Banning movies part 1

My husband and I both teach children at church. I wouldn’t say I am teaching like my husband because I am not, he teaches the boys and girls who are should be between 10 and 13, although he has some kids in his class younger. My husband expects a lot of his kids, when he first started working with them I gave him some of my knowledge of children and he took that and worked with it. I told him that kids need consistency, and they need to know what is expected of them.
When I lead worship I have expectations of my children, and I am firm in what I believe those children should be giving me. My kids sometimes don’t want to participate and want to be distracting to others, so I figure out ways to deal with it. I know they like some of the action songs, so if they aren’t behaving in some of the not so actiony songs then I won’t do their favorite action song. This is is a way to handle them and teach them respect for those who want to do some of the other songs. I will let a child who doesn’t want to sing but wants to keep rhythm I encourage them to do that and find something for them to use. It is important to work with a kid where they are at and encourage some of their interested while teaching respect for one another.
Yesterday, my husband and I where sitting with a group of girls from his class, and they brought up a couple of movies. I kind of felt bad for one of the girls, because all the movies that the other girls where bring up she was not allowed to watch because her mom and dad felt it had witchcraft, and I am not talking about the movies from “Harry Potter” I am talking about things from Disney. I am talking movie like Beauty and the Beast.
Let me say, I don’t think that the parents are wrong for feeling the need to protect their child. I honestly don’t see any problems with Harry Potter, and many of the Disney movies, if Chronicles of Narnia series is okay. This to have witchcraft, and could be more dangerous to a believing child. It a movie that shows magic use on both sides in my opinion. I have watch Chronicles of Narnia, and Harry potter, yes there are differences in their story lines but you know they are pretty much the same thing.
Now I do have rules in the house for watching TV, and Movies or even going to the movie theater. If G-d name is being used lightly or being used with cussing, I walk out. My husband and I call it our 3 strike rule. A movie or TV program hits it 3 times it out of there. I believe sometimes we need to be more concerned of the language in the movie, and yes if they was showing how to use witchcraft correctly then those movies should black listed by us.
My husband and I recently got Direct TV, through our cable provide it is great. I am still learning a couple of channels to simply avoid, it nice that they are in my apartment and have some fiber optic cables providing services.
There are several places in the bible that warn us against practicing witchcraft, so I understand where the parents are coming from but not all Disney shows do that, I will say Harry Potter walks a fence of it, but I think there some lessons in that movie about survival and sometimes about doing the right things even if you don’t want to. Now I will say if you are raising your child as a believer, and they watch Harry Potter and want to be just like him, it would probably be wise to discourage him or her.