Lessons From Movie Night

Many of my favorite childhood movies don’t resonate quite the same with my kids as they did with me.

- Derek James

What’s more, many of the movies I watched as a kid make me wonder if parents in the 1980s and 1990s paid much attention to what their kids were watching at all. Things have definitely changed since 1991 when my friend Justin and I rode our bikes to a theater and were allowed to go in and watch the R-rated “Terminator II: Judgment Day” at the ripe age of 12 … without an adult.

My boys are now 10 and almost 8. We as a family are beginning to wade outside of the “little kid” movie pool. While my boys won’t be seeing a Terminator movie any time soon, we are checking out a lot of classic movies that my wife and I watched and loved when we were children.