Emo Kid Continued

You probably read about Arda's feelings toward inanimate objects. He also has a tendency to get very emotional while watching movies as well. He was only 4 when he first saw Ice Age and to this day, every single time he watches it, he runs to his bedroom and tries to occupy himself with something.

Since he was sick all of last week, we had our share of watching movies - Nanny McPhee is very popular with Tunca - what child doesn't adore kids who call themselves poop bum anyways. So the three of us are sitting/lying down on the couch right in front of the TV and Arda, with all his fever, gets up and runs to his room, crying, "that evil, evil woman!" It was the scene where the soon to be new stepmother of the kids breaks the baby's rattle left by their dead mother.

The next day, we're watching a movie about a crow, and the crow, after being locked up and put on live TV (no idea how the plot goes, I was playing Puzzle Quest on the DS) flies to some backyard and steals a toddler's toy, so the toddler toddles (ugh) off the yard into the street looking for it, leaving, yeah you guessed, Arda, to run back to his room, screaming, "the kid's gonna get lost!!"

Is it too early to see a shrink, or should I feel blessed to have a child "in touch" with his feelings?

My very own emo kid!

My older son, Arda, has always been the emotional type. Even when he was a toddler, he would cry when a slightly mellow song came on the radio, and when Moe says goodbye to the baby in Ice Age.

We went to see Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium today - just the two of us. He got teary eyes NOT when Mr. Mag says he's going to die, or when he DOES die - but he did start to bawl every single time the sock monkey appeared.



He is attached to inanimate objects like crazy - it's so easy to manipulate that we shamelessly use his feelings to make him do things he doesn't want to do..

- But, what about his little piece of carrot - you just ate his mommy and he will be soooo sad if you separate them.

or

(when fighting with Tunca about who's going to play with the brand spanking new shiny black Nintendo DS Lite)

- But your old DS feels sooo abandoned and thinks you don't play with it because it has all those scratches.. Just like Woody in Toy Story (yes, Disney movies DO have a big place in our daily conversations)

Terrible parenting.

My worst nightmare: Less than a decade from now he'll be telling his shrink how we used this against him and that's the reason why he can't "connect" or "commit" emotionally.