I am now never going to hear "Womanizer" without thinking of your son singing "Ninjanizer." Pat, my fiance, who is nearly as into Star Wars as your near and dear, laughed pretty hard when I read him the part about Fin trying to "force choke" you now (after I explained this is a nearly 3 yr old).
This post was almost as good as the one with 'the worst baby vomit story ever told'
Yeah, he wants to use the force for everything (which involves alot of parent-assisted deception). The upside is that I've told him that if he's bad, the force won't work. Heh.
11:06 AM
I have to start by saying that my kids don't watch a lot of TV. When the TV upstairs broke, that pretty much weaned us off of our biggest viewing times, in the early AM and before naps and bed. I enjoyed our few months without a bedroom TV and the kids and I started our day with music instead. I'm happy to say that the behemoth didn't change that much. Now we start our days with music videos instead.
(The only downside to that is that Fin is overly fond (read: obsessed) with the Britney Spears "Womanizer" video. Only he INSISTS that they're saying "Ninjanizer". So all day I hear "Ninjanizer, Ninjanizer, oh you're a Ninjanizer..." And no, he cannot explain to me what a Ninjanizer is although he seems to think he is one.)
Anyway, we don't watch a ton of TV. But with Brooks out of town this past week, I started putting movies on for them as a way to unwind before bed. I'm not big with censoring things for them. Fin loves Star Wars and will watch pretty much anything. He's never had a nightmare or really repeated any foul language.
(Although I would like to thank "It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown" for introducing the term "blockhead" and I could do without the attempts at "force choking" me when he's mad.)
One day a few weeks ago when we were watching "Oswald", there came an episode where his best friend, Henry, almost moved away. Fin was beside himself. I was almost unable to get him to calm down enough to watch the end of the show. He's a pretty sensitive kid.
Which should have been my first clue that he shouldn't watch Bambi.
In a fit of guilt over some of the more colorful things I have let him watch lately (I did distract him from watching when the alien jumped out of the dude's chest), I decided that we'd try and stick to some Disney movies. I gave him some options and he, of course, chose Bambi.
So I'd like to thank Disney for my son's panic over hunters and where Bambi's mother went.
I scanned my kids shelf. Nemo, Dumbo, Fox and Hound, Land before Time, Aristocats...I could go on and on. All these movies involve sinister plots (usually by people) to kill/eat/wear the animals. There is parental danger/death/abandonment left and right. And I should be worried about my kid watching Star Wars? Seriously WTF?? The only movies I have on the "safe side" side of the shelf are The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking and Labyrinth.
And a Pippi viewing results in a week of "running away" threats.
Thankfully Brooks is back at home. He's got some magic mojo going on that enables him to get the kids to sleep in the blink of an eye (Ninjanizer, Ninjanizer, yeah he's a Ninjanizer).
"The Ninjanizer's TV Viewing Habits"
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I am now never going to hear "Womanizer" without thinking of your son singing "Ninjanizer." Pat, my fiance, who is nearly as into Star Wars as your near and dear, laughed pretty hard when I read him the part about Fin trying to "force choke" you now (after I explained this is a nearly 3 yr old).
This post was almost as good as the one with 'the worst baby vomit story ever told'
9:44 AM
Yeah, he wants to use the force for everything (which involves alot of parent-assisted deception). The upside is that I've told him that if he's bad, the force won't work. Heh.
11:06 AM