| For movies, check old Disney flicks like Blackbeard's Ghost, Absent Minded Professor (the original), etc. Or old Jerry Lewis films: The Nutty Professor, Cinderfella. Old Don Knotts movies: The Ghost and Mr. Chicken, The Reluctant Astronaut. Marx Brothers movies are also good for kids and adults. When my kids were younger we used to watch all these old movies -- they were the movies I saw on TV back in the 60s and 70s and I loved watching them again as an adult, and since my kids were young enough when I started them out on these, they weren't jaded by all the newer blockbuster high-tech special effects movies of today. As my kids got older, we began watching musicals, The King and I, Unsinkable Molly Brown, Fiddler on the Roof, etc. They love those! And we started to watch movies from the 40s and 50s. My kids balked at black & white movies at first, but after a while, they began to realize that some of those black and white movies were so much better than what is offered today. After a while, when we were deciding what movie to rent, my kids started saying, let's get a black & white movie! Check your local library for old movies, by the way. Here in Houston, you can get on line and select any movie in the library system and have it shipped to your local branch. They then notify you by email when your movie is ready to be picked up. And you keep it for two weeks. And it's free! Good for you for doing the family night with the kids. Keep it up -- your kids will appreciate the time you spend with them! |
