Movie: Charlie Brown Christmas

My husband and I intend to severely limit the amount of 'digital time' our kids get. We have no intention of having access to cable TV, so that will help. Since so many studies show that watching the TV is not good for younger children, we intend to hold off until our oldest is around 5 or so. Of course, between visiting babysitters who will have a video going to occassionally needing a break ourselves, I doubt our kids will be completely TV-free. Still, we'll start out with good intentions and see how well they hold up over the long haul.

But, once our kids are old enough, I would like to create a weekly movie night. I think time spent as a family this way could be great fun, as long as we do it together and then spend some time talking about the movie afterwards. 


One of the first movies I intend to introduce our kids to is the Charlie Brown Christmas. It's only 30 minutes and almost completely lacking in anything remotely scary. Perfect for a young kid!




Our kids at this point, would be too young to have much deep discussion on the ideas of Christmas and commercialism. But I do think that a gentle reminder of things like what the true meaning of Christmas is (It's Jesus' birthday!) would be appropriate.

• Do you know what Christmas is?
• Do you remember who's birthday is on Christmas?
• Can you tell me the story of Baby Jesus?

I also think we'll do an art project this same week where we make a paper chain and decorate a bush with it, the sadder the bush the better!