Movie Watching With the Kids - Motherhood is Calling

Our kids love movies.  There.  I admit it.  Does that make me a bad homeschool mama?  Maybe.  However, we live in a climate where about seven months out of the year, it's just too hot to do anything (like even breathe) outside.

So my kids get to watch a lot of movies, at least during the long Arizona summer.  We have a Netflix account, which I absolutely love.  In fact, that's one of the things I like most about our technological-mad world we live in.  Really, where else can you get so many cool, old, classic and family-friendly movies?  My kids have fallen in love with Bob Hope, Lucille Ball and John Wayne, as well as old Disney movies.  You would never see these at Blockbuster, that's for sure.  Plus, who wants to walk down the aisles at Blockbuster?  All you see are the jackets of horror movies or suggestive pictures of scantily-clad women.  Um, no thank you.

Lest I sound like a huge Netflix advertisement, there is also another option:  the library.  The library is a good option if you don't have a Netflix account and it free.  Our local library has a pretty good selection, especially since they do interlibrary loans throughout the country, but there's a hefty fine if you're late.  You can check movies out for a week (renewable if no one else is on the list to check it out) but for every day you're late, it's a $2 fine.  I can't take that kind of pressure, people!!!  That's why we resort to Netflix most of the time.

We are pretty picky about the movies our kiddos watch.  I know every family has their own standards and ideas, which is great.  We have been convicted about particular things and that reflects in our movie choices.  Our kids don't watch many movies that we haven't seen yet.  If we haven't seen them, we make sure to read the movie reviews, like Focus on the Family's Plugged In or talk to friends who know about them.  We also don't do princess movies with our girls or magic (like Harry Potter).  That's just what works for us.  I know that others don't necessarily agree with us (some within our own families), but thankfully we are the parents, even though that makes us the bad guys a lot of time.  For the most part, our kids are understanding about why we do what we do (and we we don't do certain things).

How do you pick movies for your young'uns?  It's Motherhood is Calling Monday so link up here, use the cute little button and make sure you let me know you stopped by!