The Fox and the Hound

[Alaskan Catfish Hike]

Listening to a Disney podcast I was reminded of this thing. I watched The Fox and the Hound a couple years back when babysitting the neighbor kids. I can't remember crap about it. What I can remember was the absolutely bizarre effect it had on one of the kids. Wish I had filmed it. She was going around hitting people, yelling lines from it, and holding real people responsible for events from the movie. I got kicked in the shin for not stepping in the egg tongs turned bear trap. Man did I earned that thirty five dollars.
Did anyone else experience anything like that?

[hedy]

Wait what thats too much.

[Alaskan Catfish Hike]

Originally posted by Jacket:

sounds like some creepy ass deepweb movie
anyway movies are designed to have a brainwashing effect on kids and they were probably really vulnerable to it

It is a legit Disney movie that was the last Don Bluth film with them for a while.

[C4Warr10r]

Everyone has at some point, they often just don't remember. Very small children do not have a sense of object permanence or recognition that other things are seperate form themselves as per Theory of Mind.

To a mind undeveloped enough (and all humans are born with undeveloped minds, we are all born prematurely by the rest of nature's standards) events happening around oneself are not distinct from the self. A little later on humans learn those distinctions, but they think everyone thinks and feels the same way they do. So do most higher animals, which is how animal "whisperers" make a living. They can think close enough to what a horse or dog or dolphin or whatever does.

To that kid, what was going on in the movie was real, and the rest of you were a constant source of frustration for doing things known to be wrong. IMO, the only good way to deal with kids at that age is to distract them with something else, preferably pleasing human contact and not another movie. It's best done in the same manner you would speak to any adult calmly, as it helps them understand that you are different. They'll forget what they were on about within minutes most of the time, but if the lack of recognition persists beyond about the age of two*, they may have a learning disorder and should be evalutaed.


*The terrible twos are known by the name for a reason. Children are old enough to know that others exists, the know things can be imaginary, temporary, or permanent, but they do not understand the concept that they are not the only important thing.

[Alaskan Catfish Hike]

Oh, it was Brokeback Mountain with a fox and two dogs.
She was like six.
I brought this up in child development and no one else saw anything like it.

[_INP_Боба]

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