Great Family Movie!

If you know me you know that I am not a fan of little children watching TV. Yes, I am going to step atop my soapbox for a moment. With my background in early childhood and all the research I have read and heard over the last few years I've never found anything that supports or has found the benefits of children under 2 watching TV. Personally, I would rather be playing with Joshua or reading to him than having him watch some junk (which is mostly whats on)on TV. Joshua didn't even have an interest in the TV until a couple months before he turned 2, which was fine with me. Of course even then he would only watch 5 or 10 minutes and this still rings true most of the time, although he has a few rare times once in a while when he will watch for 20 or 30 minutes. However TV watching for Joshua is not even close to a daily activity.
All this being said, I put the movie Charlotte's Web on our list on Netflix movies - I wanted to see it and thought maybe Joshua would enjoy it too. So, today it came in the mail and I told Joshua we could watch it tonight as a special treat. He did his share of walking around during the movie, but actually watched the entire movie. It was such a great movie! Unlike many of the Disney movies out there there was no violence or aggression to avert his eyes from or fast forward through. It was just good ol' clean fun! There is even some adult humor thrown in there for the parents watching. I'm sure by now almost every one with a child has seen this movie, but if you haven't be sure to check it out.