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Birds, I have visions of one of your dc appearing and going 'mum look at this funny balloon I found in your cupboard'

shouldnt be here must move

Bitchy, you laugh but ds1 did do that once - "ooh, balloons" after rooting around a bedroom drawer

I am obviously the only one who told the DCs that condoms are so DH and I don't have any more babies. They never touch anything in our bedroom any more.

Tonight I will be mostly altering school uniforms and MNing in front of the fire. I have brought no work home today.

Stop the press everyone: I just did some cleaning. It had to happen one day, and it seemed to be the perfect antidote to my odd mood today. Also I found the source of the fruit flies in the kitchen: one of DS's hidden pear cores.

Also, my children did not try to kill each other not once in the past hour, it's amazing what I can get done when I don't need to spend all my time standing between them. Right, feed them, wash them, stick them in bed, write. That is my plan for the evening.

The DC have never asked about condoms, but when they ask I will give them your answer, Never. It's perfect.

LOL Never. Mine know what they are, but I hadn't thought of the fear angle. However, ds2 has been complaining that "we haven't had any babies since ds3 was born" (5 months ago), so I would not put it past him to try sabotage

Ds1 and I are planning to watch philosophers stone tomorrow - he is really quite sensitive about peril, violence, anger, etc. Which bits do I need to prepare him for / fast forward past? I thought of Voldemort on Quirrell's head, wizard's chess, what else might be problematic do you think?

I'd say Devil's Snare and Fluffy the three-headed dog could both be fairly worrisome, Birds. Has he read the book so will know what to expect, or not?

oh yes thanks evil
he has read the book, but it's so different when it's a film, isn't it?
I am not sure if we'll see all of the scary parts, or skip past all of them

for comparison, the lion king was too scary for him, but we'll see
at least he knows it ends well!

I'm not sure you can anticipate what will frighten him, Birds. DS loved Monster House (animated house comes to life on Hallowe'en and eats people, scary stuff) but insisted I fast forward the bit in Polar Express where the broken toys were. As long as you're there to reassure him and remind him that they made 7 more HP films not to mention all the gay wizard pornso it must turn out ok, he'll probably be ok?

Simba watching his father die is disturbing to audiences of all ages and Scar and the hyenas are well scary, so your DS is not unreasonable there!

Only you can decide, birds.

took the kids to see Brave. DD (3) loved it and keeps asking if we can go again. When I asked her if she was scared, she told me that it was only a film, and it wasn't real. DS, on the other hand (7) cried his eyes out, was terrified.

Tilly it is exactly the sort of stuff ds would do and usually in front of the only person that you really really really didn't want to witness that. I like the truth factore, just have had need to explain this specific and would like to leave it until essential as ds is only young yet.

DD was afraid of the aristocats yesterday (not crats, autocorrect, that would be v inappropriate) she loves things like kung fu panda so I was :s

In other news I have knitted a scarf! I'm massively not procrastination about packing the house, oh no...

Most scared I have ever seen DD was when she watched Monsters Inc. It wasn't the monsters, it was the little girl lost that did it for her. We'd borrowed it when she was ill, because it was her best friend's favourite film.

Of course now she'll watch anything, it seems, without batting an eyelid. (Although there's still stuff I won't let her watch).

A gloriously creepy Kirk/McCoy AU here.

Ds1 has watched HP1 & 2, he thinks the ending with Voldemort is the scariest bit but he was more upset by Harry's parents dying. I was annoyed when his teacher put on HP3 in the last week of school, he had nightmares about the Dementors for about a week afterwards.

Did you tell someone at the school about it, Tilly? They really shouldn't be showing PG films without your knowledge/permission. The teacher probably doesn't have kids and didn't realise. not talking from personal experience there at all, oh no They won't know unless someone tells them...

I am grateful to e parent who quietly pointed it out to me

the parent.

Gor blimey, the Dementors give me nightmares! I'd be livid if someone showed ds1 that without permission. Sorry for ds, Tilly.

I'd just decided that he needed to wait until he was a little older to see it as well! I did mention it to the teacher and she was very apologetic. She's a nqt (and excellent in all other respects) so don't think she'd realised that just because some of his classmates had seen it that all of them could. But she said she'd check with parents in future.

We had some babysitting issues with ds2 but me and ds1 got as far as the quidditch match. Got through Dursleys being horrible, Lily dying (probably worst bit), Hagrid crashing in the door, Fluffy, the troll. All was fine. I think knowing the story helped. He loved it and he now has an awesome Snape face he can do, LOL.

My two will watch almost anything - seen all but the last two HP films, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Goonies, Indiana Jones, Hulk, Avengers, Thor, Green Lantern, Dr Who, Lord of the Rings etc etc
But it was Happy Feet, yes, HAPPY FEET that we had to turn off after a few minutes.
And why would tap dancing penguins set my children off in fits of uncontrollable sobbing? Because he Mummy went away...

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Please could someone tell me why I can't seem to be able to get the Left My Heart Stories to download from Emma Grants site
www.queerasjedi.net/emma/ebooks/
could anyone tell me an easy way of doing it. I usually have no problems with putting stuff on be it ebooks or pdf's but my computer does not seem to like the links on her site