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by Baconater on April 8th, 2007

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Do you let your kids watch R or PG13 rated movies? How old are they?

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  • by christian123 on December 16th, 2008

    christian123

    my kids are 1, 5, 9, and 7, and they all watch r movies with tons of sex and violence. They need to know what the real world is like. just last week the family movie was superbad! my kids sneak their friends over to watch r movies sometimes too. I have great values because i make those kids pay me to watch the movies. this way they learn business

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  • by JAMMco... its complicated... on November 28th, 2007

    JAMMco... its complicated...

    My kids are 12, 9, 6.

    They have never seen a rated R movie that was not edited for television and first watched by me, and still I mute words and have them close their eyes for certain content. (I believe the only R movie edited for television they have seen is The Matrix and parts of the Blues Brothers, and during the Matrix they close their eyes for a lot of the violence... and only my two older ones have seen it)

    My kids will watch a PG-13 DVD only if I have watched it first, and if it requires fast forwarding during any part... they cannot watch it without me present.

    I make it a rule that they will not see a PG-13 movie unless I have first seen it, either at the theatre or at home on DVD. The only time this is not enforced is with my son and we both attend together at the theatre (Spiderman 2 and 3 for example).

    PG movies I am more leanient on with my kids seeing it without me (but usually with another adult like the parent of a friend), but I always look up information about the movie and have a good idea what the content is.

    We do not watch rated R movies that are not edited for television and even those I am very selective about (even for myself).

    Hopefully my kids adopt these values and assess what they view as proper entertainment.
    They should be appalled by sexual misconduct, not entertained by it.
    They should be disgusted by gratuitous violence and gore, not amazed by it.

    It's my job to instill these values into them, not the theatre, not the producers, not the organization that rates movies, and not the moral climate of the world around me.

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  • by YouWinImOuttaHere on April 8th, 2007

    YouWinImOuttaHere

    PG Yes (Age 10-11 up)
    R Yes (Age 14 up)

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  • by Nom de guerre on April 8th, 2007

    Nom de guerre

    No.
    They're 2 and 3.
    I'd let them see a PG movie geared towards the whole family, if it was something I could stand to sit through. Nanny McPhee, for example - we love that.

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  • by sleidman on April 8th, 2007

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    I watched my first R movie when I was thirteen, The Green Mile

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  • by ConservativelyLiberal on October 9th, 2010

    ConservativelyLiberal

    My 7yearold and I watch R-rated movies together. He really likes Poltergeist.

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  • by Gnome of Kevonia is a Cheerwine junkie on July 9th, 2009

    Gnome of Kevonia is a Cheerwine junkie

    I am 16 and I am always allowed to see PG-13 and almost always R.

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  • by Little big mouth on November 28th, 2007

    Little big mouth

    Mine is 15 & she can watch any movie with violence but just not sex scenes

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  • by Barcaluv on April 8th, 2007

    Barcaluv

    I let my 14-year-old son watch almost all PG-13 movies. I also let him watch with me some "R" mainly on DVD. I tend to get informed beforehand about the content and theme of what we're going to watch.

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  • by nancy_A5295 on April 5th, 2012

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    PG13= 13
    RATED R= 18

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  • by aspgirl21 on August 20th, 2011

    aspgirl21

    I don't have kids. I've got nieces and nephews, though. My eldest nephew is almost 12 years old and he's pretty much allowed to watch anything he wants (he's watched films such as "Jackass The Movie" and "Piranha"). The others have watched films which have ratings of 15 (and maybe the odd 18), though my youngest nephew is still a bit too young, so he's still reduced to watching PG films. I watched my first 18 film when I was 4 years old. "Blind Fury". The gore fascinated me and the vulgar language made me giggle, but it never tainted me, even the slightest. And, it seems that kids these days are getting much tougher. =o)

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  • by mrsstephyg on October 9th, 2010

    mrsstephyg

    I don't pay attention to the ratings. I watch the movie myself first.

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  • by vqueen on October 9th, 2010

    vqueen

    my paretns started letting me watch rated R movies when i was 10

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  • by emillahentell on August 17th, 2010

    emillahentell

    My parents never restricted me. I could've watched an R rated movie at 5 years of age. I was one of those queer kids who freaked out right before I actually bought the tickets to a horror film. I had a weak stomach at that. PG-13 movies were nothing. Most of the movies I watched were PG-13, and a few were R. I mustered up the courage to watch a R rated film when I was 11 years old. Even then, I picked up a fairly genteel one. It talked slightly of cannibalism, nudity, birth scene, and mutilated flesh. But nothing with too much blood and gore.

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  • by Stefan_R on November 11th, 2010

    Stefan_R

    Look im 13 and I was allowed to watch G - R movies from the age of 6 although I watched RobboCop at the age of 4 :D and if you don't let you're children watch Pg movies kids will tease them like this kid at my school he left how baddly he got teased. He was 12 and didnt know simple movies like the Matrix or The Terminator, Like come on every adult have watched terminator when they were little.

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  • by StrawDog on August 20th, 2011

    StrawDog

    i'm 17 now, but for the past few years, my mom actually makes me preview the R movies to see if they are fine for the whole family to watch. From a very young age, (like 6 or 7) i began getting really into Horrors so i would always watch R movies then.

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  • by Badcube on August 20th, 2011

    Badcube

    Yes you can't stop them from not seeing it, they've already have been on the internet where porn is everywhere you look. I tell my little brother not to look at the screen when a woman is naked etc but then I stop and realize he already saw a picture of an obese woman naked with Louisville Slugger up her snatch.

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  • by Blinding Darkness on August 20th, 2011

    Blinding Darkness

    I'm thirteen, and I can watch MA15+ movies, as long as it's not for explicit sex scenes.

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  • by paulnaylor on July 27th, 2010

    paulnaylor

    i was allowed to watch R rated movies as a kid i knew the difference between fantasy and reality i never copied anything for example i saw the Texas chainsaw massacre when i was 11 and after i had watched it it never once made me want to make a leather mask and grab a chainsaw and go on a killing spree i mean you just don't do it do you and also kids are older than their age in years on an I.Q and Maturity scale! i wouldn't disallow any kid of mine to watch something i was allowed and we are talking about a kid now in the 21st century i was a kid in the 20th century there is a big difference of course i didn't watch them at the cinema/theater i saw them on video my oh my video i am showing my age but you see when i was a kid there wasn't dvd or blue ray but vhs and betamax and video 2000

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