I found the source of the ghost: a Little Golden Book in which the Sesame Street characters put on a play about feelings. To demonstrate “scared”, Telly Monster cowers under the bed while other Muppets wear costumes showing scary things like tigers and thunderstorms. Ernie is wearing a ghost costume (the bedsheet with cut out eyes) but his face is covered, so I could see why Hambet didn’t realize it was Ernie.
\nSo we had a little chat about how they’re just putting on a play, that it was Ernie in the costume and that Telly was just pretending to be frightened, and we have had two nights free of ghosts and monsters.
\nI am just kicking myself because I know<\/i> I have to be attentive to what Hambet is seeing, I know<\/i> little kids don’t see things the same way we do, and I still missed this. Oh well, it’s not the end of the world, and Hambet doesn’t seem to be scarred for life. I have shelved a lot of our potentially scarier home media (most purchased for me before Hambet was born; I love animated movies) and I’ll be looking for gentler stories for evenings when we want to cuddle up and see a video together. (I’m thinking Veggies and Winnie-the-Pooh; more suggestions welcome….)
\nIt is interesting that we’ve been reading this book for months and this only came up now. A friend of mine observed that stories that don’t bother her three-year-old son will really affect her five-year-old son, and she thinks it’s because her older boy just understands more. And I think the same is true for Hambet. Just in the last three months he’s been doing so much more imaginative and pretend play, and it would stand to reason that if he’s making up his own stories, he’s also taking in more and understanding more of the stories he reads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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