A better place to get morals and lessons?

Well, darling, I wouldn't have read the Bible to the offspring - it's a strange amalgam of tedious boredom and disgusting content, interspersed with some very odd stories.

He loved hearing me read him the Harry Potter books. We read at least a chapter a night for years and we often discussed the actions of the characters from a moral standpoint - was Harry doing the right thing, who was brave, why was what Malfoy did wrong.

I found it to be a good starting point for lessons - also he liked Star Wars and Pokemon as well as the standard kids' programming of his youth...all of which provided a good jumping off point for conversations about morals, compassion, integrity, honesty, kindness and other moral lessons.

It's amazing how many people have based their opinions of Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter on the movies and bring up things that are not part of either series in their answers. Read the danged books, people, and find out what the stories REALLY are.

The beast fable or beast epic, usually a short story or poem in which animals talk, is a traditional form of allegorical writing.[1] It is a type of fable in which human behaviour and weaknesses are subject to scrutiny by reflection into the animal kingdom.

Important traditions in beast fables are represented by the Panchatantra and Kalila and Dimna (Sanskrit and Arabic originals),[2] Aesop (Greek original), One Thousand and One Nights (Arabian Nights) and separate trickster traditions (West African and Native American). The medieval French Roman de Reynart is called a beast-epic, with the recurring figure Reynard the fox.[3]

Beast fables are typically transmitted freely between languages, and often assume pedagogic roles: for example, Latin versions of Aesop were standard as elementary textbook material in the European Middle Ages, and the Uncle Remus stories brought trickster tales into English. A more recent example, in English literature, was George Orwell's allegorical novel Animal Farm, in which various political ideologies were personified as animals, such as the anarchist Napoleon Pig, and the numerous "sheep" that followed his directions without question. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_fable

Of those, I'd go with Doctor Who.

There's also superheroes, such as Superman and Spiderman, the last of whom learned this lesson in his very first story:

-With great power comes great responsibility.-

There are instances of blood, genocide (half-bloods and mug-bloods vs. the non-existent pure bloods), rape (Hermione was assaulted non-sexually by Bella LeStrange, Éowyn was afraid to be caged by orcs and raped until her use was no longer needed), and tyranny (Lord Voldemort was a tyrant), in The Lord of the Rings, and Harry Potter. I have no idea about Dr. Who.

Why couldn't you think about the bad things in fantasy fiction. Next thing you'll be telling me are the moral applications of the Game of Thrones? You know you are selecting events from a standpoint of bias, right?

You can get morality from inside yourself, you know. It doesn't require an absolute external source.

Oh yeah. Your lying view of the Bible is the LAST place you should go to for morality for your children. Hollywood is definitely the greatest place to find morality and ethics.

I guess you could try those movies, but I know Lord Of the Rings can be quite violent as well as Harry Potter, maybe just try teaching parts of the bible that you think are okay? Hope I could help!

You could try just talking about Jesus. His message seemed to be a little toned-down compared to his Dad's.

no all those things are based on the bible. you should give them the vishnu puran which is about the god vishnu and how he overcomes evil with each new avatar, it came way before the bible is about awesome heroism shown by vishnu to defend people from demons. sadly no movies have been made about it.

The TV show: Adventure Time