Proverbs 4:23

23             Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.

Having a family with 2 small kids (soon to be 3) it is very important to me that the content of what media we consume is not only age appropriate for my children but also edifying as well. There are plenty of shows that have an age appropriate rating that seems to be satisfactory but do not have the kind of message or spirit that we want our family to take in.

I’d like to offer a few websites that we use to help evaluate movies. I’m recommending kids-in-mind.com and movieguide.org. They are great resources to evaluate the content of films before u see them.

Kids In Mind does not review the quality of the film simply the content.Here is the kids-in-mind rating explanation. It has a 3 number rating. The first number is for sex and nudity, the second is violence and gore, the third is profanity. For instance the recent Justin Beiber movie received a 2.1.1. As you can see pretty safe.

Movieguide has similar ratings but also reviews the quality from a filmmaking AND Christian worldview (separate …

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