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Bonus Episode: Parental Guidance (Patreon)

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2020-08-23 18:39:27
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2020-08

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Our recent special episode on Studio Ghibli's Castle In the Sky prompted a fair amount of discussion from the parents among us — that would be Keith and Scott — about watching movies with their kids, which made us realize it's a topic that could easily fill an episode all by itself. And so here we are! Tasha convened our NPS dads to share their respective approaches to both nurturing and monitoring their kids' cultural intake — movies in particular — how they deal with the disappointment of loving something their kids just don't, and how watching a movie as a parent can color your own viewing of it. 

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Josh Hammond

Wow did this one speak to me. My daughter is seven and it has been an interesting cinematic journey.

Josh Hammond

Sorry - didn't know return = post; continued from above). Like Scott and Keith, we do family movie night. Our only experiment with letting her pick was Adam Sandler's Bedtime Stories. That experiment was not repeated. Similarly, my daughter has her own peculiar intensity limits. She's fine with the melting faces in Raiders and the melting gremlins in Gremlins, but scenes of kids getting in trouble really freak her out. She barely made it through the (extremely minor) scene in Home Alone where Kevin gets chased by the cop on the ice rink; Inside Out was a disaster. And I wish I dealt as well with the frustration of watching movies with kids as it sounds like Scott and Keith do. When my daughter said Kiki's Delivery Service was both too boring (what?!) and too sad (which I get), it broke my heart. We haven't tried another Ghibli since. Maybe Grave of the Fireflies?

Michael Green

Filmspotting has a Top 5 a few years ago related to this topic and as a first time expecting Dad I am nervous my kid will hate movies altogether!!! Excited to listen to this later in the week! Thanks for great bonus content!

Leaflemming

My children were 9 & 11 when I got my first professional film reviewing gig. I was a single parent & media screenings in New Zealand were at that point almost exclusively 630pm week night affairs; I had to take the job on the basis that babysitting issues might mean I'd have to resign after a couple of months. Instead I ended up taking my kids to every screening I legally could, and it became one of the core aspects of their childhood. They saw a lot of things friends and relatives considered way, way too old for them. The friends and relatives were definitely not 100% wrong, but if I could change anything about how I raised them, it wouldn't be this. Best memories: teaching them what a filmography was by watching the complete works of Miyazaki over two months. And going to Malick's Tree of Life with them for the second time, after we all hated it the first time and a friend said, yeah, I did too the first time, but the second time you'll get it. That was how they learned what complex art looks like. TLDR: a broad film diet can be really good for kids. Thank you for this episode, it made me smile a lot.