I learned in church today

[Pelado]

Some of the inspirational movies we watched in YM:

Dr. Strangelove
The Producers (with Gene Wilder)
So I Married an Axe Murderer

You're welcome.

[UtahDan]

I thought about starting a new thread for this, but since I want to keep my NTS low, I will give it a shot here: I learned in church today I need to choose an inspirational movie to watch for our combined activity this coming Tuesday night. So, if anybody has some good suggestions for inspirational movies, I'd love to hear them. Preferably no R rated shows. I'd like to avoid PG-13 as well, but if you know a really good one, I think the Obispo would be fine with that.

TIA!

Goonies.

[Donuthole]

Thanks Cardiac. Donut, not so much. The other part of this is that I'd like to find one that may not be quite as well known so most of the people there will be seeing it for the first time.

I guarantee most of the kids have never even heard of Iron Will, let alone seen it. Plus, it's a period piece, so even though it's 15 years old, it holds up well.

[smokymountainrain]

I guarantee most of the kids have never even heard of Iron Will, let alone seen it. Plus, it's a period piece, so even though it's 15 years old, it holds up well.

so you were serious. my apologies. I always wonder about those older shows - if they've seen them on TV at some point. But you may be right about most of them not having seen it.

[smokymountainrain]

I hope I'm not killing this, one of my favorite CUF threads, with this mini-threadjack, but what the consensus on Stand and Deliver? It's been a while since I've seen it.

[The_Douger]

I think it's a pretty good movie.

[Donuthole]

so you were serious. my apologies. I always wonder about those older shows - if they've seen them on TV at some point. But you may be right about most of them not having seen it.

I'm only 50% serious. I think it's a pretty entertaining movie, and certainly clean enough, but it is definitely a bit campy.

[FN Phat]

Glory. Field of Dreams. Shawshank Redemption.

[Green Monstah]

This discussion made me laugh. Last week in ward council the bishop asked what we could do about our reverence problem. I immediately knew what was up--his first counselor is hard core, mullah with elderly family in the ward. We're a new ward with tons of young kids. Our ward has that wonderful buzz that young, large wards often have. The first counselor and his family offended a lot of young parents in previous wards, contributing in part to two families going inactive. I decided to nip things in the bud.

First I said, "Do we really have a reverance problem or just a few elderly folks who complain? Like putty in my hands, the first counselor pipes up that we ha e a "serious" reverance problem. I respond, "we have to be sure that the benefit of whatever measures we take far outweigh the consequences. I think we really ha e two options--either provide parents with duct tape for their kids' mouths or buy a few old folks some ear plugs. Otherwise we've got to understand our wards demographics and go with the flow." bishop dropped the issue.

[sparky]

Cool Runnings. Maybe will show them how Jamaican olympians used to be likeable.

Eta: lest I get pulled over by the unfair generalization police, I'm talking about that one guy

[Non Sequitur]

Every ahole and person over 68 complains.

I fly more than the average and have never been on a flight where I thought, shut that damn baby up, it's hurting my ears!

Just because you don't complain, doesn't mean you're not an asshole.

[Omaha 680]

I thought about starting a new thread for this, but since I want to keep my NTS low, I will give it a shot here: I learned in church today I need to choose an inspirational movie to watch for our combined activity this coming Tuesday night. So, if anybody has some good suggestions for inspirational movies, I'd love to hear them. Preferably no R rated shows. I'd like to avoid PG-13 as well, but if you know a really good one, I think the Obispo would be fine with that.

TIA!

Apollo 13 and Gettysburg are two of my favorite movies that fit the content you are looking for...although Gettysburg is really long.

[mtnbiker]

Maybe we need and "I was an asshole in Church today" thread.

Seriously though, I think the answer to this is in the middle somewhere. I get Tim's point, but as a parent I also realize it's not quite as cut and dry as some make it sound. I will say this though, kids CAN be taught to be reverent in Sacrament meeting, at a very young age. I've done it 4 times.

It is inevitable that little kids will be noisy, cry, etc. in Sacrament meeting. The more clueless parents just ignore it to others' detriment. The standard MO though seems to be to take the kid out, let them run in the halls or run around in the foyer, etc. This of course teaches the kid that they can cry in Sacrament meeting and get to go play. Duh.

Here is what we did with all 4 of ours.

1. Bring age-appropriate, quiet toys / activities to church.
2. If they cry or are loud, give them a warning.
3. If they don't stop, they go to the foyer with Dad.
4. In the foyer, they have to sit on Dad's lap with their arm's folded for the rest of the meeting.

It doesn't take long for them to figure out that the foyer is much more miserable than quietly coloring, looking at a book, etc. in the chapel will be.

Obviously I'm not talking about infants. And my sample size is 4 (girls at that) so I'm not saying this will work for every kid. But the point is, an awful lot of parents do just the opposite and get the expected results.

I agree with this 4-step process, although my 4th step was me holding the child in my arms while we walked the halls. We also tried to have quiet toys that the kids only saw at church, so they weren't already bored with them. My sample size is 5, 3 boys and 2 girls. Still, every child is different, and as has been mentioned, you have to make tweaks for each.

In the past few years, we have also helped a couple of single moms keep their kids under control. We offer to save them spots so the kids get familiar with us, and before long the kids come to us on their own. It was pretty cool last week when the two kids we currently help with, a girl and a boy, came running up to me after church and gave me a big hug. That was after the girl had refused to go to primary and the mom ended up leaving her with me during Sunday School because she needed to help the boy give a talk. After she settled down, the girl had me walk her to primary, and she was fine after that.

Rather than get upset with noisy kids around us, we'll often ask if we can help. Either the parents say yes (and we get some diversions during the meeting), or it spurs them to action. Wins all around, in my opinion, and the parents and kids have better experiences than they would otherwise have.

[mtnbiker]

I thought about starting a new thread for this, but since I want to keep my NTS low, I will give it a shot here: I learned in church today I need to choose an inspirational movie to watch for our combined activity this coming Tuesday night. So, if anybody has some good suggestions for inspirational movies, I'd love to hear them. Preferably no R rated shows. I'd like to avoid PG-13 as well, but if you know a really good one, I think the Obispo would be fine with that.

TIA!

Not sure how inspirational it is, but how about Brian's Song? The boys would love the football action, and the girls, if they can get past that part, would love the interaction between Sonny Corleone Brian Piccolo and Lando Calrissian Gale Sayers, especially as they help each other through knee injuries and cancer.

[Non Sequitur]

I thought about starting a new thread for this, but since I want to keep my NTS low, I will give it a shot here: I learned in church today I need to choose an inspirational movie to watch for our combined activity this coming Tuesday night. So, if anybody has some good suggestions for inspirational movies, I'd love to hear them. Preferably no R rated shows. I'd like to avoid PG-13 as well, but if you know a really good one, I think the Obispo would be fine with that.

TIA!

When my kids were little they liked Edward Scissorhands. I don't think they had any idea what it was about, but I do think it was visually interesting