Later I overheard one of the Assistants telling a 4 year old child, XM, that one of their friends met 'Harry Potter' saying to the child that Harry Potter 'was real', and he was 'alive' and a real person.
The back story to the child and some other peers were that they were going on about 'casting spells' and some of the Assistants were actually encouraging them.
Now, I have no problem with Harry Potter, or watching their movies. But I do have a problem when a child who is yet to differentiate reality from truth is told that what they see in movies is 'real'. The Assistants did not realise the way they were talking was confusing the child.
Today in the afternoon, the same child XM, was with me, and had asked me for some stick and connectors set which he said he wanted to use to cast some spells. Now, I have put away that particular set as the children were not using them appropriately in the way it should.
When I told him that Harry Potter was not real, XM protested saying that it 'was real as someone had met him'.
So explained to him that 'yes, someone had met Harry Potter, but he was the person who was pretending to be Harry Potter'.
XM did not really understand, so I had to explain further.
'remember how you are pretending sometimes when you are playing outside with your toys? Well, this person is also like that. He's a real person, but he's 'pretending' to be Harry Potter' but he's not Harry Potter'.
There is a reason why action hero movies are restricted to children until they reach a certain age, or can only watch with parental guidance. The above is one of the reasons.
I concur.
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my brother believed in Power Rangers and decided to be one of them when he grows up. that was some years ago when he was 12!
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