The girls and I loved the new Pixar
movie Inside Out. Parts of the movie were a little sad and a few parts could be
a little scary for younger children. I will say that it is not our favorite
movie of all time. It's hard to top Frozen and Dolphin Tale in my house.
I read this Family Discussion Guide from Oh Amanda
before we watched the movie.
"Kids don’t need
happy-happy-joy-joy, perfect days every single day of their
life."-OhAmanda
I talked about this with the girls.
We can't always have fun every single day and it's not my job as your mom to
try to make each day a perfect day. I am guilty of this sometimes though,
trying to make everyday fun and trying to make them happy. But the reality is
life is not like this and I don't want them growing up expecting it's
everyone's job to please them.
We talked about the different
emotions after the movie, about how sometimes we can have more than one emotion
at a time.
Last night was a good example of
this. My oldest was at a sleepover at a friend’s house, so it was just
Payton and I. We were watching a movie and the electricity went out in
our neighborhood. Payton was scared at first because it was so
dark. So at 9:30 at night we loaded up and drove down the road to Sonic and she
was very happy while eating her banana split. While we were
waiting on our banana split she asked, "Is this a dream?" She
is not used to staying up on a week night and getting ice cream before bed.
We drove back home to check if the
electricity to see if it had come back on yet. No such luck. Then Payton was sad because she was tired and missed her sissy. I am very
thankful a wonderful friend sent me a message and said we could stay with her
for the night.
This got me to thinking no-matter
which emotions we are going through, God is with us through it all.
“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have
peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the
world.”-John 16:33
Our
thoughts on the movie
My 9-yr-old loved Joy and my
5-yr-old thought Disgust was funny. When I asked them what their biggest fear
was, my 5 yr old said "ummmm". Apparently she doesn't
have any fears; I do call her my fearless one after all. My oldest said, "Tornados!'
right away. She is my worrier and she has a fear of bad weather. Then, a
minute later she said, "I am changing mine, my biggest fear is being
separated from God". I told her that was a good fear to have; we
always want to live our life trying to be closer to God.
Leave a comment below and let me
know what your family liked or didn't like about the movie.
-Casey
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