Dr Who ... whoops! Bad mummy traumatised ds2!

[roisin]

Dss got the Dr Who DVDs for Christmas. Ds2 (6.5) - watched the final episode last night.
He woke up screaming with hysterics after terrible nightmares 3 times during the evening

You'd better teach him to hide behind the sofa!

Shows how different children are - DS2 (4) traumatised me by doing the "Are you my mummy?" bit from the WW2 episode over and over again!

Maybe your DSs nightmares were completely unrelated to Dr Who (vainly tries to make Roisin feel betteR)

DD aged 4 can't pass a wheelie bin without gripping my hand for dear life. Papa threatened to put her out of the front door one day for her cheek & she was screaming 'The wheelie bin will get me!!!!!!!'
I remember sitting behind the couch during the Cybermen - now they were scary.

Do you know what the dreams were about Roisin?

My ds2 was the same Roisin, though he was 7 when he watched the episodes when they were first broadcast. He watched about 2 episodes and then became jittery even hearing the music when subsequent episodes were shown. Even now, aged 8, he can be upset by ds1 teasing him with Dalek impersonations.

I caught sight of Dr Who when I was about 5 or 6
even today the music sacres 3 barrels of shit out of me
I'm ok otherwise except with spiders and moths but cannot blame that on Dr Who
My ds saw Lord of the Rings the first one when he was 7 or 8
He also had nightmares and vomited - that was more dp's (step dads) fault, I hate it and only went as was sure ds would be scared, we spent much of it huddled in each others armpits...
A genetic pre dispostion methinks

SoupDragon - ds2 hasn't seen the "Empty Child" episode as ds1 was terrified by it, and has declined to watch it again, so we've kept him away from that one and the zombie one.

Beansprout - I've no idea what the nightmares were about, and this morning he couldn't remember them at all

Hope your little one is ok

Oh Lord, have been there too... bad parents, us! The empty child episode gave me the heebie-jeebies (although not as much as the Welsh ghost one with Dickens). Thankfully had persuaded dh by that time that it is far too scary for a two year-old... Ds did catch sight of the Christmas one as we were hustling him away to bed. Had to tell him very firmly they were Pretend Father Christmases.

Just goes to sow that all kids are different. my ds (5) loves all the Doctor Who episodes - nearly as much as dh!

It's me that gets scared!

But then, there are many consultant doctors who went to Glasgow Uni c.35 years ago who remember me as a wee girl watching from behind the bookcase . And I got banned from sitting next to anyone when I was at Uni, as I got too easily scared, even watching Star Trek

Now that I know what happens, I think the "Are you my Mummy?" episodes are brilliant.

Ds often enacts bits from various episodes - but doesn't seem ever to have had any nightmares.

I've just remembered - not only does DS2 soudnd freakishly like the Empty Child, he used to put on the breathing apparatus bit of his fireman's outfit and do it

I think that some chldren simply either recognise that it's just TV and therefore not real or they don't understand what makes it scarey. I was terrified by Dr Who until I was about 10 - couldn't watch it at all!! I do think that a lot of chldren (mine included!) see so much more on TV than we ever did and it's more "scarey" than, say, the Wombles of my childhood.

Cool! I gotta see this Empty Child episode!

My DS (5) is a bit obsessed with it and taught DD (18 months) to put her hand over her face and call Mummy, mummy. Poor child! However she does shout Doctor every time she sees the tardis so perhaps she really does enjoy it. My DS has only found one other child in his class who watches it. My DH and I both love it. Great Saturday night entertainment. Can't wait for the new series. (Now you see why DS is nerdy!)