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<blockquote data-quote="HaoZi" data-source="post: 408760"><p>Kiddo's favorite Wii games are things like Endless Ocean: Blue World. </p><p>When it was still shown on broadcast instead of cable, we did watch quite a bit of wrestling. I grew up watching it with my Dad (along with monster truck competitions and NASCAR, I was raised in the South!). We've also had a lot of discussions and shown her a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff on the wrestling and how much practice and dedication goes into what they do to minimize injuries and whatnot. I've also used it to open the door to talk to her about how easy it can be for some people to get hooked on painkillers and whatnot. I even took her to a live show about two years ago and it was the single best Mother's Day we've ever had.</p><p>She is now getting squeamish about blood on TV or in movies even though she knows it's fake. She also still thinks kissing is gross, lol. She has no issues with the blood on shark and dinosaur documentaries though. Not sure how that works. There was an episode of <em>The Middle</em> on recently where one of the characters snuck into a R-rated movie, and I used that as an opportunity to discuss it with her, as she pretty well knows that an R rating can be for any number of things, including too many uses of bad language (which I don't censor her from unless it's sex related stuff) and too much violence. She loves comic-book based movies (as do I), and both Difficult Child and Marvel are pretty good at not pushing anything I consider objectionable irregardless of their rating (Frank Miller movies are something else, I like 'em but won't let her watch them outside of most of <em>300</em> - some scenes in that I skip when she's watching with me).</p><p>So basically, I only censor her from sex stuff and on-screen drug use. Almost anything else is a teaching opportunity, mostly along the lines of how they did the special effects and stunts.</p><p>Edit: I also send her out of the room during the autopsy/crime scene shots.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HaoZi, post: 408760"] Kiddo's favorite Wii games are things like Endless Ocean: Blue World. When it was still shown on broadcast instead of cable, we did watch quite a bit of wrestling. I grew up watching it with my Dad (along with monster truck competitions and NASCAR, I was raised in the South!). We've also had a lot of discussions and shown her a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff on the wrestling and how much practice and dedication goes into what they do to minimize injuries and whatnot. I've also used it to open the door to talk to her about how easy it can be for some people to get hooked on painkillers and whatnot. I even took her to a live show about two years ago and it was the single best Mother's Day we've ever had. She is now getting squeamish about blood on TV or in movies even though she knows it's fake. She also still thinks kissing is gross, lol. She has no issues with the blood on shark and dinosaur documentaries though. Not sure how that works. There was an episode of [I]The Middle[/I] on recently where one of the characters snuck into a R-rated movie, and I used that as an opportunity to discuss it with her, as she pretty well knows that an R rating can be for any number of things, including too many uses of bad language (which I don't censor her from unless it's sex related stuff) and too much violence. She loves comic-book based movies (as do I), and both Difficult Child and Marvel are pretty good at not pushing anything I consider objectionable irregardless of their rating (Frank Miller movies are something else, I like 'em but won't let her watch them outside of most of [I]300[/I] - some scenes in that I skip when she's watching with me). So basically, I only censor her from sex stuff and on-screen drug use. Almost anything else is a teaching opportunity, mostly along the lines of how they did the special effects and stunts. Edit: I also send her out of the room during the autopsy/crime scene shots. [/QUOTE]
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