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So I do not talk much about my personal life on my blog. Mostly it has to do with the fact that my life has been uneventful lately. I usually like to talk more about the people in my life and hear what they have to say. This is ironic because i am a chatter box. Who is at times is hard to shut up. A lot of times it’s me being a nerd about comedians or TV shows like. Anyways My Brother Josh who is a really good writer. Wrote a story about a habit that our Mom's. Every mom has movies they ban from their kids. This is understandable because there are movie’s that are not good for a child to watch. Like Mom's who take there kids who are 5 to Harry Potter 7 6 or 5. The later books are dark. Of course your kids are scared. The movie is supposed to be violent. That also means when I go to see part 2 this summer I want to go to an Imax so no crying babies ruin this for me. For the record, I think the right age to read Harry potter is age 6, 7 and 8. The early books 1 and 2 maybe 3. Books 4, 5, 6 and 7 are dark and I would suggest being teenagers to read those books.
. Oh god I am getting off topic. Actually I am not because that was on of the movie and books I was banned from. I was the appropriate age to read Harry Potter as well when it came out too. The ban list my mom had for me was different for me than my brothers. Harry potter was on that list. Because if you press the link to my brothers story. Which I do suggest you read it’s really funny. You will see one of the movie’s on the list was Escape to Witch Mountain. Witch Is the key word in why these were banned. Although the irony was that our Mom read the Narina books to my brother as kids because they were christen themed. Even though those books had witch craft in them. But I guess its OK because the witches and wizards were bad guys. They tried to read them to me but I never got through lion witch and the wardrobe. I still can’t get through them even though everyone tells me they are great. Somehow I just can’t enjoy those books. I am getting off topic again. The best way to describe my mom is she is really into her christen faith and she gets easily offended by the most ridiculous things. Although she is not as bad as the roommates we currently have from her church who told there grandson that The Wizards of Waverly place was evil. Even though it’s the least offensive show about witches I have ever watched. It’s like Sabrina the Teenage Witch or Bewitched but its for kids. This is not about how ridiculous my roommates are this is about my mom. Any ways I am going to make my list before I keep babbling on more.
(Oh one side note I would like to add. Because I have 3 older siblings, that were all boys. I would somehow end up watching teen movies that were not appropriate for me. Sometimes my mom would disapprove. And sometimes she would not even notice. For example Clueless, I remember watching Clueless at a young age. Not understanding most of it but liking it. Oh and my family would watch Seinfeld together. I still watched it when I was way too young. Also watching clueless at a young age was great for me because I was exposed to Paul Rudd at a young age even though I did not care for him much at that time I still appreciated it. Also watching Seinfeld at a young age is the reason of why I think I am such a nerd about comedy. Also having 3 brothers and one who picked on me a lot could also be the reason why I am such a nerd about comedy. )
1) PokEmon
A Japanese anemie that really popular in my school. That all the cool kids and i liked. My mom was OK with it. Until an episode where a creator had physic powers came up. She turned off the TV and told me i was not allowed to watch the show. I would sneak over to a friends house in my neighbor hood to watch it but my told her mom i was not allowed to watch it so i had to go home that day. Also the pokEmon Trading cards. I got really into. My mom would not let me play with them.
2) Harry Potter
I can understand why a lot of christen parents were mad about it. It was a big controversial subject with christens when it came out. My teacher in 3rd grade wanted to read it to my class but, my mom and a mom were mad. Called up my school and tried to get my teacher to stop reading it. She also to me to go to the bathroom every time it was read to the class. My teacher had to stop reading because of the complaints from parents. But she had an assignment for us to use our imaginations and write our own ending to the story. My teacher also encouraged us to read the rest of the book and makeup our own minds about it. Although i will admit at that time was Jesus freak kid, who obedient and listened to my mom. So i did not read it or see the movies. In high school my brother Jordan made me watch the third movie. I ended up enjoying it. I wanted to read the books. And we had to do a lot of convincing to get to let me read the books it did not work. My brother josh just bought me book 1 2 and 3 for Christmas. I read them all and loved them. If christens weren't so uptight and did not judge the book. They would realize that Harry Potter has great moral lessons in it. Moral lessons, Such as: bravery Tolerance, Loyalty, How to be a good friend. It has great moral lessons in it.
