Our daughter loves vampires. What should we do?
I think the clear view from attachment parenting is to support the interest as long as it is not harmful. We all have things we are interested in, be they reality or not. Our 13 year old is not trying to be a vampire, or hurt anyone, she just seems to like the idea of them. I have to say when it comes to TV and movies I like the dark ones too and always have.
We don’t try to get adults who love the show The Walking Dead to stop watching it just because it is rather gross and morbid. We don’t fear them turning into zombies or zombie hunters right?
So with this thinking, we allow our daughter to read about vampires and watching vampire movies that are not rated R. (yet)
The Movie Warm Bodies
I took our daughter and some of her friends to the movies to watch the last twilight movie. One of the previews was about a movie called Warm Bodies. My daughter made it very clear that she really wanted to see it. It looked like a dumb comedy to me so I choose to go with the parenting tool of “your turn” and as such, my husband took her to see it. He didn’t expect much from it. To my shock, both of them came home from the movie loving it. My husband is not into dumb comedy either for the most part so knowing he liked it, now I am going to have to see it when it comes out on video. My daughter wants the movie for her collection so I am betting I will end up seeing it more than a few times.
I am not sure what vampire movie or book or item we might next have to deal with. I remind myself over and over to look at things through the eyes of my children. This way I end up liking them a bit more I think. Though there is no redemption for Veggie Tales in my world. LOL
