poeticdiabetic
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Jul 10, 2007
Kids are kids. You never picked up a stick when you were a kid and pretended it was a lightsaber? Picked up a piece of rope and went on adventures as Indiana Jones?
There is nothing wrong with being immersed in a world that you are passionate about. If it becomes too serious and that's all the kids focus on and other things start to falter, then it can be a problem. But kids have the best imagination capabilites in the world. Let them use it.
Besides that, I do give you much credit OP. At first I was afraid you were another person who viewed Harry Potter as an symbol of the occult and other rubbish.
I've met people who are so adamant against Harry Potter they avoid Universal Studios like the plague. They consider the Universal creative department to be Satanists because they placed one of the most beloved series in the world in a theme park for people to experience and enjoy. (Of course these are also the people who boycott Disney because of "Gay Days".)
But pardon me for my ranting.
I'm glad you enjoyed it, I really am. Maybe one day it'll be a catalyst to pick-up that first book and see why we all love the series so much.
(And as for Hogwarts having stained glass, that is a refference to the third movie, The Prisoner of Azkaban. The history of Hogwarts does mention it has been around for thousands of years, but the castle is updated every hundred years or so. )
Thanks. It was a great time.
As far as how I raise my kids, I think that we have done a great job so far, and their imagination have been adequately utilized, believe me. They pretended to be all sorts of things, but as parents; playing witches, warlocks and wizards gave us enough pause to not consider Harry Potter until they were older and knew that all that witchcraft stuff was rubbish.
Now that they're older, they can read Harry Potter and watch the movies.