He´s only 10. I consider it can cause him harm and fears inside his head. That strange little monster sacares me to death. My husband thinks the same, but my son keeps telling me all of his freinds already watched it. What should I do?
2006-10-26 04:50:39 · 13 answers · asked by whothatBE 4 in Family & Relationships ➔ Family
omg. ok. deep breath. long answer:
to overprotect your son from things such as this will do him more harm than good.
he will simply go and watch it elsewhere and learn to be careful not to tell you about the things he knows you will not approve of.
to grow up in an overprotective household a child will learn what is/is not considered acceptable by the age of 10. will learn to be secretive and deceptive. will become curious about 'what everyone else does'.
i grew up in a household like this and i went to the furthest extreme i could find. (and i was a nice God fearing child). i deliberatly mixed with the wrong crowd, got into drinking, sex and drugs around 13/14. and was pregnant at 21.
the trust between myself and my parents was completely destroyed by overprotectiveness, as i rebelled against it....i am not alone. this happens all the time.
start now by letting your child watch ET.
he may be freaked out like you were/are. so what? it's part of him learning who he is/ what he does/doesn't like for himself.
it won't damage him in any way. i let my daughter watch it at 5. and she said....'that wasn't scary....what you on about'!
i wasn't allowed to watch ghostbusters at 12. but went to a friends house and watched Nightmare on Elm Street the next week.
Remember how it feels to be a kid. how you want all the experiences, good and bad. and let you son grow up knowing you are there for him, not against him.
2006-10-26 05:06:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was at 7 when i first saw the movie, then i saw it again when i was at 10. Both times i was afraid from E.t. but after a while I learned that there is nothing such as E.T. by my self. I faced my fears and i was succeeded to see it again at 14 and it was a funny movie by that time fo me. So let him discover his world and stop worrying about him. And remember that there will be the time that he have to face his own life by himself without you being there.
2006-10-26 05:07:13 · answer #2 · answered by DEER 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
E.T has been around since I was a child. I let my children watch it and my youngest was 7 when he watched it and right now today he loves that movie. I would let him watch it...I mean children now days are so much different now... Of course though..I would probally warn him that the lil monstrer scared you when you seen it, But let him make that choice on his own, and if he see's the lil alien and get's frightened then stop the movie. I would always let him at least try to watch it..You never know he might love it.
2006-10-26 04:58:40 · answer #3 · answered by mmarie1221 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm gonna have to go with "No" on Psycho and "Yes" on Failure to Launch, for the lovely irony. Pretty good chance, though, that he's watching porn and doesn't want to admit it. Tends to be difficult to admit that to moms. "The Last Samurai" is a favorite of mine. Some really nice battles, action packed guy stuff, but a lot of meaning and sentiment in it, too. Most of the meaning is respecting history and other ways of life. Anyway, it's a Great movie. You could watch it for the historical significance (as a great deal of it is based off of history), and he could watch it for the killing each other with swords part. I LOVE this movie. Very powerful, and very fun.
2016-03-28 08:13:54 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What you should do is let him see it, but once he starts to get frightened turn the movie off and talk to him and tell him that the monster isn't real.You can do that with all of the scarier movies he sees. It is very efficient.
2006-10-26 05:11:58 · answer #5 · answered by Andie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let him watch it. I let my 5 year old watch it and his is fine. As long as he is not sacred by things like that, he will be fine. Besides, it shows kids how to be a true friend and help each other.
2006-10-26 05:25:11 · answer #6 · answered by MICDYL 0 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
E.T. is a classic, and if my parents didn't let me see it things would be differnent. if it does scare him, take him to uviversal studios island of adventures and he will think differently about the movie.
2006-10-26 05:14:14 · answer #7 · answered by caseyboyette 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a nice, innocent movie.
I don't see any reason of keeping him off of it, only because you two are afraid of E.T.
2006-10-26 04:54:06 · answer #8 · answered by Alice_d 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I saw this when I was 3. I cried because it was sad, not because it was scary. E.T. is cute!
2006-10-26 05:18:42 · answer #9 · answered by ♥Jules♥ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I watched it when I was 8, and yeah, I cried when ET died, but then he came back to life..... it's okay to let him watch it. Only you know his maturity level (well, at least for children)....
2006-10-26 04:53:55 · answer #10 · answered by dollface 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