Most little kids can't make that distinction quite so easily. The ability to delineate between fact and fantasy kicks in properly by about age 7 (depending on the child.)
Going on my own experience with kids and TV the things that frighten them aren't the obviously macabre ones, (although you might be asked 'did this really happen?')it's the things that possibly could happen to them in their own lives - war, violence in the home, parental discord, that kind of thing. They're more bothered by news bulletins than by stories/movies, usually.
(Although I had nightmares about The Blob for a very long time.)
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Date: 2006-04-29 03:16 am (UTC)Going on my own experience with kids and TV the things that frighten them aren't the obviously macabre ones, (although you might be asked 'did this really happen?')it's the things that possibly could happen to them in their own lives - war, violence in the home, parental discord, that kind of thing. They're more bothered by news bulletins than by stories/movies, usually.
(Although I had nightmares about The Blob for a very long time.)