Frozen in time

Generally speaking we never turn the TV on. We read, work with our imagination, play outside, get dirty! There is the occasional TV watching at his grandma's house that I am totally for, because what happens at omah's stays at omah's and the Ipad cartoon, say once a week, when we hit the very last resort.

So, shocker, that this mama decided to spend a rainy afternoon taking Tristan to his first movie show to watch Frozen. I am not sure what he saw in it...  but here is what I saw. 

Not surprisingly Disney is still frozen in time! 

While the story does elucidate on some "new" concepts such as love at first sight is bs and sisters' love can be stronger then romantic love, and family is whoever welcomes you (rocks animals or people), Disney is still making the same old mistakes:

- I saw ONE person of color in the entire movie

- Girls never wear pants, even when they ride horses and climb mountains

-  Little girls look quite proportionate but average BMI is no longer respected once they hit puberty, their waist is still the same size as when they were 5, their legs are incredibly long and skinny and their eyes and boobs don't give out the same famished look as the rest of their body does.

- Whether that is the happy ending or not girls still search for a husband, unless they are cursed. 

- Mommy and Daddy still have to die to create a good plot, WHY??!?

- Love is either between family members or between a man and woman, enough already!

So I wonder... what is Tristan learning from this? One viewing, probably nothing, other than a big WOW effect and that buttered pop-corns are delicious! 

But I think I'd like to be able to reason with him and ask questions to which he can answer while and after we sit and watch something else. I am afraid of TV for little people who are not yet verbal enough to tell you how they feel and what they think about they see. 

I woke up at every little noise last night expecting him to have bad dreams about the evil snow man or the people trying to kill the queen. He slept soundly but I am going to wait a long time before introducing him to 2 hours of this again.