Worried about Looking Like a Moby Dick

This chapter of Bluey Bros refers to episode 1:27, Pirates. In this podcast we discuss the great storytelling and the voice acting talents of Melanie Zanetti; we discuss imagination and reality as it pertains to young children and why sometimes imaginary activities elicit responses that would be more appropriate if the scenario was real. Interestingly we see Bandit also struggling to face his fear of giving himself up to imaginative play for fear of the judgement of strangers. In Bandit’s case there’s an interesting dynamic related to masculinity, but it doesn’t have to be. We tend to fear negative evaluation of peers. We discuss the ways in which our anxieties can become enlarged when we don't confront it.