I was so pleased that DD was in floods of tears last night - isn't that odd?

[Katymac]

She was crying about Dumbo having to leave his mum

I was so relieved - I find great comfort in crying about a sad book/film/story and often reread a sad story when real life is getting me down - to make myself feel better

I brought up on here how odd I thought it was that dd (9ys) never cried at anything she saw or read several months ago - and now she has

I am pleased Daft aren't I?

dd has just started to do this, she's almost 6. Both times recently at Dr Who - once when John Smith became the Dr again (so he wasn't going to live happily ever after , get married and have kids) and when Rose was sucked away from the Dr(reshown on UK Gold today). She's been ok thus far with cartoons. I guess it is a sign of maturing emotionally.

How nice for you that she takes DW so seriously - I'm hoping DD will in the future

Every so often she'll do a check that it isn't real. We have a dvd of Charlotte's Web waiting to be viewed , she may well cry

My litmus test is crying at Bambi - and my older kids just ate more popcorn as Bambi was wandering through the blizzard crying for his dead mother - I was convinced I had raised two sociopaths .

I was worried DD wasn't normal

I mean - not crying at sad stuff - how odd

I gave my dd a cd of mood music to listen to at bedtime once. Think she was about 6 at the time. She couldn't get to sleep, so I thought a bit of relaxing music would help. She was down stairs within 10 minutes, sobbing! The music was too sad! BAD MOTHER!!

God I can remember crying my eyes out reading the original version of Hans Christian Andersons "The Little Sea Maid" (when she loses her beautiful voice in order to grow human legs instead of her fishy tail, and then feels as if she is walking on razorblades with every step, and at the end where she dies so that the prince can marry his human bride) when I was about 6 or 7.

Mum banned the book in the end, she was sick of me getting myself in a state over it.

Perfectly normal reactions ladies - it was just my DD that was a bit odd