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“Cuban Family, from a personal project I shot in Havana, Cuba.”
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Well, being the "cool" parent has come back to bite me a bit. Apparently one of the kids has been talking about ghostbusters at childcare and scaring the other kids because they don't know what's going on. I saw it first hand on the weekend when we ran into a family from the centre. My kid was asking theirs if she knew Mighty Max, which was your typical cartoon for Polly-Pocket-for-boys. I had to explain that no other kid has seen Mighty Max and we've had a larger conversation with the kids that they can only talk about ghostbusters, liquid robot (Terminator 2), and those other shows with mum and dad because the other kids haven't seen it.
Of course, this means the issue is the other kids haven't watched these movies, but that's a harder problem to solve.
Lol that's kind of funny honestly. I do sometimes wonder how much gets translated through them when were not around. Like, they've been ubsessed with Batman The Animated Series for a while. That show isn't all that graphic, but it sure does have a cast of weirdo and freakish bad guys, along with a lot of gun action.
My girlfriend says it's trauma because they want to expose themselves to it again and talk about it to make sense of what they've just seen. They're taking it pretty well for trauma if that's the case.
She also says kids cent tell the difference between stories and real life until they're about 8 so that's why the other kids are getting freaked out