Many millennial parents, like myself, try to parent differently from previous generations. We like to focus on positive and authoritative parenting instead of the authoritarian or neglectful styles many of us dealt with growing up. Instead of barking orders, we try to reason with our kids and teach them logic. It’s not perfect, but we try.
We like hanging out with our kids (not constantly, we are human) and sharing feelings. So of course we want to share beloved things from our childhoods with our children. If we loved it, then they will too, right? Sometimes that is true. Superheroes and dinosaurs seem to be pretty universal. However, there is a huge generational divide with it comes to movies. After showing my kids several of my favorite movies from the 80s and 90s, I learned that we used to watch some pretty disturbing stuff. I still love these movies, yet I have found that our kids think they are borderline traumatic.