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garyfritz
Joined: 08 Apr 2006
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Location: Fort Collins, CO
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| Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 8:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Person99 wrote: | | I've actually never had a problem with "PG" since they introduced PG-13--in other words, I've never seen a PG (post PG-13 intro) movie that I have a problem showing my 6 year old. |
One example that comes to mind is ET: The Extra-Terrestrial. The 2002 edited version is rated PG, not PG-13, says IMDB.
I remembered thinking ET was a really cute movie so I wanted to show it to my kids when they were about 8 & 10. I forgot (or more likely never noticed, in those pre-kid days) how much questionable language there is in that movie!! No F-bombs if I remember right, but a kid calling another kid "penis-breath" and plenty of other cussing made it something I would not have shown my boys. Obviously mere swearing is not enough for a PG-13 rating.
(Of course, they're 12 & 14 now, and I just took them to their first rock concert -- Green Day. Holy @#%%# Batman! I'd say at least 10-20% of the words out of the lead singer's mouth were f--- this and f---in' that. And there were a LOT of 10-14-yr-old kids at that show. That is just not necessary or appropriate. Their songs have a few nasty words here and there, but I didn't expect the concert to be a non-stop potty-mouth session. Sheesh.)
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WanMan
Joined: 19 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 10:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Person99 wrote: | | WanMan wrote: | | Its simple, in my book. If you are a parent and are actually parenting then you will make time to find out the negative aspects of a movie before letting the little one(s) see it with you. |
The simple fact (and what has been discussed in this thread if read it) is that there is no comprehensive way to do that. You would literally have to watch every movie in its entirety before showing it to them. If you are doing that, you are not spending time with your child, so a bad parent. So, the only fool proof way to do what you advocate is that parents of small children should not allow their child to see any movie. |
Sure there is. As a parent, you watch the movie first and if its safe the kids watch it next. I actually have good friends that do exactly that.
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WanMan
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| Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 10:55 pm Post subject: |
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| greg_mitch wrote: | It really easy for people that aren't parents to talk about how easy it is to be a parent.  |
As tri joel said, its easy when we get to see all the mistakes parents are making. I have ten siblings and all but one is older than me. By the time I stopped paying attention to them, I had 30 nieces and nephews, and I got to see a lot of things and ask why they chose this or that, decided this or that, etc., etc., etc.
One does not have to be a parent to recognize common sense. Don't want to risk your child seeing something in a movie you are watching at home? View it before they can, or don't air it at home at all. Boy, really complex, sophisticated parenting there.
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greg_mitch
Joined: 03 May 2006
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| Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:57 am Post subject: |
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| WanMan wrote: | | greg_mitch wrote: | | It really easy for people that aren't parents to talk about how easy it is to be a parent. |
As tri joel said, its easy when we get to see all the mistakes parents are making. I have ten siblings and all but one is older than me. By the time I stopped paying attention to them, I had 30 nieces and nephews, and I got to see a lot of things and ask why they chose this or that, decided this or that, etc., etc., etc.
One does not have to be a parent to recognize common sense. Don't want to risk your child seeing something in a movie you are watching at home? View it before they can, or don't air it at home at all. Boy, really complex, sophisticated parenting there. |
Parents just don't understand...
I haven't been a parent long and the first thing they teach you in parenting school is to STFU when it comes to other peoples kids.
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WanMan
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| Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 11:23 am Post subject: |
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I've never spoken in content of kids of a specific parent, but rather in general. That said, if you do not have the time to pre-screen movies in your own home before the little ones might see it then you do not have the time for your kids. Period.
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