Two weeks ago we went to our first ever Bugs Bunny Club at the Augusta Theatre. G and Little Missy loved it. When the police were on stage, riling up the kids and getting them excited for the movie and prizes, Little Missy was jumping and raising her hands and yelling, even though she had no idea what was going on. It was pretty cute.
Tomorrow is another Club day. Hooray! But they’re showing Open Season. It’s about hunting, right? We’ve talked with the kids about how hamburger comes from cows and chicken comes from chickens – they are not two separate entities who happen to share the same name – but I’m not sure if I want my kids to see the hunters going after the animals. Not that I’m against hunting. I’m a meat-eater, and even though I couldn’t personally wash my clothes in soap that smells like deer, wash my body with deer-scented soap, sit in a deer stand for hours on end in freezing weather, spy a beautiful deer sweetly minding its own business and then shoot it dead, I don’t want the hunters portrayed in a bad light. So see my problem? I don’t want the animals to get shot or the hunters to appear like bad men.
But Hubby is off work tomorrow, it’s the second-to-last Bugs Bunny Club of the season, so we might need to go and deal with lots and lots of questions about hunting after the movie. I mean, for $.25 a person, I can probably deal with lots of questions.
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When questions arise…tell the kiddos, that fun-loving Uncle Shawn is a hunter..the Uncle Shawn that helps kiddos in and out of the tree house, the Uncle Shawn that rides horsies with Mia, the Uncle Shawn that will wrestle around with kids until..well forever. Now how could Uncle Shawn be a deranged hunter while a wonderful uncle??!!
What is this? Can we come next week?