Shadow Man
My baby boy - now 3 1/2 years old - was scared. Scared of the dark. Why? Because he watched a Batman cartoon where Superman is killed by Joker (he revives later in the episode when Batman rescues him) and had been scared of the dark for weeks after that fateful viewing. He slept with his lamp on. He feared the shadows on the ceiling were Joker coming to get him. I banned the dvd from kids' viewing choices, but I'm stuck with the after-effects. Comic books and superheros are my husband's department. They were from his collection of dvd's. I don't like to sit and watch cartoons, so my little ones viewed this without my supervision. Yep, I take the blame, but I have also had to deal with his fear of the dark and the guy on the ceiling. Oh yes - I've had my comeuppance. My little boy didn't want to go to sleep up until 10:30, when we'd rather to be watching a "grown up" (aka non-cartoon) show. A little visitor would come at 2...