12 yo Daughter Watched American Horror Story (1 Viewer)

[TheIronSheik]

I had to look up what a milar balloon was. I had no idea that had a specific name. Id just call it a ballloon

OH COME ON

I've never heard of that term either. Until this thread.

Seriously? It's pronounced "MY-lar" if that helps any.

Not a term I've ever heard used. I'm probably younger than most here.

I'm not saying you haven't heard of it. But it's a term that is still used today.

 

[Koya]

This reminds me of one of my parents worst parenting efforts -EVER.

Now, as backdrop, my mother NEVER took us to movies (my dad did all the time, but lived with mom). But when they did, wow, talk about doozies. For example, we were the four people who saw Ishtar. In theatres. Like wth?

Anyways... when I was 8, and my sister 7, we went to a fair / festivale. We won some plus toys, my sister loved her campy milar balloon, a nice family excursion. Until, for some godforsaken reason, a woman who would not feed us "any preservatives or unnatural ingredients" and didnt let me have play guns, decides it's a good idea to go to.... Poltergeist.

LIKE WHAT THE HELL, MOM? I'm 8, my sis is freakin' 7. So, we watch it, I'm scared / confused / enthralled, but there we sat, through the whole thing. Like not once did my mother think, maybe this is not right, especially for my daughter who had to be consoled as she ran out screaming from ET.

Story gets so much better. Because you know a 7 year old may have a tough time sleeping after, well, ####### Poltergeist. At 3 in the morning, there are 100% bloodcurdling screams. I mean, something just awful was happening in my sisters room down the hall.

Because, if you are going to take your young kids to Poltergeist, it might not be a good idea to give your daughter a helium filled milar ballon... that ever so slowly began to drift down... and up, and down... and up with the currents of A/C as the spooky light and shadows of the trees reflect off it's shiny exterior like a damn ghost.

Well done mom. And you wondered why she became weird.

I had an experience with a milar balloon.

I got home from working the club around 3 am. I'm upstairs watching TV and my cat starts to get that look like she's seen a rat or something and gets crazy focused. Only she's staring down the stairwell about 6 feet off the ground. I pause the TV and I hear this slow, scraping noise. I start to freak out. I go to get up off the sofa to see what the noise is, when a huge shadow starts to appear on the stairs. The scraping gets louder and the cat gets in to her pounce mode. My heart was pounding.

That's when the milar balloon came into view. The A/C had begun moving it along the ceiling, scraping while it moved. It then moved over the light and cast the shadow. If that thing would have popped from the heat of the ceiling lamp, I'm pretty sure my heart would have popped too. Crazy scary.

Now imagine you were..... 7. And a chick.

 

[Koya]

I had to look up what a milar balloon was. I had no idea that had a specific name. Id just call it a ballloon

The reason it's necessary to state mYlar is because they are the ones that are silver / reflective. Like a mirrored balloon. Unlike a typical colored, dull/matt or even "shiny" look, this has some rainbow unicorn painting on one said, and fully reflective mirror type silver on the other.

ETA... Apparently its Mylar. But back in the day, we spelled it milar. ldundsure:

 

[shadyridr]

Yeah I guess id just call it a foil balloon

 

[Fennis]

Yeah I guess id just call it a foil balloon

 

[Koya]

Yeah I guess id just call it a foil balloon

WTF is a "foil" balloon?

 

[shadyridr]

Yeah I guess id just call it a foil balloon

WTF is a "foil" balloon?

the metallic ones that look like aluminum foil

 

[Insein]

I saw the Exorcist when I was 10 or 11

Same, do people think watching that stuff is going to permanently scar their kids, or do they simply want to avoid having to deal with any nightmares the kid might have? I can understand the latter, but I feel the former is overstated.

American horror story is less about horror and more about kinky bondage sex.

 

[Koya]

Yeah I guess id just call it a foil balloon

WTF is a "foil" balloon?

the metallic ones that look like aluminum foil

OHHH. You mean a MYLAR balloon!?!

 

[Insein]

This reminds me of one of my parents worst parenting efforts -EVER.

Now, as backdrop, my mother NEVER took us to movies (my dad did all the time, but lived with mom). But when they did, wow, talk about doozies. For example, we were the four people who saw Ishtar. In theatres. Like wth?

