My Single Mom Life

I took both of my teenage sons to see Clerks II on Wednesday and then on Sunday, I took them again and they each brought a friend.
All with parental permission of course.
I don't just go around corrupting young children at whim.

My sons are 13 and in just 14 days, one will be 15. Mark's friend is 15, and Sebastian's friend is 10. But again, I had permission to take them. I even explained to the parents that there would be racial jokes and words your kids may have never heard, there IS a donkey scene but you don't see anything, it's simply implied that the dude is blowing a donkey and still the parents all said yes, have a great time, kids behave yourselves.

Now, I got some shit from some holier than tho type who chastised my parenting over me taking kids to see it.
I shall quote the douche-bag because I know he lurks here, he can't help himself. ;)

"What quality family entertainment. What a wonderful mother they have."

Thanks! I am awesome! I, unlike many thousands of parents in this country, actually go to the movies with my kids. I watch tv with them, I watch rented movies with them.
Did you get that part? WITH THEM.
My kids are not handed $40 and sent off to the theater to be trusted to go see some PG flick, I go. You know how many kids I saw get dropped off both on Wednesday and Sunday in front of the theater and their naive mothers said have a nice time at Superman sweeties! only to watch them hop in line behind me and start giggling over sneaking in to see Clerks II? That's right, buy a ticket for Superman and sneak in to Clerks II. It's so easy to theater hop at our theater too, they don't have enough employees cuz the pay is shit.

I happen to love Smith's movies, the boys have seen them all too. Dogma is a classic movie at our house. We watch it all the time.
The boys love Smith's movies. They are funny, witty, and highly entertaining.
Nothing pisses me off more than some dill-hole who has never even watched Clerks or Clerks II, telling me what a bad mother I am.
Shut up dick weed! You haven't even seen it! How the hell can you judge a movie when you refuse to even watch it?!
I'm sure he didn't watch Dogma either, the blasphemy of it!
Lighten the fuck up, it's a thing called a movie. Some creative person has this idea, writes it down, and then puts it out there on film to share with the world.
That takes more balls than you'll ever have ass hat.

Kids get to this age when Disney isn't cutting it anymore. They can only watch PG movies so much before they want something different.
I'd rather be sitting in the seat next to my kids at the theater than just handing them money and hope that they see the movie they tell me they are going to.
My kids are honest and upfront about movies because they know I'll either go with them or rent it for them.
I'm not taking them to porn, nor am I renting porn. It's Kevin Smith for crying out loud, not Ron Jeremy and 20 big busted blonds!

The movie is hysterical and witty and oh my gosh! It's about friendship and how we impact the lives of the people we interact with on a daily basis.
And it touched on Jason Mewes battle with drug addiction that brought me to tears. Read that.
I applaud Jason for over coming his battle with drugs and alcohol and Kevin, my hat's off to you for never leaving his side.
So many people would have given up on him for some of the hell he put you through, but you stuck by this kid who just latched onto you one day and became your friend. You are both heroes in my book.

After the movie both times, all the kids and I talked about it, something else a lot of parents don't do. They just go, "Was it a good movie? Did you have fun? That's nice."
We talked about it. The racial jokes, all of it. We laughed over parts of it again and had a really good laugh about little mishap of Mikey's.
On Saturday night, Mikey, Mark and Sebastian went down to get some subs at Publix and Mikey was talking about how his dad was shooting coons. He said coon while in line at the deli and none of the kids could figure out why they were getting dirty looks.
After viewing the movie, they realized coon is a derogatory term for a black person.
His dad was shooting raccoons.
Now they get it.
See, they learned something from the movie. It wasn't just a laugh fest, it had messages in it, taught them something that if left un-taught, possibly could have gotten their asses kicked at some point.

Anyway, Clerks II is a great movie. It's obviously not for everyone but it's a great time for those people who love to laugh and have open minds.
Don't judge a movie without seeing it, and don't judge a mother because she took them to see it.