to have let my friend's DD watch Charlie And The Chocolate Factory?

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I looked after my friend's DD for the day on Sunday. She is 5.

In the afternoon, I put the original Charlie And The Chocolate Factory on, you know the one with Gene Wilder.

We had a lovely time, she'd never seen it before and really enjoyed it.

My friend arrived and was actually annoyed with me for letting her watch it, because 'it would make her want sweets and chocolate'!! It is a bad influence on children apparently, and when she tries 'so hard' to get her daughter eating healthily, she doesn't want a film sabotaging it!

It's not even like I fed her DD any sweets!

I saw her this morning, and she said that her DD had been 'hyper all night' after watching it.

I had no idea I had committed such a terrible wrong

In the tunnel when he says the "no one knows where we are going bit" concentrate on the wall behind. It is really creepy !

Did she also worry that her daughter might also start looking for small orange people and could even develop a phobia of lifts in case they go crashing through ceilings?

Not to mention allowing children to be accomapanied round a factory with an adult who has not been CRB checked?

I'm afraid your friend is a loon.

Your mate is a loony choon!! [grin

The poor kid will be obsessed with sweets if the mother behaves like that.

she is mad as.

As for films she's allowed to watch, she mainly watches Disney film. Cinderella, Jungle Book, Toy Story etc. Funnily enough though, she loves Matilda, and has that on DVD, and that's also Roald Dahl isn't it. And Oliver (the original) which actually disturbed me a great deal when I was young, when Nancy gets killed. But my friend is actually very proud that her DD love Oliver, because it's a Charles Dickens story.

Must just be the sweets that make it a no-no!

I have spent years re-watching the Wizard of Oz for the munchkin that hung himself on set (which is aparently an urban myth)... and never spotted it...

should have watched the Tim Burton version, she'd be tripping out too!

Ah, the Wizard of Oz is one of my all time favourite films! I never get sick of it. I am a massive Judy Garland fan though.

look at the images behind

Thereis you are so right - my oldest DD's best friend at 5 was not allowed ANYTHING sweet, but at parties/away from her mother she would hoover anything with so much as a grain of sugar on it and to this day (they're now almost 18) has a very unhealthy obsession with sweets/chocolates/general junk. I think a happy medium generally creates a sensible eating approach that will stay with them. I certainly didn't and don't ban them and they can (all included DC4 who's 2) take or leave them. vodka redbulls on the other hand are nectar to the oldest one

I was coming on the thread to mention I'd be more bothered about the decapitation of a chicken, but notry got there first.

Oh and the giant insect on the mans face yikes !

Wow, that is a bit disturbing. Never noticed it before though, and I've seen it loads of times! Shows how observant I am...

So she's allowed to watch Matilda, with that absolutely GINORMOUS chocolate cake in it? Your friend is completely off her rocker imvho.

I think she needs to lay off the crack, decades children have recovered from it

(in the nicest way possible)

Wtf? Munchkin suicide? Do tell me more please?

I want to hear more about this mad woman BTW - sounds like she provides plenty of AIBU fodder :o

Yanbu, ds1 loves the Chocolate Factory film (though always covers his eyes at the tunnel bit, it is a bit creepy!), he's never demanded sweets or acted hyper afterwards either!

Oh, Wizard of Oz munchkin suicide

Haha! Your friend is being a nob, yanbu.

youtube video about the munchkin

Aaah, one of my friend's friends is like that, and always manages to make some snide comment about what other kids are eating and how she doesn't let hers have anything like that. I had to walk out of a playgroup once because she'd wound me up that much I'd thought I was going to slap her!! At a kids party recently at our mutual friend's house all the kids were tucking in to nuggets & chips before the birthday cake was brought out. She remarked, 'of course, the DC would rather be having carrot and cucumber sticks, but there you go.' While her DS and DD were happily munching on their nuggets and chips just like the others. Tsk. I had to bite my tongue there and no mistake!

LOL at the idea that watching Willi Winka will maake the child crave chocolate!!!

ROFL at the idea that simply watching chocolate on screen had made her child hyper!!!

Your friend is a dick head.

She needs to get a grip. Can not stand people who refuse to unclench over food. Even if the movie did make the little girl crave chocolate, so what? Life is just too damn short to be so fussy about a little treat every now and then.

I am very glad I am not being unreasonable!

I'm afraid there aren't that many funny stories weirdacronym She's never really been as ridiculous as this, but I haven't know her that long really, so maybe she's just easing me in! It's generally just stuff like not letting her DD eat 'unhealthy' food at parties, and one of our mutual friends had a birthday party for her DS, and in each bag she had put a mini pack of those american Lucky Charms cereal that you can only buy in Selfridges/online? Because of E-numbers etc. Anyway my friend requested that they weren't put into her DD's party bag, because she didn't want them getting a taste for it. That's the only possibly OTT I can think of, but even then I just thought 'Ah, fair enough!'