Maybe I Live Under a Rock

So it wasn’t until last week that I actually saw the movie Frozen. (It’s okay, go ahead. I’ll wait for you to pick yourself up off the floor.) I will say that, generally speaking, I enjoy Disney movies. But you have to temper that with the fact that I have boys and they’re considerably less into every single princess movie that comes along. (Go figure.) This is, actually, quite okay with me because I was never really into the whole princess thing myself. I mean, I like Cinderella and Snow White and Sleeping Beauty, but those are really the only ones. And I was never raised to be into that whole princess thing anyway. Point being, I don’t cry when we don’t have to rush out to see every princess thing that happens.

But it’s an animated movie and you really can’t escape the fact that it’s out there when you have kids so…we broke down and watched it. And…it was fine, mostly. I won’t get deeply into my diatribe on the whole Let it Go song – I’ll just say we need to really think about encouraging our kids to embrace and idolize a song that downplays the importance of self-control, right and wrong, and truth. (Seriously, read through the lyrics. Without a good conversation about the precepts that song is trying to instill, your kids shouldn’t just be singing along.)

Anyway, so much could have been avoided (including that ridiculous song) if it had ended as suggested in the clip below.