Hairspray

Maggie loves musicals - the dancing, the singing, the bright colored costumes... and she is in LOVE with Tracy Turnblad. As a mom, I am questioning my parenting skills a little bit because Mags is about a decade too young to appreciate the themes in the movie. Yes, she's dealt with Nazis in The Sound of Music, bathtub-gin-swigging orphanage matrons in Annie, and even ogre-discrimination in Shrek... but never before has she been exposed to a movie where they talk about "negro day" at the Corny Collins Show - or, really, where people talk about other people being fat. We're just rolling with it and hoping that maybe she'll understand that the movie is about all people being equally important and celebrating diversity. Or, maybe she'll just show up at KinderCare one day talking about fat people and "negros." That would suck. Bad parenting on my part? Probably, but it's not a Barbie movie, and she just really loves the music - and Zac Efron, I hate to admit.