Is Bambi too traumatic for a 3 year old?

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Found it for 50p in the charity shop and was about to put it on for DS1 when I remembered being a little 'un way back in the 70s at a Saturday matinee showing at the cinema and crying my eyes out when Bambi's mother copped it.

Anyone seen it recently? Is DS going to be upset?

Yes

My 8 year old bawled his eyes out.

Step away from the Bambi.

It still makes me cry

Nah he's a boy.
He'll probably make a gun out of a stick and shoot all the other animals throughout the film
Thats what my little horror darling would do!

mine have had it for a few years and it didnt upset them.

reckon a 4 year old could handle it better than me. Don't they would understand the deep pathos of the mother copping it scene.

Has he coped well with Nemo? I think if he can survive the majority of a family being wiped out followed by a kidnapping, then one deer death shouldn't shock him

my 3 year old was a bit bothered by the scene with the savage snarling dogs trying to bite bambi's mate. but that was all.

saw it when I was 5, have never seen it again, I still carry the scars

Don't even talk to me about Dumbo
Gets me everytime.

yeah, my dd was very distraught at 5 watching it

yes, reckon kids that age are more bothered by the obvious scary stuff (savage snarling dogs, as gg says).

either they don't notice the sad emotional stuff or they sublimate it and have to have therapy when they are older [evil laughing emoticon]

oops, sorry Heated!

Ah Nemo - he loves that film. BUT he completely misunderstood the entire first scene. He kept saying 'aah, that man has lost his squirrel' (Coral).

Bambi's too traumatic for a 41 year old.

And Dumbo. It's on the mothers' banned list.

dumbo

That kind of means he missed the point of the entire film, doesn't it?

Bless him, he's not dim but I do wonder how he watched it 10 times without grasping there was never a squirrel in it.

my dc have never seen bambi,or dumbo.i think i would let them watch nighmare on elm street before i let them watch those horrible sad films.

My DS1 aged 3 was distraught when Dumbo's mummy was taken away - I had to fast forward to the end to show him that it was a happy ending. But recently (now aged 7) he watched ET and was totally unmoved by the ending, asking why I was crying!

I couldn't cope with the begining of The Fox and The Hound, so have never watched Bambi, and never will.

And Dumbo - why do I always forget how sad it is?

well, my DS is 2.5 and loves it he laughs (but mostly at the bambi trying to talk/walk bit) then he gets bored and runs off - tbh I think it's lost on him the meaning behind the film.

he's watched the cartoon robin hood as well but bambi seems to be the one he asks for.

Dumbo gets me EVERY time.

In fact - if it didn't make someone cry i'd seriously question their sanity .

DS is 3, almost 4, and he thinks that if you die, you get better after a little bit and coee to life again.

I had the same worries about reading DS Babar the Elephant but it didn't seem to bother him. At all. Quite disappointing really, that the loss of a mother was accepted in such a blase manner...

On another note, I've noticed he's not so interested in old animated films as he's so used to the high tech, fast-moving ones.

Yes Threestars, I put Jungle Book on with some trepidation because he's used to the fast paced world of cBeebies et al and I wasn't sure he'd like the older stuff, but he really enjoyed it and watched it through.