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Help! difficult child and his girlfriend want to see a gross R-rated horror flic
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<blockquote data-quote="hearts and roses" data-source="post: 557704" data-attributes="member: 2211"><p><span style="color: #008080"><span style="font-size: 10px">Just say no. You are not being arbitrary in deciding which R movies he can or can't see - it's what parenting entails. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #008080"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #008080"><span style="font-size: 10px">So many movies get a PG13 rating that should have an R rating and so many movies are given an R rating that should have an NC17 rating. I think you need to be very careful about which R rate movies YOU feel are appropriate for your kids...I would not trust the rating system. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #008080"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #008080"><span style="font-size: 10px">I hate gore movies as well, but I sure saw my fair share of them as a teen. I didn't allow my daughter, then in 5th grade I think, to see Titanic. At the time, I felt she was too young to see the horror of people losing their lives and dead bodies floating in the arctic waters. She begged, forever, so I made her do a research project on the actual Titanic and only then was she allowed to see it - with me. When we left, she was in tears and said she wishes she hadn't seen it. All of hers friends romanticized the love affair aspect of the story and more than anything, young kids have become immune to the meaning and finality of death and gore in movies. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #008080"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #008080"><span style="font-size: 10px">Okay, stepping down now - sorry to go off!</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hearts and roses, post: 557704, member: 2211"] [COLOR=#008080][SIZE=2]Just say no. You are not being arbitrary in deciding which R movies he can or can't see - it's what parenting entails. So many movies get a PG13 rating that should have an R rating and so many movies are given an R rating that should have an NC17 rating. I think you need to be very careful about which R rate movies YOU feel are appropriate for your kids...I would not trust the rating system. I hate gore movies as well, but I sure saw my fair share of them as a teen. I didn't allow my daughter, then in 5th grade I think, to see Titanic. At the time, I felt she was too young to see the horror of people losing their lives and dead bodies floating in the arctic waters. She begged, forever, so I made her do a research project on the actual Titanic and only then was she allowed to see it - with me. When we left, she was in tears and said she wishes she hadn't seen it. All of hers friends romanticized the love affair aspect of the story and more than anything, young kids have become immune to the meaning and finality of death and gore in movies. Okay, stepping down now - sorry to go off![/SIZE][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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