Anyways... when I was 8, and my sister 7, we went to a fair / festivale. We won some plus toys, my sister loved her campy milar balloon, a nice family excursion. Until, for some godforsaken reason, a woman who would not feed us "any preservatives or unnatural ingredients" and didnt let me have play guns, decides it's a good idea to go to.... Poltergeist.

LIKE WHAT THE HELL, MOM? I'm 8, my sis is freakin' 7. So, we watch it, I'm scared / confused / enthralled, but there we sat, through the whole thing. Like not once did my mother think, maybe this is not right, especially for my daughter who had to be consoled as she ran out screaming from ET.

Story gets so much better. Because you know a 7 year old may have a tough time sleeping after, well, ####### Poltergeist. At 3 in the morning, there are 100% bloodcurdling screams. I mean, something just awful was happening in my sisters room down the hall.

Because, if you are going to take your young kids to Poltergeist, it might not be a good idea to give your daughter a helium filled milar ballon... that ever so slowly began to drift down... and up, and down... and up with the currents of A/C as the spooky light and shadows of the trees reflect off it's shiny exterior like a damn ghost.

Well done mom. And you wondered why she became weird.

my father took me and my brother (9 and 7 at the time) to see Aliens

Some kid brought in Aliens at the end of the school year during those movie days. It was 4th grade. I don't think the nun knew what it was.

 

[psychobillies]

My wife can't sleep after watching that show, and she's 16, I would say 4 more years at minimum.

Wait, what?

I'm not sure how much McGarnicle is appreciated in the FFA, but the son of a ##### never misses an opportunity, and rarely disappoints.

 

[Gawain]

Pop let me watch original Night of the Living Dead at 6, then as he was saying good night to me as I got into bed, he told me that NASA just discovered a new asteroid heading towards earth. Didn't sleep for weeks. Didn't help that he lived on a 90 acre farm with no other houses in sight, much like the movie.

 

[pollardsvision]

My wife is friends with a woman who took her 16 YO son to see the movie Don John.

That had to be uncomfortable, for sure, but I don't see the big deal.

Jerking off to porn isn't some crazy new concept for a 16 YO.

 

[timschochet]

My daughters are 14 and 12. At this point I let them watch whatever they want. Game of Thrones, Queer As Folk= they've plenty of explicit sex. Whatever. They're very smart girls. I think they'll be OK.

 

[Josie Maran]

My wife can't sleep after watching that show, and she's 16, I would say 4 more years at minimum.

Wait, what?

I'm not sure how much McGarnicle is appreciated in the FFA, but the son of a ##### never misses an opportunity, and rarely disappoints.

I heart him.

 

[shadyridr]

My wife is friends with a woman who took her 16 YO son to see the movie Don John.

That had to be uncomfortable, for sure, but I don't see the big deal.

Jerking off to porn isn't some crazy new concept for a 16 YO.

yeah more uncomfortable than inappropriate

 

[TheIronSheik]

Yeah I guess id just call it a foil balloon

"Yeah, uh, let me get one of 'dos heart shaped metal balloons, please."

 

[TheIronSheik]

This reminds me of one of my parents worst parenting efforts -EVER.

Now, as backdrop, my mother NEVER took us to movies (my dad did all the time, but lived with mom). But when they did, wow, talk about doozies. For example, we were the four people who saw Ishtar. In theatres. Like wth?

Anyways... when I was 8, and my sister 7, we went to a fair / festivale. We won some plus toys, my sister loved her campy milar balloon, a nice family excursion. Until, for some godforsaken reason, a woman who would not feed us "any preservatives or unnatural ingredients" and didnt let me have play guns, decides it's a good idea to go to.... Poltergeist.

LIKE WHAT THE HELL, MOM? I'm 8, my sis is freakin' 7. So, we watch it, I'm scared / confused / enthralled, but there we sat, through the whole thing. Like not once did my mother think, maybe this is not right, especially for my daughter who had to be consoled as she ran out screaming from ET.

Story gets so much better. Because you know a 7 year old may have a tough time sleeping after, well, ####### Poltergeist. At 3 in the morning, there are 100% bloodcurdling screams. I mean, something just awful was happening in my sisters room down the hall.

