Terrified by certain tv programmes.

[MrsWillis]

My DS is 2.4 and is very easily scared by things on the television. It's nearly always children's programmes but occasionally adverts too.
Most of the time he just shouts no and brings us the remote to turn over but sometimes he will burst into tears and shake and scream until we turn over.
I spoke to a nursery nurse about it and she said it was strange behaviour and she had never heard of it before.

Does anyone else have any experience of this?

Sounds fairly normal to me. Ds1 used to be scared of a part of the closing credits of Come Outside. I have no idea what part it was.

He was also scared of the numberjacks, and insisted I switch channel, until he was about 6!

"That episode of ITNG where the pinkyponk crashes into a tree terrifies DD..."

My 12 and 14 yr old find ITNG disturbing!