[mommy22]

While I imagine most of you don't have little girls who might want to see this, it was actually a very good movie that I took my daughters to see.
The theme is a girl who is living through the Great Depression, set in 1934 in Cincinnatti, Ohio.
It was NOT a cheery kids movie, as most are. It dealt with home and business forclosures, families torn apart by fathers going away to look for work, going from upper middle class to poverty in one fell swoop, hobos, steps the families took to get by, and the many societal pressures that families faced back then. A painful scene was when the girl was volunteering at the local soup kitchen with her classmates, and her father walked in for lunch.
My 74 year old aunt came with us, and she regaled us with stories about hobos coming to their house for food up until the mid 50s. Although she can't remember the Depresion, she remembered well gardening and canning and taking trains everywhere, and getting by with far less than today's kids have.
The movie prompted some good discussion about what's going on today, with forclosures. In the movie, some kids just stopped coming to school after their homes were forclosed upon...and how the children at school were kind of mystified by it. I told my daughter that if something like that happens, that maybe something similar could happen today to someone in her school, too.
A good teaching tool for children, and I actually enjoyed it, too.

[Ferretlover]

Mommy22, this might be something to discuss in the Peak Parenting Thread, too. Sounds like another good way to introduce the future to kids.

[BigTex]

My wife took our daughter to see it and when I heard what it was about I wished I had gone.

[mommy22]

Excuse my ignorance, but where can I find the Peak Parenting Thread? I looked for something like that but couldn't find it!

[Ferretlover]

It's in the PDTF forum: http://peakoil.com/fortopic12648.html+parenting

[mgibbons19]

My eldest has read some of the Kit books and was really looking forward to the film. They all went to see it without me. Now I want to see it even more.