The childrensbook illutrator Hans Arnold likes to say that “children needs to be frightened” and he’s right. It’s just that it’s time to go up a notch because really, for each generation the kids gets afraid for less and less.

Someone on a forum even confessed that when the person was 10 years old, it got really afraid with nightmares as a result after watching an episode of Charmed. Charmed! And I think it was because the person thought it was frightening and not because it was pure unfiltered shit.

Kids need to be scared, they do. Let them watch horror movies in kindergarten. Let them scream and get a perspective. “See kids, that was frightening!” Then again, maybe it’s always been that way. When I was eight people in my class got afraid after watching V on tv – which I even back then thought was very very silly. Has V ever been scary? No, it’s comedy action at best but mostly it’s just boring.

I mean this, let them watch horror—or hor-ror. Sure, they might be a bit afraid first but how else are they going to enjoy movies at all if they hide their faces every time something “exciting” happens. It’s for a good cause. I promise.

Comments

1. “Children needs to be frightened”? Oh, there was a point with my stepfather after all. Mo-ha-ha.
   — Ola    (@ 30. December 2004, 13:40)
2. Yeah, creating kids with no feelings, care or imagination sounds like a really good idea. Soon we’ll have a whole army of television zombies! Let’s take over the world!
   — Tommy    (@ 30. December 2004, 13:51)
3. Care? No, they would still care, only the kids wouldn’t become overprotected over-sensitive freaks like today. People who end up caring for nothing, would do so even if they watched "Full House". As for no imagination, are you on drugs? Imaginative and creative people flock to horror.
   — Nicklas    (@ 30. December 2004, 15:27)
4. Nicklas: Don´t downtalk “Full House”, damn it. What´s your prob, beardo?
   — Ola    (@ 30. December 2004, 16:42)
5. Ola: my problem is the people who defend the mere existence of Full House. Those who think nothing’s wrong with that show is even worse. I don’t wish them dead, don’t get me wrong here. I just want them to have bowel-cancer.
   — Nicklas    (@ 30. December 2004, 17:23)
6. STFU, nerds.
   — Tommy    (@ 30. December 2004, 20:05)
7. My problem as a kid was that fairly innocuous stuff would scare me. Don’t know what I would have done with actual horror. Mainly hide behind the chair, which I did for Lost in Space, and even kiddie shows which featured a “monster.”
   — jack ruttan    (@ 7. January 2005, 21:52)
8. Jack: well, all kids are different, but I can’t help to think that kids actually know what they can take and regulate themelves better than their parents think nowadays. Of course, this could just as well only aply to me and my childhood so I’m niot 100% sure.
   — Nicklas    (@ 7. January 2005, 22:41)
9. Of course. I’d hate to have been “protected,” and then run into that stuff later on. I think that’s what made some folk crazy.
   — jack ruttan    (@ 1. February 2005, 20:57)

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