So few kids

[starlite_]

I dunno. I mean, I get your point, but I watched Tom & Jerry when I was 6 and younger and never once imitated it. I think that's where the "Parental Guidance" comes in.

You mean parents have to parent and not just drop their kids in front of a tv?! Shocked, I'm shocked.

 

[BrianL]

Kids brought knives into our high school when I was a kid. I always had a Swiss-army knife. Never an issue. Kids would never THINK to use them to attack another person back then. Now, you're expelled and arrested if you even bring in a knife. Heck, kids even brought in guns sometimes. Scenes from Porky's were re-enacted, there were Kissing Booths. Back then, many things were okay that you'd get arrested for now.

It's just that you can't like, turn on an old movie/cartoon you grew up in from the 1980s, and think it's all innocent because you lived through the movie and didn't act up. Or you acted up, but it was okay back then. Now if you take a naked picture of someone's girlfriend and put it on the bottom of a pie, it's not just teen high-jinks, it's a lot more serious.

What I think I'm saying is that you need to re-watch them so you can re-evalutate it from today's perspective and be able to parent from that - instead of the perspective you remembered.

It's absolutely fair to rewatch and evaluate the appropriateness - I only took issue with your assertion that 6-year-olds WILL imitate what they see. Most in fact won't, and most aren't going to be scarred by the ocassional bad act in a movie, not with the proper guidance and teaching from home.

 

[bbeagle]

You mean parents have to parent and not just drop their kids in front of a tv?! Shocked, I'm shocked.

Thats not what I was saying at all. If you remember watching a movie like ET as a kid, Rewatch it before dropping a kid in front of something you remembered was appropriate.

 

[starlite_]

Thats not what I was saying at all. If you remember watching a movie like ET as a kid, Rewatch it before dropping a kid in front of something you remembered was appropriate.

I fail to see how ET could possibly be inappropriate for a kid. I also don't assume kids will be scarred forever from hearing a curse word on tv, you can in fact just explain that it's a curse word and that they shouldn't repeat it. Kids will hear and learn all kinds of things in real life, even if you ban everything not PG by today's standards then they will learn about it at school from other kids.

For sure, don't show little kids Saw or GoT or Texas Chainsaw Massacre , but getting all worried about things like ET is super extreme imo. You are free to parent however you want tho.

 

[BrianL]

Thats not what I was saying at all. If you remember watching a movie like ET as a kid, Rewatch it before dropping a kid in front of something you remembered was appropriate.

But my parents let me watch E.T. when I was 4 and felt it was perfectly appropriate. What if I still feel that it is?