Here are some suggestions for discussion. Along the way, she proposes that tradition change so the young people of the clans will be allowed to decide themselves when and if and who they will marry. She shows growing maturity in improving understanding with her mother and working to solve both the challenges from the curse.
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Merida must find out how to break the spell before her mother stays a bear forever, and prevent her mom from being killed by her dad. Now her mother is a bear that her father is hunting, thinking it’s the same bear that bit off his leg years ago. But when the queen eats the magical cake, she’s transformed into a giant black bear. Shown as a realistically self-centered adolescent, she feels her mother is the problem, rebels against her parents, and runs away to the forest, finding a witch she pays to cast a spell to change the queen. When the time comes, Merida doesn’t want to give up her freedom. At the same time, as first-born daughter of one of four clans in a Scottish kingdom, she’s expected to maintain peace by accepting an arranged marriage to a first-born son of one of the other three clans, just as her mother had done.
In childhood, she’s allowed to follow her passions as an independent, adventurous and highly skilled archer and horserider. One of the film’s strengths is its emotionally realistic, rather than slapstick, portrayal of things that will be scary for many children, like the transformation of the main character’s mom into a bear who almost attacks her daughter and husband a couple times.īrave is Pixar’s first feature with a female main character, and the storyline focuses on the relationship between her and her mother, Queen Elinor. This film would have given my daughters nightmares at age 8. I’d put the recommended age even higher for imaginative and/or emotionally sensitive children. She is still the publisher and is a national leader in the movement to empower girls and foster their creativity and self-confidence. She’s also the Executive Director of Dads and Daughters, the national advocacy non-profit for fathers and daughters, and manages the newsletter Daughters: For Parents of Girls. The author of How to Say it to Girls: Communicating with your Growing Daughter, Nancy is frequently asked to speak about girls’ issues and communication strategies for adults with 8 to 14 year-old girls in their lives. She lives in Duluth, Minnesota with her husband Joe Kelly.īrave is rated PG for “Parental Guidance Suggested.” Common Sense Media recommends Brave for ages 8 and up, because of some “very scary scenes” but their review also notes that Brave might be suitable for children as young as 6, depending on the child.
Nancy Gruver and her family founded the groundbreaking international publication, New Moon: The Magazine for Girls and Their Dreams, in 1992. This parent-child discussion guide for Disney/Pixar’s Brave is a supplement to The Princess Problem: Guiding Our Girls through the Princess-Obsessed Years.īrave (2012): A parent-child discussion guide
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