Limit Your Kids to GOOD Movies

One thing my wife and I did was be conscious about what our kids watch. As we want them to maintain connections to their heritages, especially their language, we choose what they watch in terms of TV show and movies.

At the same time, we limit the number of movies and TV shows they can watch on their own. Whenever we watch something new (or let them choose) we watch together.

I would say - choose good movies or TV shows for your kids. There is a high chance that:

• they will watch it repeatedly
• you will watch it repeatedly

The last part will get you so much - my wife and I have watched the same movies for years sometimes weekly!

Pick your favorites and queue them up, especially for a rainy day in.

Kids movies now are different than what you had growing up and every time I’ve forced my preference on my kids, they rejected hard.

The only way to pick good movies is to participate in the selection process.

I’ve been lucky that our kids love movies that have a lot of depth to them, that even for me watching again, I’m picking out new details in the story, visually, inconsistencies, errors, goofs, or even reconnecting things in the movie.

(I appreciate the job of an editor now - because that’s what they do SOOOO much all day long. Watching the same thing on a loop, spotting errors, etc.)

While I work on making limiting good movies to my kids - sometimes I lose and let them pick - I can’t win them all (and ultimately, they need to be happy.)