Originally posted by Lunarcat
actually, it is quite traumatic. maybe not for our generation because we're desensitized to these things. But my drama teacher always tells the story of how he went to see bambi when he was little and he cried to loud his parents had to take him outside xD
That's because we shelter our kids these days--at least for the first eight or so years. Yes, they see some violent previews, may play video games that have mock violence, but many kids have never seen a film or read a book where they get attached to the characters and first learn the real impact of violence. All the movies are so sunny today--Enchanted, The Spongebob Movie, Holes, Shrek 3, Because of Winn-Dixie, etc. Not to mention T.V. shows like Hanna Montana . We live in a safe, fuzzy world. I was just at the library when a mother was asking the librarian for books for her eight-year-old "where the dog doesn't die". Reading Where the Red Fern Grows helped me deal with my own pets' death and subsequently my great-grandmother's.