It often becomes difficult to make time for yourself as a parent, but having self-time is a need and is always recommended. I am sure the pandemic has bought a lot of changes in your life and you’ve been running about since then. But is it all? you need to relax and calm down and we’ve got you the right way to do that, movies.
Let’s face it, sitting down to see a children’s film isn’t always exciting. The good news is that certain films are designed specifically for parents, with sympathetic adult characters, complex plotlines, and nuanced humor.
Here are ten of the best movies for you to watch with your children.
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Life as We Know it
When their mutual best friends die in an accident, two single people become carers for an orphaned girl.
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Honey I shrunk the kids
Those of you who grew up watching it will enjoy seeing it through the eyes of a parent. The film plays with parental concern by telling the narrative of an inventor who, as the title suggests, mistakenly shrinks his children to the size of insects. Rick Moranis, the dependable sidekick and wacky father from a slew of 1980s and 1990s family pictures, also appears.
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Up all night
Takes a sardonic look at parenthood from the perspective of an abrasive professional woman, her stay-at-home husband, and her opinionated parents.
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Joy of fatherhood
Felix is enjoying his single life to the fullest when he is bitten by a ferret, which sterilises him. He does everything he can to discover the mother of his sole child, the consequence of his first and only sperm donation.
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Away we go
A couple expecting their first child travels throughout the United States in search of the ideal location to establish their family. They have misadventures along the road and make new connections with a variety of relatives and old acquaintances who may be able to help them identify “home” for the first time on their own terms.
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Bridget jones baby
Bridget, now forty-something and single, resolves to concentrate on her work and surround herself with friends. In an unexpected turn of events, she becomes pregnant, but there’s a catch: she can only be fifty percent certain of the identity of her baby’s father.
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Declaration of war
Roméo and Juliette unite in the struggle for their young son’s survival when he is diagnosed with a brain tumor.
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Togetherness
Follows two couples who share a home and try to maintain their relationships while pursuing their respective goals.
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Life in pieces
A family comedy is recounted through the stories of various members of the family.
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Parenthood
The Braverman family tree’s lives and tragedies.