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a while back we knew we had to see it. What can I say we love animated movies. We where watching animated movies long before we had our son, and now that he is here we just get to watch even more of them!
Tangled is the story of Rapunzel who was kidnapped as an infant after an evil women realized that her hair had a unique special power. The women locked her away in a hidden tower to keep her to herself. Then one day a thief, by the name of Flynn Ryder stumbles upon the tower. This chance encounter leads Rapunzel on an adventure in search of answers and a journey to find herself.
The movie has a good story line, and is something the whole family can enjoy. The whole family found itself caught up in the adventure. We laughed a lot and thoroughly enjoyed it!
I enjoy being a husband and father, and I always try to take away as much as a I can from what I read, watch, and listen too. I often ask what can I learn from this, or how can I relate to this? Even is it is an animated movie!
While watching the movie three things jumped out at me about raising children:
- Dreamers – Allow your kids to dream. Let them aspire to be something big. Do not stifle their dreams, but encourage them. Nothing is worse than breaking a kid of being a dreamer! So many adults have lost the ability to dream big. Encourage to never stop dreaming, and dreaming big dreams.
- Experience – Kids need to experience things. They need to experience successes and failures and learn from them. They will take away so muck from those experiences. Do not over-protect them. Let them make mistakes. I am not saying let them get hurt (badly anyway, or do something illegal, but some mistakes are needed to learn from.
- Unique and Special - My wife and I together are around a lot of kids with our families. I have learned that kids are all unique in some way. That is what makes them special. Allow them to cherish that uniqueness as something that is special to them. They do not have to be like everyone else. They can be themselves.
If you have not seen Tangled I would highly recommend it. It is good fun for the entire family.
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I love that movie. Glad it taught you a lot about parenting.
I haven’t heard from you in a while over on my blog. I’ve wrote some pretty epic stuff. A Recent trip to Thailand, and a few other posts. Check them out when you get the chance.
I will have to check those out!
Tangled is great. We love it and recently got it for my daughter. My favorite animated movie right now is Despicable Me.
I think the hardest thing for me is allowing my kids to experience things – the hard things, the tough things, the frustrating things like you said above.
Great post Adam.
We just watched Despicable Me a couple of nights ago. We really enjoyed it!
I’ll be honest, I think I enjoy that movie more than my girls. And they like it a lot.
Good thoughts today, Adam. I think that cultivating our children’s interests and personalities is so important. It certainly allows them to take hold of their uniqueness.
Thanks Dustin. The wife and I are going to purchase it we liked it so much!
This is on my list to rent. My twins are 6 weeks old so they don’t watch many movies. I am hoping that my wife and I can stay awake long enough to enjoy this one when we do finally rent it.
Rent this one for sure. My wife and I really like it. Six week old twins…I bet staying awake is hard. Thanks for taking the time to stop by and comment.
I have to say, one of my favorite movies from last year. I really loved it. Good job on the lessons learned. I was also very moved by the lesson of allowing our kids to imagine and to explore. Well done Adam.
Thanks Moe! I think it may be in my top animated movies now i liked it that much.
Never been a big fan of animated movies. But I’m sure that will change when lil Waldrop gets here in November. I liked the second lesson. Kids need to learn that it’s ok to fail sometimes. As long as you learn from those failures and keep moving forward.
Great thoughts Adam!
Thanks Joseph. You better learn to like them…you will have a lot of them in your future my friend…
I think our family may have watched this movie 20 times in a row. I love that animated films appeal to all audiences and how my perspective changes watching them now as a parent.
Tangled was a great movie and glad y’all enjoyed it.
Perspective change as a parent is so true.
I was planning on watching the Megamind I bought this past weekend, but my wife packed it up for our move coming in a couple of months. Guess I will have to wait and watch it a few months from now. Guess that’s what I get for leaving stuff sitting on the mantle
My wife and I loved the movie as well. We laughed, we cried, we bought the t-shirt
After seeing it in the movie theatre (on a date with my wife no less), we were inspired and hopefule that we could teach our daughter some of the finer points displayed by the young heroine.
I think it will be awhile before we show the movie to the whole family. We have a child that has trouble distinguishing reality from non-reality and there are some scenes – especially with the witch, um…fake mom, that would be pretty scary for him. Although, I just put it on my Netflix list so the wife and I can see it again – maybe we could skip the some parts of the movie so the kids could get the rest of the story.
True. Some animated movies can be really iffy. I think you should be able to fast forward through those parts and they can still enjoy it.