Perils of TV

So, yesterday, my 2 and a half year old watches, what I consider to be the most benign show on tv, Little Bear. And in this episode (I didn't see it but my husband recounted it to me later) the North Wind was fighting with Little Bear's father.

Of course, it happens to be windy at our house that day. And of course, my son suddenly becomes terrified of the wind. We even had an incident where I thought he was being obstinate (he hit the side of my car with a bucket full of lizards (whole nother story) and wouldn't do what I told him to) and then he hit me when I picked him up to take him to his room. He spent several minutes screaming in his room. Boy didn't I feel bad later when I figured out he had actually been terrified.

So, I made up this big thing about how it wasn't the scary North Wind, it was the friendly East Wind saying "Hi Joe". That didn't work. Today he seems OK. But then it's not windy today.