Nobody wants to scare their kids, not really. They're always far too young to know of the horrors of the world and should be shelatred form it, and comforted with nice things. They should get scared.
Unless they're really, really into it.
We're cycling through the first few seasons of the Shaun the Sheep series and it's is something like 80 7-minute episodes, but it also didn't take the little one long to find her favourites and episode 20 is definitely one of them.
It's named 'Things That Go Bump In The Night', but she just calls it 'THE SCARY ONE', and it freaks her out. She knows it's just Bitzer under the sheet at the start - 'he not a monster, Dad, he a DOG' - and she knows it's just those naughty pigs playing a prank for much of the episode, but she is still absolutely delighted with fear when the pumpkin comes wandering in.
Sometimes it's such an excitement overload that she has to run out of the room and goes stands in our tiny hallway, declaring how very much not scared she is the whole time.
I promised I wasn't going to turn our child into one of those annoying hipster 8-year-old kids who is so pissed that her dumb old parents won't let her watch the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but it looks like it might happen anyway.
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