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Choosing to Watch Good Movies

It is the responsibility of the parents to make sure that their children are making wise media choices. As parents, we have the obligation to teach our children the difference between what is good and what is not. And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the profane, and cause them [...]

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Edited Movies Christmas Sale

Family Edited DVDs is liquidating their edited DVD inventory. They have a great deal going on right now. All the edited movies are half-price AND you get free shipping. However, because they are liquidating their business they require you to purchase a minimum of 10 DVDs. They say that the shipping takes 3-4 weeks, so [...]

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FHE Lesson with Ice Cream

We do not have cable television in our home; we canceled cable a year ago. We only get local channels, so rarely do we watch the popular cable TV shows. Besides, it is a “waste of time.” As Elder Uchtdorf said, “The nonessential things that take up time should be discarded, bad habits changed.” After [...]

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Airline Movies NOT Edited

I recently got back from a trip to Europe, and I was appalled at the fact that the movies were not edited to remove vulgar and obscene content. The last flight I had been on was a few years ago. It has been standard practice in the airline industry for the past few decades to [...]

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Teaching with Edited Movies

Teaching with movies is great, and teaching with edited movies is even better. Recently I encountered a website, Teach With Movies, that provides a way to use movies as an effective teaching method. This is a great way for teachers to supplement lesson plans for students K-12: TeachWithMovies.org offers Movie Lesson Plans and Learning Guides [...]