In a shocking twist, science fiction is being blamed for turning children into dinosaurs.
In a blog post from last month, “Is Your Child Acting Strangely? Dinosaur Costumes May Be To Blame!” the author writes:
“I have previously written about the problems that can arise if you allow your child to watch ‘The Land Before Time’ and other dinosaur movies.”
“Now I see that the same is true of dinosaur costumes.”
“This morning my 8-year-old son was wearing the Jurassic World ‘T-Rex Inflatable Costume’ that he got for his birthday.”
“As usual, it was a constant source of amusement and I never quite knew what to expect next.”
Are your children acting strangely? Do they begin to stomp around the house and make strange noises? Do they cower when you approach them? Do they run away from you when you call their names? Does your child become angry when he/she cannot get his/her way? If so, you may have a case of Dinosauritis.
Dinosauritis is a disease that is affecting many children between the ages of 3-8 years old. The disease is caused by reading or watching stories about Dinosaurs. This disease will cause your child to act like a dinosaur in their daily lives. They will begin to speak in growls and roars, stomp around the house, and not be able to control their actions. Your child may also become very possessive over their toys, food, and space causing them to become aggressive towards others. Some children may attack or bite others, or try to run away from home. There have been some cases where children have locked themselves in their rooms for days on end, refusing to come out.
If you think your child has dinosauritis seek help immediately! Your doctor can prescribe a medicine that will cure your child of this terrible disease over time. However, if your child is already showing signs of aggression and violent behavior it may be
If you’ve ever wondered if your child was acting strangely, the answer is “yes”. But chances are that they were not acting strangely enough.
Luckily, there’s a cure: inflatable dinosaur costumes. Researchers at the University of Manchester found that putting one on improved children’s attention and concentration levels.
The study showed that children who wore such outfits were more attentive than those who did not. And furthermore, the fancier the costume, the better was their attention span!
The university’s Dr Nick Neave said: “We know from previous research that exercise has a positive effect on cognitive function in children but we wanted to test whether the same benefits could be achieved from wearing an inflatable dinosaur costume.”
“We believe this is because the costumes are novel and engaging for children and require a lot of effort to move around in them, mimicking the effects of exercise.”
The Jurassic Park movies have been a runaway success, with the most recent movie, Jurassic World, grossing $1.6 billion. The movies are so successful due to the incredible special effects and computer graphics that make them seem so real.
The children of today have grown up watching these movies and many have become fascinated by dinosaurs. Unfortunately, this fascination has been taking over their lives and causing them to act out dinosaur-like behaviors in public.
Alicia Miller is a mother of two young boys who recently took her family to see Jurassic World on opening day. They had waited an hour in line for tickets and when they got inside everyone was excited to start watching the movie. After 15 minutes into the movie Alicia noticed her oldest son acting strangely. He began stomping his feet on the ground and making loud noises while shaking his head. She thought nothing of it at first, but as time went on he became more aggressive with his actions until he eventually stood up and began walking around grunting loudly while bumping into other people in the theater.
Alicia left the theater with her two boys immediately after the incident, but she is not alone when it comes to this type of strange behavior from children exposed to dinosaurs at a young age. Many parents nowadays are
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the growing concern over children who suddenly start acting like dinosaurs. For example, one couple in London said that their son had developed a “seizure trigger” when they said the word dinosaur, and as soon as he heard it, he would fall to the floor and start making strange noises.
In my previous post I focused on why this was happening and how parents could deal with it. Today, I want to look at what may be causing this problem in the first place – specifically, stories about dinosaurs that are circulating around school playgrounds.
Dinosaur stories have been around for centuries, but they have never been as popular as they are today. The most recent craze started with a series of books by Michael Crichton called Jurassic Park (1990), which has sold over a million copies worldwide. These books were then adapted into movies (Jurassic Park: The Lost World) and television shows (The Land Before Time).
Other authors have also written books in this genre, including David Macaulay’s How Dinosaurs Came to Be (1995), which tells how three dinosaurs escape extinction and make their way through time to the present day; Richard Ford’s T-Rex: A Dinosaur Story (1997), which tells
When I was a boy, I had a dinosaur costume. The rest of the year it was a pterodactyl costume, but at Halloween, I wore it as a Tyrannosaurus Rex. It was one of those inflatable costumes with the plastic fan in the back and the battery pack in the pocket. I loved that costume.
The only problem was that my arms were stuck inside these little T-Rex arms, which meant that any time I wanted to point at something, my arm flailed around by my hip instead. Which wasn’t exactly like a real T-Rex, because their tiny arms couldn’t even reach their hips.
One day when I was wearing that costume, my mother told me not to climb up on the kitchen counter because there were knives up there. I replied “Don’t worry about me! I’m a T-Rex!” And then promptly fell off the counter and cut myself badly enough to need stitches.
It didn’t occur to her until years later that maybe this incident could explain why so many palaeontologists are fascinated with dinosaurs:
Perhaps our childhoods in dinosaur costumes not only made us look like dinosaurs but induced us to act like them too.