How dare you!

How could you be so insensitive? Why would you show such a compromising image o little children like that? You shouldn't show such images to kids? Do you not care what this will do to their minds?

These are just a few of the thoughts that Christian moms probably think when watching a show or movie that they consider less than fitting for their child to see. As soon as they see that kind of media, they immediately say how our society is going downhill and asking what are they showing kids nowadays. As soon as there is a difficult image on the screen or a little too much language in a movie, the begin complaining how horrific it is.

I have met many a homeschool mom (and some moms who have their kids in public school) who shelter their kids and hide them away from the world's corruption. A think a little shelter is good when they are young (you wouldn't want your 7yr old watching a PG13 movie), but as they grow older it is ok to expose them to difficult concepts. Children can handle tough concepts better than you think they could. If you sit in a movie theater of a disney movie you will hear the kids laugh when it is funny and become serious when it becomes sad.

I know that when I was a kid I watched movies, especially disney, because of the actions and the jokes the characters said. However, I do remember the feelings I had when baloo the bear from the jungle book was thought to be dead or when Cinderella was trapped in the tower by her stepmother or when Simba's father Mufasa died or even when the Beast was dying and Belle told him she loved him. Children are capable of feeling and grasping what heartbreaking emotions are, we just need to give them a chance to experience that and to grow because of it.

                                                  ( I did not draw this by the way)