Bonus Blog 1 - Every Parent Should Share These Films With Their Kids!

So today an old school friend of mine - Debbie - posted on Facebook that she was watching the movie Short Circuit with her kids.  This inspired me to create a list that every parent should look at and take note of.  This list is going to be the movies that every child should watch at some point throughout their childhood and parents really should encourage them to do so.  Of course there is no particular order in which they should watch them but here's my choices.

Goonies;
Gremlins 1 and 2;
ET;
Indiana Jones 1, 2 and 3 - maybe 4 if you feel it hasn't ruined the franchise;
Back to the Future 1, 2 and 3;
Rain Man;
Who Framed Roger Rabbit;
Empire of the Sun;
Ghostbusters;
The Breakfast Club;
Ferris Bueller's Day Off;
Big;
Adventures in Babysitting;
Stand By Me;
Weird Science;
Uncle Buck;
Home Alone 1, 2, 3 and 4;
My Girl;
Last Action Hero;
Flipper;
The Karate Kid;
Flight of the Navigator;
Explorers;
Little Shop of Horrors;
Short Circuit 1 and 2;
Police Academy 1 - 7;
Neverending Story 1, 2 and 3;
Labyrinth;
Honey I Shrunk the Kids;
Little Monsters;
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure/Bogus Journey;
Willow;
Time Bandits;
Howard The Duck;
Miracle on 34th Street;
Of Mice and Men.

So there you have it, my full list of the films that every parent should encourage their kids to watch at some point in their childhood.  Of course, some of them are probably better suited to older kids so it may be best to wait for them to reach a certain age first, parental discretion is advised.  As you may have noticed, most of them are from the 1980's - truly thr greatest decade for both movies and music in my opinion.  It was the age of the family movie era and boy did they do a great job.  I may even have to go and watch all of them all over again - sounds like a plan eh?

Feel free to leave me some feedback and let me know if you think I should have included any others.

James!

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