To have dressed my children as Chucky and the bride for Halloween?

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I've clearly been the big talk between parents... had a couple of parents go "oh god you didn't?" And I had to ask what it was about. There was a Halloween disco type think for the kids at school. I have a 2 yo (obvs not at school but siblings welcome) and a 5 year old. The 2 year old didn't ask what he wanted to be and surprisingly dd didn't really know, she kept umming and ahhring. Took her to supermarket to look at costumes and she didn't like any so I kind of came up with the idea.

WIBU???!

Donald it just depends on the take on it. I personally don't like it because the character is so particularly grim, and also because as PP have said, any young child should have no clue about Chucky, so really it's making a joke out of your child for kudos from other parents.

It’s not exactly a child friendly costume I guess. DGD was a little bat which I thinks good as she knows what bats are and that they come out in the dark and you go trick or treating in the dark. She’s just 3. Don’t think I’d like her being dressed up as Chucky really.

A friend of mine has dressed her daughter up as Chucky, Jigsaw and Harley Quinn. She's lovely but these costumes are for her fun and not her daughter's. Most of the kids at the nursery/infants disco were variations on witches, vampires, ghosts skeletons and a couple of werewolves. Pretty much just stuff that they might have seen in Hotel Transylvania

It’s unaccepatble because a two year old boy was brutally murdered after children watched a Chucky film.

You should probably read a bit more on the case you are referring to......

I still have pictures of me in costume from when I was 3YO.

I’d have seriously questioned my parents for dressing me in Chucky or the equivalent. It’s not appropriate.

Sounds like cool Halloween costumes to me!

It’s unaccepatble because a two year old boy was brutally murdered after children watched a Chucky film

Oh please

Jamie Bulger's murder IS linked to Chucky though, the murderers were obsessed with it

If I saw parents with a 2yo child dressed as Chucky, I'd have my judgey pants hoiked so high they'd be strangling me. I was when my then 9yo dressed himself as a horribly convincing zombie.

Jamie Bulger's murder IS linked to Chucky though, the murderers were obsessed with it

According to the press.

The actual court case dismissed it. Go do a bit of research.

Good lord, there is no evidence to suggest that either Venables or Thompson even saw the film. It is certainly true that Venables' father rented it from the video shop but as a non-resident parent, even Merseyside Police thought it highly unlikely that his son watched it.

My sister dressed my niece as Georgie from IT she's 3 soon.

Sorry it’s a no

Jamie Bulger's murder IS linked to Chucky though, the murderers were obsessed with it

Oh right you know this how?

My nephew was Chucky and he won the prize for best dressed boy in the competition! He's 6 and autistic! Of course he's never seen the film, but my teenage son had a Chucky doll in his bedroom...my nephew saw it when he was about 3 and screamed his head off to keep it! He took it home and slept with it every night for 3 years...called it his baby 😂 So we didn't dress him as Chucky for us, we did it for him! He has no idea what Chucky represents! Some people need to chill out!!!

The part that bugs me about this is the amount of people who say “ I wanted to be different and not bog standard witch etc “
It’s not different there’s bloody mini Chucky everywhere the last few years

Hahaha I think this is brilliant!
My mum says I watched chucky, must have been about 4 or 5

@jeanpagett the original Harley Quinn costume wouldn't be shorts and fishnets

Sure, but I'd never seen anyone wear a Harley Quinn costume until the film came out. Kids dressing up as X-men these days don't wear yellow leather.

Not sure a skin tight body stocking is any more suitable for kids anyway tbh (not least trying to get them to the loo  )

I'd say wildly inappropriate and feel quite judgy. I'd probably feel they werent my sort of people amd give a wide berth tbh.

I think it’s a weird thing to do, not because I’m being judgemental about it’s appropriateness in the context of the film being for an adult audience.

It’s simply the fact that surely fancy dress should be About the child wanting to dress up, and actually having some role in the whole shebang. The OP seems to think she’s incredibly cool for buying an outfit for her child which the kid doesn’t understand.

She’s clearly not along because among FB friends’ posts I saw several young kids/ toddlers dressed as Chucky Georgie from It and similar (so it’s not even being individual!!) It just comes across as parents being over invested when they’re buying outfits for their kids that the kid can’t have asked for and won’t understand. It’s obviously an opportunity for the parents to post ‘look aren’t we edgy cool parents’ photos on FB rather than being about the kids.

*Alone not along

I’m not a fan either of dressing kids up in costumes they won’t understand, or be able to show off to their friends. I just think it’s a bit naff and me-me-me.

My 4 year old goes as a cat every year because she likes cats. Meh. She won’t win any prizes for originality, but she likes it.

DS2 was a Slenderman. His choice. He's 7. He knows who they are because of Roblox.

It just seem tacky and reeks of parent trying to be edgy

Totally agree with the last bit. I'm not sure what these parents are trying to prove.

Loving this thread.

Dressing a kid up in jeans and a ginger wig to pretend to be a possessed doll brings out the Discusted from Tonbridge Wells lot but being a ghost (haunt people), a skeleton (an alive replica of a humans innards) and a witch (who were burnt alive at the stake and use snakes eyes and puppy's bollocks for their spells) are not scary at all and perfectly acceptable.