A parenting tale of Bad Process, Good (Mostly) Outcome: 1. Cindy discovers a 5:00 Saturday showing at Geeksboro of Howls Moving Castle and suggests it would be fun to take the kids to it. She is thinking Miyazaki movies! Theyre pretty! 2. I make a couple of feeble suggestions that they might be too young for it, then shrug and buy the tickets. I am thinking You want to take small children to see a terrifying movie about the horrors of war *why*? Oh well. You probably have a good reason. 3. Everett finds the movie terrifying almost from the get-go, and is vocal -- though, for a 5-year-old, quietly so - about it. I offer to take him for a walk, but Cindy gathers him to her lap. For two hours Everett provides a running quiet narrative that includes a lot of questions and a lot of Im scareds, but just enough this is a really good movies that my next couple of offers to take him for a walk are also rejected; Cindy keeps him hugged and mollified very quietly. No one in the audience tries to kill us. 4. Donovan spends two hours intently leaning forward in his seat watching the movie. 5. Since then the boys imaginations have been happily captured by the movie. Weve answered as many questions as we can about the story, but in a lot of cases well need to read the original book to know the answers. The original book is by Dianna Wynne Jones, and is thus presumptively excellent. Philip Sandifer argues that the greatest and most-loved childrens stories are those which traumatize them in productive ways. I had that in mind when buying the tickets, too; and he, at least, would surely approve of us.
Posted on: Mon, 19 May 2014 23:17:54 +0000
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