Because, if you are going to take your young kids to Poltergeist, it might not be a good idea to give your daughter a helium filled milar ballon... that ever so slowly began to drift down... and up, and down... and up with the currents of A/C as the spooky light and shadows of the trees reflect off it's shiny exterior like a damn ghost.

Well done mom. And you wondered why she became weird.

I had an experience with a milar balloon.

I got home from working the club around 3 am. I'm upstairs watching TV and my cat starts to get that look like she's seen a rat or something and gets crazy focused. Only she's staring down the stairwell about 6 feet off the ground. I pause the TV and I hear this slow, scraping noise. I start to freak out. I go to get up off the sofa to see what the noise is, when a huge shadow starts to appear on the stairs. The scraping gets louder and the cat gets in to her pounce mode. My heart was pounding.

That's when the milar balloon came into view. The A/C had begun moving it along the ceiling, scraping while it moved. It then moved over the light and cast the shadow. If that thing would have popped from the heat of the ceiling lamp, I'm pretty sure my heart would have popped too. Crazy scary.

Now imagine you were..... 7. And a chick.

Oh, yeah. I can imagine. At 30, I almost crapped my pants. Not sure I'd still be alive at 7.

 

[tdoss]

American Horror at 12?

Yea...time to drop her off I'm at foster care and just make another...This one is broken.

 

[Dinsy Ejotuz]

creepy thing that only FBGers do

 

[Apple Jack]

My wife is friends with a woman who took her 16 YO son to see the movie Don John.

That had to be uncomfortable, for sure, but I don't see the big deal.

Jerking off to porn isn't some crazy new concept for a 16 YO.

yeah more uncomfortable than inappropriate

I know a guy who took his mom and sister to Wolf of Wall Street on Christmas.

 

[shadyridr]

Yeah I guess id just call it a foil balloon

"Yeah, uh, let me get one of 'dos heart shaped metal balloons, please."

No, Id just say the character that was one it or the shape it was in. When you get a helium balloon do you ask for a latex balloon?

 

[tonydead]

Me - 6 yo - Jaws

LOL at grown men afraid of balloons.

 

[TheIronSheik]

Yeah I guess id just call it a foil balloon

"Yeah, uh, let me get one of 'dos heart shaped metal balloons, please."

No, Id just say the character that was one it or the shape it was in. When you get a helium balloon do you ask for a latex balloon?

I wasn't actually making fun of you. When you said foil, I just got a picture of a guy going in and not knowing the term Mylar. It just kind of made me laugh.

 

[Dinsy Ejotuz]

The balloon chit chat reminded me of this.

 

[Apple Jack]

I thought Mylar was the pot that can go in the oven.

 

[cstu]

Pop let me watch original Night of the Living Dead at 6, then as he was saying good night to me as I got into bed, he told me that NASA just discovered a new asteroid heading towards earth. Didn't sleep for weeks. Didn't help that he lived on a 90 acre farm with no other houses in sight, much like the movie.

 

[shadyridr]

Yeah I guess id just call it a foil balloon

"Yeah, uh, let me get one of 'dos heart shaped metal balloons, please."

No, Id just say the character that was one it or the shape it was in. When you get a helium balloon do you ask for a latex balloon?

I wasn't actually making fun of you. When you said foil, I just got a picture of a guy going in and not knowing the term Mylar. It just kind of made me laugh.

Well then you were making fun of me because I didnt know the term Mylar

 

[shadyridr]

Me - 6 yo - Jaws

LOL at grown men afraid of balloons.

My wife is scared of balloons. She constantly dreading the unexpected POP. My 5 yr old son makes fun of her.

 

[TheIronSheik]

Yeah I guess id just call it a foil balloon

"Yeah, uh, let me get one of 'dos heart shaped metal balloons, please."

No, Id just say the character that was one it or the shape it was in. When you get a helium balloon do you ask for a latex balloon?

I wasn't actually making fun of you. When you said foil, I just got a picture of a guy going in and not knowing the term Mylar. It just kind of made me laugh.

Well then you were making fun of me because I didnt know the term Mylar

My bad, GB.

 

[Donsmith753]

My daughters are 14 and 12. At this point I let them watch whatever they want. Game of Thrones, Queer As Folk= they've plenty of explicit sex. Whatever. They're very smart girls. I think they'll be OK.

As long as they've got old bodies I don't think it's an issue.