Films for a six year old boy to watch

[AverageJoe]

But it is a pain in the arse when they can't sleep because of it.

 

[Orang Utan]

he woke up at 1.30 cos he had a nightmare about the thumbs

 

[Reno]

This is all you need

I hate The Goonies.

Annoying bunch of brats screaming their heads off from beginning to end.

 

[Bajie]

I liked Goonies when I was 10 years old, which is it's target audience, 6 is too young though.

Some of the Scooby Doo films are good for younger children, not the non-cartoon aberrations of satan but the cartoon films like Scooby Doo and the goblin king.

Tom and Jerry films will keep a 6 years old amused as well, like Nutcracker Tale, Tom and Jerry The Movie and Blast off to Mars. They tend to tone down the violence more than the old school Tom & Jerry cartoons.

 

[friedaweed]

I hate The Goonies.

Annoying bunch of brats screaming their heads off from beginning to end.

Dead to me

 

[nagapie]

he woke up at 1.30 cos he had a nightmare about the thumbs

Your sister is going to kill you

 

[Orang Utan]

We watched Ponyo this afternoon and he loved it.
So, as usual I have totally ignored everyone's advice. Soz and ta!

 

[miss direct]

Roald Dahl films... James and the Giant Peach is a good one with a boy as the main character

 

[Orang Utan]

Your sister is going to kill you

she was just grateful for the babysitting. she was also exhausted as she'd just spent the weekend in the country with childless friends and they insisted on doing stuff

 

[nagapie]

she was just grateful for the babysitting. she was also exhausted as she'd just spent the weekend in the country with childless friends and they insisted on doing stuff

I was just joking. Overnight babysitter is living the dream.

 

[Orang Utan]

you know i shall happy to do it for you when he is and I am old enough

 

[weepiper]

I was just joking. Overnight babysitter is living the dream.

Innit. One of my colleagues at work was telling me he and his wife have done overnight babysits for his friend's 6-month-old twins a couple of times. I don't think he realises quite what a good friend that makes him!

 

[Orang Utan]

wut? being asked to look after kids is an honour! and at least babies sleep a lot and don't talk. looking after school age kids is the big ask. i'm so fucking knackered after 32 hours with the little fella. i genuinely don't know how parents do this without losing their minds.

 

[Corax]

Other way round for me. Babies are cute, but essentially boring. I'd fret more babysitting a baby too. Once they're old enough to talk they're much better company, and there's a real joy in introducing them to new stuff, whether that's looking through an encyclopaedia, playing a game, or even just a food they've not tried before.

I miss my boy terribly on Sunday nights tbh.

 

[nagapie]

you know i shall happy to do it for you when he is and I am old enough

If you being old enough means we don't want to go to the same party when we ask you to babysit, then we'll be too old to need you

 

[trashpony]

I was going to say Ponyo - that's a good one.

I know it's been mentioned before but Five Children and It is ace and not really scary. My boy has no desire to watch anything with ghosts or scary stuff in it and he is 5 in two weeks. He has given away one of his Meg and Mog books for World Book Day because there is a ghost in the story

Some kids find stuff more scary than other kids do. And there's nothing wrong with that, the only bad thing is ridiculing or belittling their fear.

 

[Orang Utan]

Other way round for me. Babies are cute, but essentially boring. I'd fret more babysitting a baby too. Once they're old enough to talk they're much better company, and there's a real joy in introducing them to new stuff, whether that's looking through an encyclopaedia, playing a game, or even just a food they've not tried before.

I miss my boy terribly on Sunday nights tbh.

yeah, i get that, though i imagine one feels it more keenly if you are the actual parent.

 

[Orang Utan]

I was going to say Ponyo - that's a good one.

I know it's been mentioned before but Five Children and It is ace and not really scary. My boy has no desire to watch anything with ghosts or scary stuff in it and he is 5 in two weeks. He has given away one of his Meg and Mog books for World Book Day because there is a ghost in the story

Some kids find stuff more scary than other kids do. And there's nothing wrong with that, the only bad thing is ridiculing or belittling their fear.

yeah, he's deffo scared of supernatural and uncanny things, but it's hard for me to tell exactly what he's gonna be frightened of. it's totally idiosyncratic. my younger brother was scared of glove puppets/sooty/men with beards who weren't my dad, and i was scared, or at least unsettled by, lassie and playschool.

 

[Corax]

yeah, i get that, though i imagine one feels it more keenly if you are the actual parent.

Not biologically, but in every other way that counts.

 

[Orang Utan]

Not biologically, but in every other way that counts.

heh, for sure. my nephew is not biologically mine either. biology schmiology.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

yeah, he's deffo scared of supernatural and uncanny things, but it's hard for me to tell exactly what he's gonna be frightened of. it's totally idiosyncratic. my younger brother was scared of glove puppets/sooty/men with beards who weren't my dad, and i was scared, or at least unsettled by, lassie and playschool.

I think a poll is needed on what films/tv characters scared you when you were a kid.

Can't say anything scared me though.

Pogo will probably say it's been done already

 

[Corax]

I don't remember anything from the screen scaring me much. I read a lot as a kid though, and my imagination created a whole set of terrors of my very own that came to the fore when the lights went out. There was an entire universe of good and evil creatures of my own creation battling it out in my bedroom.

 

[AverageJoe]

There still is in mine!

 

[Belushi]

i was scared, or at least unsettled by, lassie and playschool.

Was it you who was terrified by the arched window?

 

[Orang Utan]

I was scared by all shapes really. What scared me was all that uncertainty.

 

[Miss Caphat]

when I was scared of something in a movie as a kid, I would watch it from behind the couch, or hide behind a pillow.
when I watched The Exorcist for the first time in my early 20's, I was so scared I went and watched it outside through the big picture window in the living room.

 

[discokermit]

i was once scared by derek dougan's moustache.

 

[discokermit]

shoulda watched thunderpants, by the way.

 

[trashpony]

I was scared by all shapes really. What scared me was all that uncertainty.

There is a programme on CBeebies called Mister Maker and there are a load of shapes that are asleep, they wake them up and then one of them gets chosen to make a picture. The foal used to be really, really scared of that

 

[discokermit]

or baise moi.