I need to more diligently enforce my parental authoritah and just say no to bad ideas. Daughter wanted to watch Frankenweenie before bed. Neither of us had yet seen the movie, but my maternal gut was trying to engage by brain in a dialogue something like this: "Are you 'tarded? This is, in fact, a bad idea." Yet I gave into peer group pressure and watched the film with my 10 year old.

The movie is cute as a button, deeply touching and fun to point out cultural references in, but it's not ideal viewing for a sensitive child who's currently struggling with accepting that her elderly kitty is in fact not immortal.

# too much therapy