Have your young kids watched old (1940's) cartoons? Three Stooges?
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For the same reason Superman would stand there with hands on hips, smirking at the crook emptying his six gun at him, bullets bouncing off his chest...but then duck out of the way when the crook threw the empty gun at him.
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Originally Posted by Patrolman
Urban legend.
Not U L, guido is right. I have all the old Superman episodes(George Reeves). In several of them, that is exactly what happens.
In some of the Superman cartoons, he carries airplanes, rocket ships, picks up glaciers...but then he seems to struggle catching a car that some villian throws at him!
For the same reason Superman would stand there with hands on hips, smirking at the crook emptying his six gun at him, bullets bouncing off his chest...but then duck out of the way when the crook threw the empty gun at him.
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Originally Posted by Patrolman
Urban legend.
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Originally Posted by NYJoe
Not U L, guido is right. I have all the old Superman episodes(George Reeves). In several of them, that is exactly what happens.
What I remember about that is that if the thrown gun was going to hit him in the chest, Superman would let it hit him in the chest and bounce off, but if was going to hit him in the face, he'd duck. I guess that even invulnerable Superman doesn't care to take a thrown handgun in the face. I can understand that.
My son watches and loves them but he is really good at telling real from fake and always has been. He isn’t one of those children who freaks out about everything either - I think this one may fall to parental discretion. If your child can handle it, let them. If not, don’t.
My grandsons have just had a little bit of exposure to old Tom and Jerry and Three Stooges. Not by my decision. We had a recent visit from my brothers (the kids' great uncles) who were excited about watching their childhood favorite cartoons and shorts via my son in law's huge flat screen TV. It's almost like watching it in a mini theater. Grandsons TV exposure is minimal, always closely supervised. Mostly we read to them or let them play outside. They never missed TV. They have NEVER seen this stuff before.
Now, thanks to Tom and Jerry, oldest grandson (aged 4 1/2) is fixated about "losing his teeth". Cartoon characters had that happen often, but seeing some poor dog's teeth pop out like popcorn totally freaked him, big time. I have to reassure him that being hit on the head or biting down hard WON'T make that happen. Teeth are fixated deep in his jaw bone to stay put. I showed him pictures as such. They won't fall out. And if it DID happen, we'd rush him to the dentist where the dentist could put them back. He still has baby teeth. I don't want him freaking out about this! I'm hearing at least five times a day, "What happened to the doggy's teeth?" Telling him, it's only a cartoon, doesn't cut it.
That doesn't sound like a frightened child. I think he understood your explanation. It sounds like he enjoyed something about your reaction, may have been extra attention or maybe he just enjoys triggering you. Telling him it's only a cartoon doesn't cut it because that is not the reaction he's trying to manipulate from you.
Now, thanks to Tom and Jerry, oldest grandson (aged 4 1/2) is fixated about "losing his teeth". Cartoon characters had that happen often, but seeing some poor dog's teeth pop out like popcorn totally freaked him, big time. I have to reassure him that being hit on the head or biting down hard WON'T make that happen. Teeth are fixated deep in his jaw bone to stay put. I showed him pictures as such. They won't fall out. And if it DID happen, we'd rush him to the dentist where the dentist could put them back. He still has baby teeth. I don't want him freaking out about this!
Why would you tell a 4 year old that his teeth aren't going to fall out? They're baby teeth, they are going to fall out. And when they do start falling out, no one is going to rush him to the dentist to have his teeth put back in. Even if he had an accident, and knocked a tooth out, the dentist isn't going to put it back in. I see no reason to lie to a kid about this.
I would be so annoyed if my mother or MIL said such a thing to one of my children. What happens when they do lose a tooth? They're going to freak out even more because grandma said it couldn't happen. And then they'll want to go to the dentist, because grandma said... Then I have to explain to my child how grandma is a liar. That's not a conversation I'm interested in having.
"It's just pretend," would probably have sufficed. He's 4. Tell him cartoons are pretend and then move on to something else.
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