Age appropriate movies and TV shows
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| Wed, 06-23-2004 - 6:30pm |
My son is 3 1/2 and desperately wants to watch Spiderman and the Power Rangers. I think he is way too young to watch Spiderman but I have friends who let their kids who are the same age (and a little younger) watch the movies. One friend is a month older than my son and has the Spiderman DVD and will be going to Spiderman 2 next week. Isn't that a little young? Or am I just "old" in my thinking.
Same for the Power Rangers. Is he old enough to watch them? I was considering letting him watch that show soon (when he turns 4 or so) because it is "silly" and no-one dies and there is no blood, but I am starting to question if he should be watching them now.
What ages do you let your kids watch the violent stuff?
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I think you are perfectly right to feel that way. My ds wanted sooooo bad to watch pokemon and scooby doo and things like that, but my husband and I felt he was to young. I explained to my son who was also 3 that I knew those shows looked really interesting but that he was just to young. My dh and I have a rule that daily cartoons with violence will not be allowed. My ods is 7 now and we took him to see Lord of the Rings, and he loved it. My nephew who also saw it has always been allowed to watch whatever he wants...well when dn spends the night we can not watch Harry potter or Lord of the Rings, or even E.T. My ds is totally free from most childhood fears of open closets and under the bed monsters, I really feel because of our stand on watching things when he was young was a mayjor part of it.
My ods now has new favorite daily shows, like Mr. ED and Green Acres, all of the old goodies that have no sexual inuendo(that I can tell) no television commercials that are harmful. It is so nice especially since I myself as a kid was allowed to watch whatever I wanted and now I am 31 and cannot watch a horror movie with my dh! Well I hope that helps, you just have to follow your gut instinct.
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All kids are different and handle these things differently...
My son is good on some things and then bad on others.
But you should know better then anyone on if they will handle it ok.