To sometimes wonder what my mum was thinking?

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I was born in '91 to give you an idea of just how young I was.

She used to let me stay up and watch murder shows with her like Jonathan Creek and Midsomer Murders I'd actually go into my primary school the next day and discuss the previous nights episode with the dinner lady who also watched MM! I have an 11yr old and I wouldn't dream of letting her watch either of those shows! She'd also record stuff like South Park and Stressed Eric etc (she watched them herself so she knew full well what they were like!) so we could watch them in the mornings.

There is a particular episode of JC that gave me nightmares for years, I man had (I think) been trapped in a cellar which flooded and he drowned. I still remember the moment they opened the door and he was at the top of the stairs with his arm outstretched, and he was all yellow and waxy looking 🤢

It's only recently that I've begun to wonder what on earth she was thinking! I'm not sure if there's even any point asking her because she'd probably get all defensive and tell me I was attacking her parenting 🙄

Is the.dancing lady programme ?

Actually the thing I watched that’s stayed with me was the episode of 999 where a group of school kids when caving and one boy ducked under the water to go into the next bit but somehow found a totally undiscovered chamber with limited air and they had to rescue him. It freaks me out to this day.

I’m the same age and have memories of watching both with my grandma and she died when I was 9 so i must have been younger.

I loved them! Have fond memories - I don’t feel scarred or upset about it at all

JC is tame in comparison to some junior school kids watching Squid Games etc!

Tales of the Unexpected @elfd

My mum let me watch Shroud for a Nightingale and Maelstrom. They were scary. And Indelible Evidence - documentaries about the forensic evidence used to solve awful murders. TV used to be brilliant.

Is Bottom inappropriate? My DP is always trying to get 4yo DD to watch it with him, I’ve never seen it

Same! 🙋‍♀️ My mum took me to a museum exhibit (tbf I don't think she realised it was going be as spooky as it was, but she should have been on the ball more when she DID realise but hey ho). It was bloody terrifying! It's STILL probably the scariest exhibit I have ever been to and I was 9 years old. Full of photos the general public had taken with bloody ghosts cropping up next to people/weird shadows/lights/unexplained things, you get the drift...

Gave me nightmares and possibly triggered my insomnia which lies dormant for me 90% of the time.

The exhibit was definitely NOT suitable for children.

There is a lot of smashing each other with frying pans and fights for laughs. On this I have to say your DP sounds a bit foolish, it’s exactly what a 4 year old would copy

well they swear a lot, talk about shagging a lot, drink a lot and have really over the top violent fights like setting each other on fire.

Not for a 4 year old. No. Your husband is a bell end.

Bloody hell, I used to watch Chucky, Nightmare on Elm Street, Poltergeist etc at that age. Jonathan Creek is nothing 😂

You seem to have turned out ok. No mum is perfect, op.

I was born 1982 and allowed to watch Freddy Krueger , Childs play , poltergeist etc and I can confirm Im completely normal and boring and my mum is a lovely lady .
To be fair though , back then we were watching these videos at slumber parties with friends , allowed by friends mums. I think back then our mums didn’t really realise what these films were about , there was no google , my mum probably thought it was a little ghost story or toy story 🫣

Jonathan Creek and Midsummer Murders are both very benign as murder shows go. I used to watch a lot of crime dramas with my parents and those two would definitely have been considered light viewing. I'm sure I watched them before aged 11.

I didn't say I was 11, my daughter is and I wouldn't allow her to watch it. I was much much younger. I started watching these things from around age 5-6!

I watched Jonathan creek at that age. and midsummer murders.
My kids are 9 and 11. They've seen every episode of Creek and they love death in paradise.

I mean... they're pretty tame. Cant believe you're thinking about this and wouldnt let your kid watch shows like it at the age. Loosen to apron strings a bit.

Oh god🤦‍♀️ He told me it was just like only fools and horses, the git.

The thing that gave me nightmares was actually a sitcom episode - no idea which, but one of the seemingly endless run of 1980s sitcoms about middle-class people in middle-class situations - a couple knocked down their chimney breast and found a skeleton behind it. For some reason that terrified me to the extent I woke up screaming about it.

(If anyone recognises that and knows what it was, I would love to find out)

Those two are fairly tame, things like Cracker, a touch of frost where worse, I would say.

My Mum and I would sit and watch star trek together

The only thing that scared me as a child was an episode of Taggart when they were camping and someone slashed the tent and got them.
It made me really scared on family camping holidays 🫣.

Definitely wasn’t scared by chucky / Freddy etc

I used to pretend I couldn't sleep on a Thursday and Sunday to watch prisoner cell block H! 🙈🤣

Ha ha prisoner cell block H was brutal 🤣

Still traumatised by an iron thing being pulled on a newbies hand 😳

Ds watched Scott & Bailey age 8 & was obsessed with watching it. He still has every episode stored on his Xbox age 19. After a trip to Manchester Airport he had me driving round to the location of the police station so he could take pictures.

Put me off ever going to prison anyway 🤷‍♀️

You’ve still nothing to complain about and sound like you are trying to find some kind of grievance against your mum. Has she criticised your parenting or something?