Yesterday, my Tween, her tween friend and tween friend’s teenager sister were sitting in our lounge room and watching a movie on TV. I laughed when I realised that they had put on one of the Tween’s old Barbie DVDs. I smiled as I listened to the conversation and the camaraderie emanating from the room as they watch the movie. It struck me as highly amusing that they wanted to watch a movie they had loved when they were younger but with older eyes, they were seeing things that they had missed previously. The comments were hilarious as they poked holes in the plot and the characters.
I discussed it with the Garden Gnome later and he had noticed the same thing. We both laughed. It must be hard to be at a place in your life where you want to hang on to your childhood but adulthood is coming at you 100 miles an hour. It doesn’t make it easier that the world is pushing grown up values on children.
I just want the Tween to continue to live in a Barbie fairytale for as long as she can before real life catches up.
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My husband and I sat down to watch a couple of the Shrek movies. We laughed until we cried. I like to visit the fun, carefree stuff of childhood. 🙂
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I still love Shrek. Truth be known, I’ve never grown out of Disney or Pixar movies. lol
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My son and my youngest will be 21 soon and I still miss taking him to the movies to see the latest movie cartoon releases. Don’t tell anyone, but H and I even considered going to see ‘Frozen’ over the weekend – but NO we opted for the new Hunger Games movie instead! Yes, its even hard for parents to let go of their children’s childhood.
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Definitely difficult to let go of her childhood. Having her later in life, I believe I have enjoyed her so much more. Although I adore my older children I don’t think I took the time to enjoy their childhood as much.
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I know exactly what you mean by that!
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My hubby and I love animated movies! I remember when we went to see Finding Nemo when it first came out. We were the oldest ones in the theater almost, lol.
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My two favourite scenes in Finding Nemo are when Dory meets Nemo’s dad and speaks with him and then thinks a stranger is following her. Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming…
And the seagulls “Mine, Mine” lol
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I see your a fin…I mean fan lol
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It is so hard to try to get them to ‘savor these moments’ because they WANT to grow up more than anything else…when we would just love more than anything else to find a way to keep them this way for a few more years…;)
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Yep. It’s a tightrope that’s for sure.
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My girls like to watch some of their old movies too, and sometimes mine. Of course the eighties movies are the ones they always mock 🙂 I still love them and love to watch them with the girls.
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But 80s movies are so much fun to mock. 😉 My daughter loves watching Gremlins with me. And we introduced her to Smokie and the Bandit earlier in the year.
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OOO those are both good ones! I love Labyrinth and Princess Bride 🙂
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“pushing grown up values on children” – They sure are! Kids these days feel that they have to grow up fast. Otherwise they’re the odd one out. It shouldn’t be that way. They should feel welcomed by their peers and society as a whole, to hold onto their childhood, for it lasts only a short time.
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Oh yes. I saw some of my daughter’s school mates this afternoon after school. There were two girls and a boy and I thought “There is trouble for their parents in the next couple of years or so”. And I was blessed because I knew my daughter was at home with her Dad. 🙂
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