How to Train a Dragon OhAmanda Ep 31

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Kids & Family, Leisure, Parenting, Education

5 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2014

⏱️ 33 minutes

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As you heard on my last podcast with OhAmanda (Amanda White), she and I love movies. We also LOVE to use movies to help talk to our children about God.

On today’s podcast, she and I chat about the newly released, “How to Train a Dragon 2”. We answer the question, “Is it okay for my kids to see?” We let you know what we did not like in this flick.

We also share what we loved. For those of you who’ve already seen it, we discuss our favorite overriding themes and conversations you can have with your kids. A few examples:

Stoick, Hiccup’s dad–his role as a protector and his unfailing, redeeming love for Hiccup’s mom.
Drago’s tragedy turned angry aggression–how bad things happen, but if we go to God for healing and restoration, it can be used for good. But in Drago’s case, “Hurt people hurt people”.
Dragon training as an analogy of parenting styles–harsh/domineering vs. gentle/caring. And the loyalty which results from one over the other.
Toothless’ challenge to tune out the alpha dragon and trust Hiccup–when temptations come we need to often close our eyes, cover our ears and trust God to deliver us, overcoming evil.

At the end of the week Amanda will be posting her discussion guide and possibly a link-up where you can add your own family movie guide. Choose a film you’ve enjoyed watching as a family and type up some ideas for discussion topics/questions stemming from the movie.

Show Notes:

OhAmanda.com
IMDb Film summary
The one line in the film that caused controversy–plugged in
Susanna Wesley’s separation from her husband over politics (for 5 months, not a year like I mentioned in the podcast).

Join the Family Movie Mom discussion.

What themes, questions, and/or conversations did you come up with after seeing this film?

Transcript

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0:00.0	You're listening to the God-centered mom podcast with me, Heather McFadden.
0:06.8	As the mom to four young boys, I know mother is hard, but sometimes I think I make it even
0:12.2	harder than it needs to be.
0:14.1	I'll worry about my needs being met or all, spend so much energy trying to make my boys
0:19.2	happy that I forget that if I would take my eyes off me and my eyes off my kids and keep
0:24.2	my eyes on God, that those desires would grow strangely dim and their contentment would
0:29.5	go up as I'm led by his spirit.
0:31.6	I also forget that I'm surrounded by God.
0:34.4	He is going before me and places that I'm fearful of.
0:38.3	He is walking with me on the hard days and he's coming behind me, redeeming any mistake
0:43.3	I may.
0:44.5	So each week, I'll interview a new guest and we'll discuss what it means to be a God-centered
0:49.3	mom.
0:50.3	Thanks for listening.
0:54.8	You're listening to episode 31 of the God-centered mom podcast and today I'm continuing
1:01.7	my series with O Amanda, this monthly feature we're hoping to do, where we chat about movies.
1:09.3	Family movie moms is what I think we're calling it and today we're chatting about the new
1:14.1	release, How to Train a Dragon 2.
1:17.4	We give our thoughts on, is it appropriate for your kids to see, water some caveats,
1:22.6	some things we didn't love about the movie, some great discussion questions and topics
1:27.3	to talk about with your family and what we really loved about the movie.
1:32.2	So here we go.
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