There's a special kind of sinking feeling you get as a parent when you realise you've made an error of judgment and either exposed your children to harm or exposed yourself as someone not living up to the values you espouse. My recent mini example was suggesting that, for our family movie night, we go old school and dig out Tom Hanks' Big. A bit gross in parts but harmless fun, right?
I suppose I should count it as a success that it was the kids who quietly suggested I turn it off for being inappropriate. Putting aside - if you can - the central premise that we're watching a 12-year-old boy in a man's body having a romantic encounter, it's two hours littered with casual sexism, glorification of consumerism, antediluvian business practices and, worst of all for my youngest, unabashed smoking in public places.
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