Life Lessons Learned from Akeelah and The Bee

  On Saturday Night, we watched Akeelah and The Bee on Netflix. It was a fun and stimulating family movie that reached a wide audience with its various messages and life lessons. I love movies like this; they are entertaining for adults and kids but go deeper than your typical Disney-type movie. They are about something besides how to be cute and having everything in life magically fall into place whether you have put in the time and effort or not, like most Disney movies. This film was effective in engaging two eleven-year-olds, two fifty-two-year-olds, and a sixty-one-year-old, which is not bad....