3) That's So Raven
Because she was physic and could see the future. Yes that show is unfunny and poorly written and acted. But I was a teen popper at the time who's favorite show was Lizzie McGuire so I did not care about things like that. I though people falling on their face fifty times in a row was the funniest things. Although I still was the weird kid who also liked to watch reruns of Seinfeld. This is a really weird combination. But I was 13 at the time, so watching stupid shows on the Disney channel was forgivable. This show was not offensive she did not have any other powers. She would have visions of the future make a goofy face. Than return to present time where she would tell her friends about the vision she had. The only people who knew about her powers beside her family. If the vision was bad she would come always come up with a plan to prevent it. Or if it was something good she would get high expectations about the vision and it would not work out that way. The worst part of the show is. The vision would always happen and the situation would always go wrong. She also never learned that you can’t meddle and change the future. Your vision is always going to come true. That was the formula to every episode. It was also god could raven be that stupid. Really Writers really show some respect for the characters you write. Also a thing I always tend to hate on Disney Channel Shows. Is that they portray the parents as being stupid. Do not get me wrong I can give my mom a hard time, but its out of love. We also have disagreements. But I still show respect. Because I am only 21 and while I am smart about something. I am also still young and have a lot to learn in life.
If parents want to ban their kids from watching the Disney channel do it because it teaches kids to be little brats. It shows a negative light on parents by making them look stupid. Not because it has someone with magic powers. Oh and speaking of That’s so Raven. Her Parents were the dumbest Television parents that I have ever seen. It made me want to cringe. That’s so Raven is also a terrible title for a show. But I am really ripping this show now. At that time I did like because I was teen popper and I liked mostly everything on the Disney channel especially Lizzie McGuire. My point is, even though it was a terribly written and acted show. It pagan values. It also had cheesy sugar coated life lessons in it.
4)Sabrina the Teenage witch and Bewitch (irony she let me watch morning reruns of i dream of Jeanie before school.)
Like my other posts. before i could not watch Sabrina because it was about a witch. Although unlike things on the Disney Chanel. When Sabrina was up to something stupid. Her aunts would sense it and not be stupid about it and tell her Sabrina no. Like how witches could not eat pancakes because they become addicted to it. Sabrina ate a pancake and became addicted to it. She did not listen to her aunts and something bad happened. Maybe because Sabrina lived with two of her aunts. Shows like Sabrina never had any evil storylines they were always really ridiculous. Like the pancakes one i talked about in this paragraph. It was never offensive.
5) The Black Cauldron
I do not know why she would not let me watch this movie my guess is it had to do with witchcraft. Like the pattern in the list of shows and movies i was not allowed to watch.
6) Anything involving Aliens i was not allowed to watch.
(i got away with a lot more because my brothers were good at being sneaky about movies by then. Also growing up they were teenagers. So they watched a lot of teen movies when i happened to be there. Sometime i would be told to go up stairs. But sometime i would just hang with them and watch the movie. )
7) I still have not seen the Titanic because Kate wins let was naked in the movie.
8) If you have read my brothers story we were not allowed to ET, the Goonies, The Dark Crystal, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Well one of my friends who lived down the street from me would watch that movie all the time. I was also not aware that my brothers weren't allowed to watch it. because i was probably a baby when it was out. But i would watch it all the time at my friends house. Also everything on Joshes list i have not seen except for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
There are more things that i was not allowed to watch. But its more interesting the things that i could watch growing up. Being the youngest out of a bunch of boys its crazy the things you can get aways with watching.
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