|
From an answer to a listeners question on the August 10, 2002 radio show How can I keep my nine year old daughter from hanging out with a bad crowd?)
"...you can offer her a diet of better art, and by `art' I mean the books she reads and the movies she sees. It's not inspiring to be introduced to crappy art - I don't have any other words to describe this - books like Catcher in the Rye, or maybe an awfull movie like Ferris Bulher's Day Off.
"If in school she's introduced to such literature or to art that is destructive, nhilistic, like Picasso's paintings where eyes and faces are all chopped up, it presents a very confusing view of the world. Try to counteract that stuff by giving her better art; Nancy Drew, Harry Potter series, the Box Car Kids, books about the childhood lives of famous Americans, O. Henry stories,good movies. You could show her the story of Helen Keller. One of my favorites is back to the future Part one, where you see how the father's choices in that movie make such a difference in his long range happiness and his whole family's happiness. ..."
For more good movies see the list on this page
|
