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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mythago" data-source="post: 2081561" data-attributes="member: 3019">At his age? Yes.First, because kids that little do not differentiate between fantasy and reality well. At six or seven, he will understand that the people in the film are actors and don't really die, that if you hit a real person with a sword you will hurt them, and so on. Not-quite-three is, as you saw with his Wizard of Oz nightmares, not old enough to get that.Second, not all violent fantasy is alike. I think we can all tell the difference between reading Grimm's Fairy Tales to a child and taking him to see Kill Bill. (At least, I hope so.)Blessed Kitten, with all due respect, I don't know if I would take the word of somebody who "hates children with a passion" as a good guide for how well-adjusted a child is, much less a predictor of how great that kid is going to turn out ten years down the road.</blockquote>