Nearly 5 year overheard a video not age appropriate

[Bringingupboys98]

Hello.
My extremely intelligent 4 year old put on his old bluetooth earphones tonight. I had NO idea they had connected to my phone. They were connected to my partners and then he turned his bluetooth off so I presumed that was that. He fell asleep with them on.

Well anyway I was doom scrolling and came across the trending video of Cat Hart Maternity telling her story about her experience with post partum psychosis (which by the way what a strong and amazing woman!)

I was just reading with captions as I always do. After that finished I watched another video my friend sent me which I needed sound on for when I realised it wasn't playing and my phone was connected to his headphones. I ran upstairs hoping he was asleep and he was there with his eyes wide open and seemed off and a bit sad.

He must have heard the videos. I feel awful, sad, that his innocent mind has been exposed to this. What should I do?? I'm worried he thinks it was me or something 😥

What’s the context of the video?

I can't imagine he understood much of it.

How many 5 year olds would keep listening to some boring thing that their mum was playing through the headphones? I'm sure he took them off pretty quickly.

He’s four. Either he understood it and he’s digesting and contemplating it and deciding which aspects he wants to discuss over breakfast or he didn’t and he was just lying in his own bed safe, content and happy in his home with his mammy close by and slightly pushing the boundaries by wearing headphones when he should be going to sleep and thinking ‘doo- doo-dee-doo I’m wearing headphones’.

Ask him what he heard. Ask if it made him feel sad or confused. Explain it was just a story.

I don’t think you’ve damaged him for life, surely? It wasn’t porn or some violent torture thing. I’d just say sorry you shouldn’t have heard that, do you want to talk about it? And leave it at that.

I agree he’s not taken this in. But also why is a 4yo sleeping with headphones on/in?

Why would a child of that age need headphones.

Why does a four year old go to bed with headphones on? Can’t someone read him a bedtime story?

Fucked it. He's ruined. Start saving for therapy or just change the kid, probably get a straight swap at that age

This.

I don't understand this thing now where parents are afraid to talk to their child about an experience which is upsetting because it might upset them?

They were headphones. He found them after not using them for years and found it funny because he'd forgotten about them. this was after we'd read him two stories.

He wanted to leave them on, there was nothing playing when I left him. I always go in before I go to bed myself to turn his lamp off etc and I would have taken them off then. It's the first time he's worn them going to bed.

So you ran upstairs and saw him with the headphones on looking sad and then… what did you DO?!

Did you not ask him what he heard? Did you talk about it? It feels like the end of the story is missing.

Irreparably damaged