Anyone who grew up reading Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret knows it’s a no-brainer for girls/kiddos to watch. But as I sat in the movie theater vacillating between laughing and crying for 80 minutes, I realized that I needed my boys to watch this too. Anyone with young men aged 7-11 can learn a lot from it, especially how *not* to act and how to navigate peer and societal pressures.
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Read Morehe trope of the absentee or deadbeat dad is so pervasive that it often seems like a lazy way to motivate your protagonist. Think of your top five movies and then try to name one whose dad is a good influence, or even alive.
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