At Random - 3 Movies Me & My Son Watched 1 Wkend

Last weekend for the Martin Luther King Jr. three day holiday I decided to sit down with my 10 year old son Saturday, Sunday and Monday to watch three important movies.

The 1st one was called "I Am" by Tom Shadyac. It was about the nature of mankind and what we could do to shape the future in a balanced, positive way.

This was Saturday mornings viewing. So while my son ate his breakfast we sat and watched this.

Sunday morning, before football we watched "Hidden Colors" by Tariq Nasheed, about the positive influences and history of African peoples in Europe, Asia and the Americas, and how this knowledge has been largely untold and kicked under the carpet in Western education and culture.

Monday's viewing happened in the afternoon. My beloved Steelers had lost the weekend before, and my Saints had lost Saturday, but I was happy that my hometown team - the Giants - whooped up on the Green Bay Packers; but this had taken a toll on me, so when I started watching this slow moving movie with my son, Ghabe. I was feeling sleepy, so I napped while he stayed up and did his homework and watched this.

I woke up an hour and a half later to find him rewinding a few parts of the film. When he realized I was awake, he called out to me - "Daddy come here, watch this part." Many of them were the most dramatic scenes of the movie. He asked questions after seeing all three, but this one he related to in a way that he hadn't with the other two.

All in all, I'm glad I let him watch them and in a few years I'll get these movies again to see if he enjoys and learns even more from them.