When you were a kid did you ever watch a Disney movie and think, ‘Man, this is so inappropriate and violent! I shouldn’t be watching this.’

I didn’t either.  But Addison is in love with all things Disney and Pixar.  Our DVD drawer has slowly mutated from Thomas Crowne Affair and Rounders to Snow White and Monsters, Inc.  I’m not gonna lie, I was pumped when she showed an interest in all the movies I loved in my childhood.  I thought of all the great music from Cinderella, Little Mermaid (and every other animated Disney feature known to man) and how I still know every word.  How could those not be good movies for my daughter to watch?

Well, here is my opinion after watching them all, numerous times, with my own child:  I can’t believe I let my sweet little girl watch these movies.  Snow White’s stepmother wants the huntsman to kill the poor girl and bring her heart back in a box, Sleeping Beauty is supposed to die by poisoning, Simba watches as his father is brutally murdered and then a hit is put out on him and Aladdin faces death by torture and swords all day every day.  The Little Mermaid is a promiscuous little thing that is encouraged by the sea witch that she doesn’t need a voice or opinions because all she needs is her body to land a man.  And on top of that her father marries her off to a man neither of them really know when she is sixteen, 16! And have you ever seen the animation of Ursula’s body in that movie? Boobs bouncin’ everywhere, I tell ya.

It is my most sincere hope that Addie remembers the high points about these movies and not the death, violence and sex.  She already knows all the songs (you should hear her sing a score from the Little Mermaid, its awesome) let’s hope she doesn’t follow in any of the Princesses’ footsteps.