To be concerned by the parenting on display in Frozen

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I mean, take Kristoff. He's just following all these men around trying to lift ice blocks like they do, loading them onto his little sled, trying to keep up, and no one acknowledges him at all. Is one of those men his dad? Then he gets left behind and a troll just decides she'll keep him, and that's that! Where are his parents and don't they miss him at all?

Then you have the king and queen and their great advice that Elsa hides all her powers and wears gloves so she never touches anyone...Does anyone else want to report them to Arendelle Social Services?

I think Kristoff was an orphan.

The trading post owner and his sauna family make up for it.

Didn't trolls steal children in Nordic folklore? That's what I told my horrified children when they asked why Kristoff was out grafting at such a young age.

begins saving for their inevitable future counselling

That's true, they are certainly very close! In a slightly peculiar way.

But if an orphan and his baby reindeer were following you around at work, wouldn't you keep a friendly eye on them?

As a sidebar, if you were Elsa, wouldn't you just have shipped Anna off to stay with relatives or to boarding school or something by the 3rd time she knocked on your door and sang about building a snowman?

I'd be more concerned about the parenting on display in Cinderella... or Hansel and Gretel...or Morrisons.

What about Alice and wonderland?! Alice just disappears of by her self takes halucigenic drugs, takes sweets and food from strangers! She falls down a bloody great whole on the ground! SS would be all over that!

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I don't know, Derek - sometimes the temptation to send DD off with a monkey and a map is pretty high!

There is a brilliant parody on youtube here which addresses this.

Yes, but it's all a dream for Alice. More worrying is the theory that Lewis Carroll was a paedo preying on the real Alice!

Love that video, ISay! Have just watched the Harry Potter one and the Titanic one too.

Brilliant!

Charlie and Lola are constantly left alone, poor Charlie never seems to get to be a child as is always babysitting. Dora and Diego never seem to have an adult either.

What about Max and Ruby? Where are the parents there? ??!

What about Ben 10, he goes around the country with an old man in a camper van?

And Iggle Piggle, I mean where do you start with him?????

It's a totally common trope in children's films/literature. How will the characters have adventures if their parents are constantly trailing them?! Absent or awful parents are ubiquitous in children's stories. There are loads of examples - Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, George's Marvellous Medicine; Harry Potter; Series of Unfortunate Events; fairy tales, etc etc. Or there are the stories where their parents are perfectly fine but they are still separated (Swallows and Amazons, Peter Pan).

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Op I'm surprised you haven't been told to let it go yet.

Traditionally trolls stole children.

Never mind Iggle Piggle, what about those teeny tiny Pontipines, they eat like kings and feed their children runny grobbles.

PMSL eatshitderek.

That video was hilarious!

Let it goooooo!
Sorry. Couldn't resist

anna has definitely been affected by lack of parents/sisterly love.

she gets engaged to some random stranger in one breath amd in the other she asks another stranger to take her up the north mountain.

slut

Yeah - Dora's so bloody annoying I can't really blame her parents.....

DS does tell me I'm like the mum from Gumball though! I tell him I make her look like Mother Theresa .