Femme Power

I’m a little bit under the weather. It’s one of those days when all I want is to stay home and watch films. Not that I have a lot of choices though. Since I started taking real charge of the household sans the benefit of a maid or a nanny, I barely have a few choices other than doing chores and running errands, dozing off or pigging out, reading or blogging.

For the nth time, my daughter and I watched our favorite flicks today: High School Musical I, Nanny McPhee and Finding Nemo, among others.

We both enjoyed the bite-sized punchy lines in Finding Nemo that are the types that would stick to your mind for a long time. Most probably you’ve seen this movie too (Who hasn’t?) but still, let me share with you a few of the many lines I love in the flick:

• “You think you could do these things but you can’t, Nemo!” says Marlin (Nemo’s father) to Nemo and mistakenly to Dory too.

• “All drains lead to the ocean.” Now that’s an additional realization for me.

• “When I’m with you, I remember…I’m home,” says Dory to Marlin.

The flick is amazingly packed with moral lessons primarily on trust, letting go, friendship, positive attitude, confidence in other people’s abilities, courage and love that surmounts anything that gets in the way. Makes me wonder if I am a “Marlin” type of a parent (Nemo’s over-protective dad) or a “Crush” type (the 150 year-old sea turtle who lets his kid learn his way through life).

It took me pains to admit that I’ve been a “Marlin” to my own kid for some time. And just like in the movie, I know that it’s not gonna do any good to the child.

I understand why some parents, like Marlin or anybody else like me, couldn’t help but put a protective fence around their children. But too much of it would actually devoid them of their right to enjoy life, if not live it.

It was getting dark when I decided to give our eyes some rest from the boob tube. It’s been a lazy day, alright. But with the bonding time I had with my daughter and the lessons we both learned from watching those films, I’d say this wouldn’t be the last time.

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