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Hi! I really like your blog. It’s so inspiring to me, as I’m working to change our family’s spending habits. I will gladly add a prayer for your family to my own prayers today! But I just wanted to put in a word about something that’s important to me, related to this post: As a Christian mom of three, a Montessori teacher (professionally trained and worked in a classroom for two years before I started having babies), a former high school teacher, and now a college teacher and literature scholar…I want to say that you should be very, very careful about Disney products for your children. If you sit back and look at the model these movies provide for human social behavior, you will see a lot that you would not want your children to imitate. I know that children can benefit from conversation with their parents about what they see, but in fact children (especially under the age of 6) are vulnerable to what they see in ways that we cannot predict. Whatever they see human or human-like (animals who talk?) characters doing, children are strongly inclined to imitate. If you watch movies in which characters speak mockingly, trip or punch or push each other, scold and crab, complain, prance and primp, tell lies…you get the picture. Unfortunately, Disney has NO REGARD for children’s moral development. Add to this that Disney is a very aggressive marketer, often working with fast-food (very unhealthy, very unethical) to get their advertising products into children’s hands. Children’s imaginations are stunted by mass-marketed Princess and superhero gear. Parents are expected to protect their children, and unfortunately, we have to do abnormal, unconventional things sometimes, in order to protect our children well. I would say that this includes cutting out most TV and movies from our Christian households. I strongly suggest you cut out most Disney influences from your own life. You seem like such a smart, creative, energetic person, and your husband seems so sweet and involved in parenting and household life! It’s great! I hope you’ll make the most of it–and at least take my free advice into consideration. I just hate to see Disney being promoted by parents (…or promoted by children who are sometimes actually WEARING Disney advertisements on their clothes or PJ’s!). All best wishes for your great project of saving money and spreading your wisdom!