Just One More Thing

I had an interesting conversation with my eight year daughter tonight regarding the Golden Compass. She came home from school with the latest edition of the Scholastic Book Club brochure and was eager to start circling her picks for books for Christmas. I noticed her circling the Golden Compass and I decided to let her know that she was not going to get that book and that we would not be seeing the movie together. I got the puzzeled look and the 'why' that I expected from her so I dived in with answers. My daughter is a very concrete and logical thinker so that is how I tackled her question. My saying that the author was unfriendly toward Christians and that by the third book the characters had killed God was not enough for her. We went to Snopes.com and read through, together, what information that site had on the author and the books. She was sad to realize that someone would intentionally write a book to make kids, as the author says, decide against God and Heaven. I explained to her that kids who see this movie or read these books and don't grow up in a good church or Christian home may have a hard time later on believing in God. My daughter summed it best when she said, "So if I tell my friend about Jesus and God and they think that God is what this book and movie say he is they might not believe me?" Don't miss an opportunity to talk with your kids.