I’m from an all girl family and, pretty much, the only movie we watched while growing up was Seven Brides for Seven Brothers — true story. In fact, my sisters and I still giggle at the video attendance’s response to our 6 monthly visit to the store; it went like this: “Ahhh, you got this movie out 6 months ago and nothing in-between.” That was about right.
My husband, on the other hand, grew up on Star Wars, a movie I didn’t watch until I was eighteen or so when, my then boyfriend, decided to enlighten me to the wonders of the force. I didn’t get it — really. My husband is known to have entire conversations through Star Wars quotes — oh brother — it’s rather disturbing. Believe it or not, it’s become something I’ve grown to love my husband for and, dare I say it — I cringe as I write — I’ve actually been known to quote Star Wars myself. {gulp}
Last school holidays, my husband suggested watching A New Hope with our two older children. Well, I freaked out: WHAT! NO WAY! THEY ARE TOO YOUNG! They haven’t watched Seven Brides for Seven Brothers yet and, well, they are not eighteen!
My husband explained how he grew up on Star Wars and wanted to share it with his children, watching the movies in the order he did. I still wasn’t sure but sometimes, I need trust my husband and let Dad have his way.
So they watched the first episode of Star Wars (A New Hope PG) and I could see how much fun Blu had sharing the movie with his girls. It’s not something I would have chosen but I’m not the only one raising our children. It was a little hard for me but I was glad I Let Dad Have His Way.
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HI Kelly
I love this message it is very funny and also very true…I think it is great your kids watched a move that your hubby loves so much ….now it must be your turn go get out the one u loved so much as a girl and show them your favourite…
I love showing my daughter movies , cartoons, books, toys anything i liked as a child…it is fun sharing our old likes isn’t it….
As always thanks for sharing with us all…
(and p.s I love all the Star Wars movies too and we got them out when my daughter was about 7 or 8 and we watched them all it was great fun!)
I will have to track down SBFSB so I can watch it with the girls too.
My husband and I have these moments too.
He is the one who let my girls watch Dr Horrible – they can now quote the whole show
He also let them watch Monster House which resulted in two blog posts ranting about the fall out from that.
But I think he did at least learn his lesson from that.
My girls are now watching Astro Boy (the original cartoon) and Gigantor, both favs. from their Daddys childhood.
However I don’t think I will be letting the girls watch Creep Show 2 at their 10th birthday party like Daddy did.
I remembering saying to my husband. If you chose to go down this path then I would like you to watch the behaviour afterwards and deal with it accordingly. ie. killing etc.
I LOVED Astro Boy!
I am laughing so hard over this Kell and you know why!!! Great!!!
LOL! I know!!
I’m with Trish – it’s such fun sharing things we love(d). I’m very proud of the fact i taught my son to love humour. He loves Monty Python, The Goon Show, listening to BBC radio shows, not the usual thing for his generation, but a great source of shared pleasure for both of us.
I’m glad Susan… sounds like you have a great relationship.
In our house there is a constant battle for which movie to watch…over the last 15yrs of marriage we have agreed to disagree. As for the kids I think the lines are definitley drawn…the boys are on daddys side and my one an only daughter is 100% on my side.Some battles will never be won.
The one and only common ground is …believe it or not….Mary Poppins.This movie is a family favourite.So come October we will be seeing the live musical of Mary Poppins. It will be the kids first musical, I cannot wait to share this wonder ful experience with them…I love musicals!!
Mary Poppins! YAY! You KNOW I love Mary Poppins. A lot of it comes down to trust in your husband. I really had to trust him on this and, if it was a mistake, allow him to learn from it. I find that really hard sometimes.
lol I agree with hubby….Go the Star Wars.
I haven’t introduced my daughter to A New Hope yet. I started with Episode 1 and then the Clone Wars cartoons. I might go for Episodes 2 and 4 over the school holidays.
Lol I was probably your girls’ age roughly when I got hooked on Star Wars myself. It might seem like a boys movie, but what girl wouldn’t like to be swept off her feet by a handsome man with a lightsaber (even if he turns out to be your brother)
The girls LOVED it and really got into it, much to my husbands delight.
The movie that we quote all the time is “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure” – of course we introduced our kids to it and now we all speak “excellent” Bill & Ted!
Not at all into Star Wars myself, but I love the message here. Sometimes I have to be reminded to let my husband make parenting decisions!
I think more about parenting than my husband does (with the reality that he has a lot of things on his mind with work etc). I get used to just “checking” things with him. This means that when he does have something he wants to do with the children, sometimes I am a little bit put off and find it hard to let him initiate too!
Ahhh Kel, the amazing memories this brings back! As the sister of your star wars loving hubby, I am now looking forward to sharing this with Sammy when he’s old enough!
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