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Milba Vanpatten
Planning to have a movie afternoon tomorrow for DD and me. She is six but she scares easily. Extremely easily. and if anything scares her then she will refuse for the next few days to leave my side. As in she won't even be able to go to the toilet on her own let alone sleep.
a few examples of what scares her: paw patrol scares her even though She loves it. As do some episodes of Ben and holly and Peter Rabbit. With Paddington she started crying (though I admit that Nicole Kidman's character was freaky). Lion king (new) we didn't even get beyond the trailer. For some reason she's ok with Frozen so we keep watching that. Something along the lines of Peppa Pig but a movie.
She wants to see Moana but I've heard there is a scary underwater scene. How bad is it?
I'd be very grateful for suggestions. It doesn't have to be netflix though I'd be very happy if I don't have to pay for it.
Thank you so much!!
Good idea. Thank you!! She does love Tinkerbell. We haven't seen the movie but we've got a little book with an abridged version.
Our DDs sound alike. Mine also gets scared by the ocean (or a picture of it). Also big ships and boats (in books, on screens and in real life). Sometimes it's really random things.
There are so many Tinkerbell movies. I had no idea. And the first movie is the most expensive option of course. Sigh.
I couldn't find them on Netflix. But I can never find any movie I'm interested in on Netflix. I don't really use it so maybe I'm doing something wrong.
I am reminded of an interview I saw with Nicole Kidman where she described excitedly telling her children "Mummy's going to be in a lovely movie for children acting with a lovely cuddly teddy bear from Darkest Peru!" "Ooh! Who do you play Mummy? Are you the teddy bear's friend?"
.......long pause......
"and then I realised, my children can never see this movie"
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