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???!

All about the parents and it’s a bit weird that the kids won’t understand what their costumes are.

If my dd didn’t know what to be for Halloween I’d just say don’t dress up if you don’t want to.

If you want to dress up as your favourite horror movie character, crack on, but yeah, you’re going to get looks and attention for dressing your dcs like horror movie characters, because it does come across as attention seeking, “aren’t I a right larf”, bullshit.

Mum DS was Chucky when he was 2, not for Halloween but for my birthday costume party. Everyone loved it!

Last year (8yo) for Halloween he was Georgie, with missing arm and fake blood. He got stopped so many times by kids yelling “It’s Georgie!!” He even had cars honking at him and calling out the window “Hi Georgie!” He knew who Georgie was because everyone was talking about It at school when it came out.

We’re in Australia though where most people go scary with their costumes. At least where we are anyway! There was a Halloween disco at my DC primary school, I’ve never seen so much fake blood in my life

Does anyone remember what they dressed up as when they were 2??

No harm done.

I think little kids dressed as Chucky is hilarious

I know someone who did this last year, I’m not horrified but I do feel it is more for the attention than for the child to have a fun time dressing up.

Adastardlything - I think you’re missing the point that ghosts, skeletons and witches have all been sanitised to the extent there are numerous toddler story books, children’s films etc with these characters in them, hence they are familiar to children (though I completely agree young children would be unlikely to know the origins of witchcraft etc)

Chucky, Georgie etc have not been sanitised into familiar child friendly characters. Hence dressing a child up as one of them is about the parent not the child.

As another poster said, crack on if it floats your boat, I doubt many people will be horrified or ‘discusted’. I think most people probably just roll their eyes and wonder why a parent is so invested in dressing their kiddie up as something they haven’t asked for and won’t understand

What's the Mumsnet demographic?

Dressing a kid up as Chucky is no worse than dressing them up as a zombie or a vampire.

I didnt miss the point at all. Some were pointing out that Chucky is scary etc so I was merely doing the same.

I also think it's distasteful due to the association with Chucky and Jamie Bulger's killers

Would they dress their child as a prostitute and other 18+ type things? I'd have a similar response. I've not seen it on my facebook tbh.

I recall some of the details were more aligned to those contained in a children's book rather than Chucky, and the police at the time denied they believed there was a connection.

His name is also James, not Jamie.

I think thats hilarious

Unfinishedkitchen I don’t think there’s any actual evidence that James bulger’s murderer’s had watched Chucky or had an obsession with it.

If there were, then they might be an argument for saying it’s poor taste and judgement.

It’s just a bizarre thing to dress your kids up in something they don’t know or understand. A young child might very well want to dress as a witch, black cat or ghost because those things are familiar from story books and children’s tv/ movies. To pick a character for a toddler or young child from an adult or much older teen movie is just a bit weird and definitely about the parent rather than the child. I suppose my view would be, why not dress like that yourself and let your kid choose what they want to be?!

*murderers

I also think it's distasteful due to the association with Chucky and Jamie Bulger's killers

Again!

Please go and research the case before making such statements

I think it’s grim but then I think most Halloween costumes are. But as pp said you’d be disappointed if at least some of us thought it was in questionable taste.

Disappointed if some people didn’t think it was in questionable taste.

yes- It was patently obvious that the OP loved the idea that she was the ‘big talk’ among other parents. Probably all in her imagination.

@Momo27 you’ve responded to the wrong person.