This post is a roundup of what I thought about the best of those, plus our family favorites. I spent the month of November (that’s BEFORE Advent, so it’s okay □) previewing Christmas movies on various streaming platforms in the hopes of adding some new movies to our rotation. And that’s especially true for us at Christmas time. But in our family, the main goal of movie-watching is family togetherness. We will sometimes watch a shorter kids’ movie as a whole family, then put little kids to bed, then watch something a bit edgier with just the older kids. ![]() As a general rule-at any time of the year-I avoid letting my kids watch kid movies that are so insipid that I couldn’t sit through them, and the grown ups in our family avoid movies that are so racy or violent that we wouldn’t want our teens to see them. It gives us shared experiences and common points of reference and inside jokes. I think it’s been a really important part of establishing our family culture to watch movies together as a family. I’ve written about family movie nights before, see that post here. This year the Christmas Season is actually sixteen days long, from Christmas Day through the Baptism of the Lord, but we might peter out before then. Then, once Christmas comes, we watch a different family Christmas movie together for each of the “twelve days of Christmas.” We certainly won’t get to all of these movies in any one year, but these are the ones from which we’ll choose. In our quest to give Advent and Christmas distinctly different characters, we have a strict family policy of not watching Christmas movies during Advent.
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