Mr. Bean
By LadyLudie
@LadyLudie (359)
Philippines
March 23, 2009 5:57am CST
I have a 4 year old grandaughter who is fond watching this Mr. Bean.I allowed her watching it because I thought it's just ok...it is viewed every morning,and as the days go by, I noticed something, she has started imitating what Mr. Bean is doing...like for example; when Mr. Bean put the noodles in a bath tub to boil,or when he is brushing his teeth in his car and driving the car using his feet while dressing up.These things are in her mind;
One afternoon she heard me saying "we'll have spaghetti for the evening" immediately she hurried to the table, she got the pocket of spaghetti and rush to the bathroom,it's good that I noticed her so I followed,when she was inside the bathroom, she stared at the bath tub,and attempt to open the pocket, this time I avoided her and asked why and what is her plan,she replied immediately; this is how Mr bean did when he cooked the spaghetti, I was surprised, and suddenly I remembered before three days, when she was brushing her teeth she was lying down while her feet were on the wheel of her bike.So for now I stopped her watching Mr. Bean.
I have nothing against with this film, but for me I realized that it maybe fun to watch but it's not funny if the children will imitate for what he is doing.I don't find too any good lesson from this film.I'm sorry.
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4 responses
@kdmlrys (398)
• United States
5 Apr 09
Mr. Bean is hilarious and I think your granddaughter and I, will get along in no time because I'm a Mr. Bean fan myself. But of course, it's part of the hilarity sometimes, which is to show something that is quite disturbing in the eyes of some people, specifically parents. Mr. Bean, although the character is childish, still falls into the PG-13 category. Parental Guidance is a must.
@getnbuy (1312)
• United States
23 Mar 09
Well, if she is going to imitate what she sees I guess you had better let her watch good role models! I am not up on kids stuff, but maybe veggie tales or something with a good moral would be good for her. some people are crazy about Mr. Bean. I have a friend who loves his movies. I think they are kind of dumb, myself. but, its not the movie's fault. Your grandaughter is just impressionable. So give her good stuff to watch!
@krupesh (2608)
• India
23 Mar 09
You are right.Even my son imitates Mr.Beans' actions.Several times I have told him not to but he still continues to imitate.I think till they are mature enough they might imitate but if the imitation involves some risk then there will be a problem.
@pavan4568 (122)
• India
23 Mar 09
I read these kind of incidents a lot especially done by kids and there was this incident of my cousin's son - He watched spider man and asked for spider man dress and when my cousin denied, he roared for it untill he gets one and one final day, he bought it for him and strangely, my cousin found he was trying to jump from the terrace. Thank god.. he noticed it and stopped.
I understood that kids are really sensitive to what they see and offcourse they don't have knowledge to think much to know what they are doing is right or not.