I live with a clone trooper - a 4 year old one who wears his helmet while he plays the Lego Star Wars video game and while he walks around our house with his gun. Our house lives and breathes Star Wars - the movies, video games, action figures, you name it. Ricky recites lines from the movies and hums the Imperial March while he plays or sits on the potty.A few weeks ago, Mark (who claims the first movie was life changing--of course he was 5 at the time) decided it was time to let Ricky watch the Star Wars movies. We waited on the third episode - Revenge of the Sith because it was a bit too violent (i.e. dismembering and decapitating Count Dooku, dismembering and burning Anakin Skywalker, etc.) but eventually watched it with him and fast forwarded the bad parts or covered his eyes.
It's waaaayyy too late to do anything about it now, but I wonder if it was a bad idea to expose a 4 year old to Star Wars already. I guess I was 4 myself when my parents took me to see Episode 4 and they never covered my eyes. Am I crazier than I would have been had they not? Can't really tell.
