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We tried Finding Nemo at age 3.5 or 4, and it was too soon for our twins. They were terrified of the opening sequence, and when we got to the shark we gave up. Then we traumatized them again with the Lion King musical when they were almost five.
We didn't try Disney again for another couple of years, and only watched them when little brother was asleep or elsewhere until he hit five or six. As a result they are all pretty woefully ignorant of a lot of Disney movies that their friends grew up with, so I know not everyone has this experience.
In the meantime, some videos they loved that I could stand to watch, too: Scooby Doo (especially the older ones--the more recent ones are less fun and more likely to be offensive); Animaniacs; Curious George.
My daughter is 2 and she enjoys such Disney Movies as Frozen, Little Mermaid, Finding Nemo, Jungle Book, Tangled, and the Television Series Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.
A few parts in Finding Nemo make her a little uneasy with the shark and the opening sequence but for the most part she gets over it real quick and it hasn't affected her from wanting to watch.
We are part of the Disney Movie Club and we also received the Tinkerbell movie about that Never Beast?... forget the title but I know it's a long one. She watched it a few times and I noticed a pattern that she'd have nightmares at night and wake up in the middle of the night completely freaking out.... The Never Beast seemed to make her uneasy, so for right now we've put that away.
The "princess" ones are not allowed in this house, but my kids like Finding Nemo, Cars, Planes, and a bunch of non Disney (non princess) movies too.
I am so thankful my kids are not scared of stuff! My son will sometimes look tense and he even screamed at that weird dog from Despicable Me, but it never lasts, no nightmares or anything. I can't even watch scary movie trailers without getting freaked out! I didn't want them to have that anxiety.
It really depends on the kid I guess and what YOU as the parent want to be impressed upon them.
The "princess" ones are not allowed in this house, but my kids like Finding Nemo, Cars, Planes, and a bunch of non Disney (non princess) movies too.
I am so thankful my kids are not scared of stuff! My son will sometimes look tense and he even screamed at that weird dog from Despicable Me, but it never lasts, no nightmares or anything. I can't even watch scary movie trailers without getting freaked out! I didn't want them to have that anxiety.
It really depends on the kid I guess and what YOU as the parent want to be impressed upon them.
thanks for sharing.
why not the princess movies (like frozen, Cinderella, sleeping beauty, etc.)?
Because you don't want them to think that behaving like a princess is how it is in 'reality'? or...
i know parents that think 'the simpsons' are a kids show. also there was an 'adult swim' bump about a parent that was mad about the content their 7 year old was watching at midnite on a school nite.
i heard there was contraversy with 'cars 3' because they had mafia cars that beat up another car and spilled a lot of oil ?
My son watched Finding Nemo at about 3/4 and that would have made my daughter 18 months/2 (though she didn't have much of an attention span) and he was fine. They've watched the Little Mermaid, Rapunzel, Cars, Frozen, Planes, Tangled though the only one my daughter had interest in was Frozen. My son loved Cars but didn't really care for Cars 2 at the age of 4 and still doesn't care for it at the age of 7. They loved Toy Story (though is that Disney) at 2/3. They also watched a lot of Dora around the ages of 2/3.
They got into Tom and Jerry, Scooby Doo, Octonauts, Jake and the Neverland Pirates.
For us, it's been dependent on each child: attention span and susceptibility to fear being the two biggest factors. Followed by: the overall message presented, and any objectionable language/scenes.
Some of mine weren't interested in sitting through a full-length movie at 2-3 years old (one child in particular) some were easily disturbed by frightening images (one child in particular) some were more prone to repeating questionable language/actions (one child in particular.)
We still try to "pre-watch" a lot of what we're unsure of for our kids. My oldest is ok with a lot of PG-13, but not all--we like to know what we're getting into before we say "yes." For the younger ones, we often skip through the upsetting scenes in movies: years went by where I did not see the barracuda scene in Nemo, or the stampede scene in Lion King, for example.
I limited princessy things more with my older daughter. After a while I relaxed some, and I made comments while we watched together about how silly certain aspects of the story were (love the line in Frozen: "you got engaged to man you just met THAT DAY?!" ) And positive attributes of the film/characters.
A boy 5 years old: Peter Pan too scary, loved original cinderella
Since 6 likes to watch peter pan, not too scary anymore, not watch original cinderella anymore because that is a "girls movie". His sexist cousins are teaching him to learn to be a sexist young man, that is sad.
Definitely every child is different. My daughter's favorite movie at age 4 was Jaws.
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