded me of this prank:

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Y'all ain't ***** I let my kids watch all Aggie sports with me.
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#1 said:
The Collective said:
The Ring to a kindergartner? No thanks.


Follow up should have been dusting off the VCR in the attic and putting in a VHS.


Just randomly have it come on in their bedroom at night.
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11:02a, 10/23/23
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This thread reminded me of something I saw on instagram yesterday:



https://www.instagram.com/p/CyjIZQ3Pllf/?igshid=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
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In reply to Ol_Ag_02 • 11:36a, 10/23/23
Ol_Ag_02 said:
Sometimes I wonder if I'm making all the best decisions as a Dad and truly doing the best my kids. Then I read messed up **** like this and realize I'm crushing it.


Me as a dad normally:

Me as a dad after reading these threads:
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12:18p, 10/23/23
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The Ring? No thanks. We did watch Earnest Scared Stupid, though.

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12:55p, 10/23/23
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The Ring may have been a bit much. It scared the hell out of me when I watched it...at 30-something. Those quick glances of the victims were creepy enough, but the whole well / tv scene was literally spine tingling, hair-raising "nope" for me.

Getting past the 80's skin stuff, most of that horror was more campy and funny than scary. I'd much rather watch Friday 13th, Nightmare or Halloween than mind-F stuff like The Ring or Prince of Darkness.
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4:05p, 10/23/23
I showed my elementary school age kids Jacob's Ladder after depriving them of sleep for 48 hours. Had a couple uncles with severe PTSD over for the watch party.
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In reply to Sapper Redux • 6:56a, 10/24/23
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I busted a gut so hard laughing at this. Much appreciated good sir!!
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