About a month back, Ryan had a gig - and my brother and sister-in-law invited me to come out to dinner and use their babysitter for the night. Since it was so last minute, I decided to take the Cashman with me, and let Jack stay to play with his nieces and nephew under "the babysitter's" supervision.
My brother has 3 kids: 12, 9, and 6 and Jack adores everything about them. They are the best - they play and give Jack all the attention he could ever ask for. I didn't think he would be much trouble for the babysitter, since he is his niece's and nephew's shadow when he is around them - and they are great about keeping track of him and what he is up to.
Half way through the night, we get a phone call from the youngest daughter that the oldest boy is watching the new batman movie, The Dark Knight, and she is too scared to watch. Nothing big - the youngest just loves to call her mom and give her updates on what she is doing while her parents are on date night. We usually get 5 to 6 of these random phone calls, so I thought nothing of it.
A week goes by and suddenly Jack starts describing to me various scenes involving "the scary Joker" and "the good guy Batman". I know Jack knows who they are because of McDonald happymeal toys, but the details he starts describing over and over make me wonder. There is no way the babysitter would let him watch that movie, right? But over the course of this last month, I have been piecing together each little story he tells me, and tonight he described the exact scene of when the joker blows up the Maggie Gyllenhall and Batman saves Aaron Eckhart.
So at this point, I have pretty much come to the conclusions that I paid some babysitter to let Jack watch either the majority of Dark Knight, or maybe the entire thing.
I'm not too concerned though. I mean, Jack has been prepped for this kind of stuff. Like when Thomas the Tank Engine derails and the chocolate syrup isn't going to get to the icecream factory in time, or Dora has to say three times: "swiper no swipey!" to keep the fox from taking the magic key she needs to save a puppy, or when the mini monster trucks get all muddy and have to go through the carnival car wash so they can still do donuts...
Yeah it is just a natural progression to then have him see a man in a dark hooded outfit who talks in a raspy voice and is beating everyone up while someone with crazy clown makeup on his face is shooting people and blowing people up.
They just grow up so fast, don't they?
6 comments:
Oh my goodness is he having nightmares?! That movie is so creepy! Poor innocence lost!
Oh no, we had a similar babysitter experience with Jane awhile back...not as scary of movie thank goodness, but it was still a movie that Jane didn't want to watch and was begging the babysitter to turn it off. That movie scared me, hopefully he's alright.
At least the babysitter didn't let him watch something that'd be REALLY scarring like, say, How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days or The Ya Ya Sisterhood.
this is so awful. sad. you are pretty funny in the desription. :)
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Oh my, the things I have to look forward to! That is a horrible movie to have a child see! Look on the bright side...at least it wasn't Debbie does Dallas (porn) :)
It sounds like the babysitter not only let him watch it, but talked him through the complexities of the plot.
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