Tommy and Joel thought it would be boring. It had singing and dancing and a lady with an umbrella.
Guess who loved Mary Poppins? Guess who debates if supercalifragilisticexpealidocious is in the dictionary? Guess who thinks the life of a chimney sweep must be lucky as lucky can be?
I bribed my children to get them to watch a classic and do not regret having to take such drastic measures. Shoot me with Admiral Boom’s cannon, I don’t care. I knew they’d like it, but I couldn’t force them to watch the movie. It was important to me they saw it in their early-enough childhood. A five-year-old who has Feed the Birds tumbling around in his heart is a good thing and a joy forever.
I had to appeal to their empty pockets. Jingle jangle, life’s a little more rich.
Tuppence a bag.
Good call mom. It’s a classic.
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One of my favorites. You should have given them a spoonful of sugar and saved for you quarters.
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I made Sage listen to the cd. Next is the movie. 50 cents seems a low price to pay!
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50 cents is a low, low price.
My kids don’t get movies very much, so I can put on pretty much anything right now and they still think it’s a treat.
You can see it dawning in my oldest, however, that some things we watch are for me. Uh oh.
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Inspired by this post, I went to see if I cold watch Mary Poppins by instant download on Netflix. Alas, no. A trip to the actual factual video store may be in order.
Movies I would bribe my daughter to watch, if I ever had to:
Charlotte’s Web (the old version, NOT the Dakota Fanning monstrosity)
Labyrinth
The Princess Bride
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I would do the same (and might!)
We’ve been watching Leave it to Beaver evey night together as a family. I love it.
Steph
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Steph—I ADORE Leave it Beaver, especially the episodes when Beaver is little. We watched a marathon one afternoon and the boys loved it—especially the one with the go-cart when Beaver gets the ticket and Wally goes to court with him. And the one with the chihuahua. Oh, and Beaver in the soup bowl. And when Beaver lost the haircut money and cut his own hair…
They are the best.
Funny! What a good idea…paying them to watch it! I think I’ll try that with my teenage daughter and a few books that I want her to read. She doesn’t want to read some of the old faves that I read when I was young because she says they’ll be boring. But I know she’ll like them. Hmmmmmm. A little money for mall shopping ought to do it! 🙂
Tuppence for kids to watch the movie. 😀
We got the boys to watch it, though it wasn’t a battle.
It’s tangible encouragement and very worthwhile.
Next try Chitty-chitty Bang-bang? My twelve-year-old loves that. And we discovered to my shock that National Velvet was a big hit too.