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How I Traumatized My Kid (I’m a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Parent)

By Anne Radcliffe August 27, 2014

Hey parents: not all PG-13s movies are rated alike.

Just sayin’. This is foreshadowing, here.

We had watched Pirates of the Caribbean on Netflix some time ago, and my then-five-year-old took that particular PG-13 movie quite well. He proceeded to watch it another 38,962 times, and made us go to the Pirate Museum in St. Augustine, Florida, before we set foot anywhere else, including the Castillo de San Marcos right across the street. He forced his parental wallets to shell out for a cheap plastic souvenir saber and a pirate hat. Then he proceeded to pose by every cannon he could find (there are a lot of old cannons in St. Augustine) and shouted, “I’m Captain Jack Sparrow!”

Head on over to Food Retro to find out what PG-13 movie traumatized Anne’s kid…

Author Anne Radcliffe

Anne usually speaks in memes and SAT words, and she frequently attempts to explain the laws of physics and high school chemistry according to the kitchen via her home blog FoodRetro. If you want to know why ice melts or pretzels turn brown, and you want to make food that you never imagined could be made from scratch in the process, she's your blogger. Her friends describe her as "hilarious when you get to know her," but it could be that they are just amused by the way she gets riled up when reading the paper. She can also be found playing the part of community editor and grammar nazi here on BLUNTmoms.