Our TR Family is huge into sci-fi. We have robots and Transformers everywhere in the house. We have dozens of spaceships and astronauts or aliens to fly them. We have whole bookshelves devoted to Sci-Fi. We have dozens of sci-fi comics to read.
And naturally, we have lots of Star Wars stuff from the TIE fighter specs hanging in the dining room, to the stormtrooper head mug that holds our garlic. And then there are the cards, action figures- you name it.
But we have held off introducing our youngest kiddo to the StarWars movies due to their violent nature. We don’t allow gunplay in the house, and we review all TV shows and movies for intense violence. As much fun as StarWars is, we all know it is rife with gunplay, explosions and death scenes.
We’re not sure our Bluebird is ready for that, just yet.
We’re beginning him with the Star Wars Radio Drama on tape. Bluey loves cassette tapes, and the radio show has all the action and drama of Star Wars without the visuals. We like that he can learn the story first, and see it later. We like that he can imagine his own visuals to go along with the story he’s hearing. Bluey’s already well acquainted with the plot of the movie now. When he sees it for the first time, he’ll have a leg up in dealing with the content.
Even though we’re very slowly moving towards the actual viewing of Star Wars, we’re greatly enjoying building Bluey’s knowledge of the StarWars universe. And his love of the story is already enormous!
We are doing this in a way. We read each Harry Potter book, then watch the movie. It’s great! We have let our kids watch Star Wars as the violence is not gory and isn’t realistic.