EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | Contact
A Betoota Ponds dad has unfortunately given his eldest son a core traumatic memory this week, by failing to use common sense at the worst possible time, it’s reported.
The self confessed sci fi movie whizz, Greg Harris [36] can often be found rewatching the same movies he used to watch with his own dad, with Star Wars, Terminator, and Alien being their flicks of choice – albeit, Greg was at least a teenager by the time his dad introduced him to on screen violence.
So far, Greg’s son Henry has fared very well with the Terminator movies and has even become quite the avid fan of Arnie, to the point where he much prefers to watch movies that will put him severely out of touch with his peers.
Unfortunately for Greg, he probably should have put a little more thought into introducing his son to ‘Alien’, which was watched just two days after having the ‘mummy is pregnant’ chat.
A very guilty looking Greg tells us more.
“Henry has always been pretty good with gore but I forgot about that scene”, he says sheepishly, “the wife and I only just told him a week ago what being pregnant means.”
“We did the whole ‘you have a little brother in mummy’s tummy!’, which, you know, he had a little bit of trouble understanding.”
“But after watching Alien, he now thinks his little brother is an alien who will burst out of his mother’s stomach.”
“When we eventually got him to stop screaming, we tried to explain that his brother isn’t an alien.”
“But yeah, now he hates his unborn brother.”
“Off to a great start.”
