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So, maybe I am a bad parent.
My 2 boys and I watched Transformers tonight. It was AWESOME!! After the show, we engaged in about a 30 minute battle royal, in which Dadatron unfortunately met his demise to Alexhyde and Isaacusprime.
I can hear the gasp from you all that I let my 4 and 8 year olds watch a PG-13 movie. Well, before tonight, watching this movie would never have been an option. Jenny usually has to screen even a PG movie 5 or six times before the kids get a pass to view it. So, for Christmas, we received a super cool DVD player from a company called ClearPlay .
Some friends of ours, The Sansoms, put us on to this player that edited your movies for you! With a membership comes a jump drive where one can download edited movie files from the ClearPlay website. Then, when the movie is playing, it automatically skips over swear words, gratuitous sex and violence, and a whole grundle of other filtering options.
It is awesome.
My boys and I were able to sit down and watch a whole bunch of fantastic, "clean" violence and afterwards, we could beat our chests (and each other) into oblivion.
The player cost $50 from Target and the year membership is around $8 bucks each time you update your movie archive. Currently, there are about 3500 movies.
Even for me and Jenny, the filtering options are great in that we don't have to listen to or see the things that make us cringe and feel uncomfortable.
So, look out Spiderman, Superman, and all the other kids' heroes that Alex and Isaac haven't been able to meet on the big screen, here we come!
Technology is awesome.
But in other news......
We are the SANSOMS.
If we are going to continue dating, you have to know our last name. : )
OK, sorry! I never said I was good at spelling! Sorry about that and it has been corrected.
So glad that there is a way to salvage the good from the movies these days. What will they think of Next!!!
gmamary&gparick