Family Values?

We belong to Netflix and we rented Adamm's Family Values for the kids.
BIG mistake! They were traumatized and I admit I was a little annoyed.
I mean come on people! It's the Adamm's Family! *hear music*
"Well", says S, "we weren't raised like that Mom."
Um, What does that mean? I'm the one raising you! I am not some wayward Aunt that came along and exposed you to some horrific secular thing.
"But Mom, they fed the baby Vodka!"
Yeah, and?
And they dropped the baby out the window and dropped and anvil out after!"
So, what's your point?
Ok, so Lauren's new favorite line is now, (deadpan) "So I've decided to scalp you and burn your village to the ground." I thought it was funny.
After WAY too long a discussion on this and after putting away my defensiveness about this stupid, albeit totally harmless, movie, I realize they haven't been raised that way, it is true.
MY lens of experience is not THEIRS. Duh. They didn't grow up with the sitcom Adamm's Family like I did. Or watching things I NEVER should have been allowed to see. My gauge is broken if using my upbringing as my compass, I must always rely on the Lord to be my compass or I shall fail!
They just could not see the idea of the "monsters" being the good guys.
Hope I haven't scarred them for life.
These are kids who lived on Lord of the Rings! Now that's scary!
But a little hand running around and Uncle Fester???
The truth is we have followed scripture pretty closely about only letting lovely things into the eyes and thereby into the mind and heart.
Images do stay there forever mind you. We prayed about it and I said I was sorry and to come and get us the next time their spirit convicted them of something I allowed them to watch. (We were upstairs watching our own Movie: "How to Ruin Your Kids in One Fail Swoop")