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So, I am kind of dead curious about something now. How old were you when your parents started allowing you to see rated R movies (and under what circumstances), and if you are a parent how old were your kids (or will your kids be) when you allow them? And also, I'm kind of wondering if when you were born affects this, because there were actually a lot more on the No You May not list for my kid than there were on my parent's list for me, even though we had roughly the same rules about it, on account of I think there were more movies with the kinds of graphic violence and extreme situations when my kid was growing up than when I did.
Like, okay...I mentioned in comments of the navel gazing post...in my house growing up, once we hit about, I guess 10 or 11 if one or both of my parents were going to see a rated R movie we were pretty much allowed to go with if we wanted as long as it didn't appear there would be excessive violence/gore/adult situations on the extreme sort of end mostly, or we could go to whatever other movie that was PG playing at the same time or whatever. We weren't allowed to go *without* a parent, and there were some movies on the No You May Not list even with until about I...want to say around 14, when I was basically allowed to go see whatever I wanted with or without a parent.
Just, in general my parents had pretty lax rules about media consumption in that we were allowed to read whatever we wanted from always (if you could pull it off a shelf and read the words in it? then it was your decision). Open communication was always encouraged about whatever it is we were reading or watching, but the decision (except, like I said up there in the case of movies with high gore/violence content) was up to us? Which, I don't know if it was just the lack of taboo, or if I was a boring kid, but to be honest most of the time I opted for the more 'kid friendly' movie in the theater, and the only arguments I remember about the No You May Not list was my growing love of horror at the time, and not being allowed to see a lot of those movies in theater (and on VHS) until a few years later.
In terms of my own kid, I mostly followed the same sort of deal. Read anything you want. Light restriction of movies/tv in that nudity/swearing were not dealbreakers but extreme violence of any kind would be until teenage years, when I started leaving it up to him.
So how did your parents handle it? And how do you/would you (if applicable) handle/plan to handle it with your own kids?
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Like, okay...I mentioned in comments of the navel gazing post...in my house growing up, once we hit about, I guess 10 or 11 if one or both of my parents were going to see a rated R movie we were pretty much allowed to go with if we wanted as long as it didn't appear there would be excessive violence/gore/adult situations on the extreme sort of end mostly, or we could go to whatever other movie that was PG playing at the same time or whatever. We weren't allowed to go *without* a parent, and there were some movies on the No You May Not list even with until about I...want to say around 14, when I was basically allowed to go see whatever I wanted with or without a parent.
Just, in general my parents had pretty lax rules about media consumption in that we were allowed to read whatever we wanted from always (if you could pull it off a shelf and read the words in it? then it was your decision). Open communication was always encouraged about whatever it is we were reading or watching, but the decision (except, like I said up there in the case of movies with high gore/violence content) was up to us? Which, I don't know if it was just the lack of taboo, or if I was a boring kid, but to be honest most of the time I opted for the more 'kid friendly' movie in the theater, and the only arguments I remember about the No You May Not list was my growing love of horror at the time, and not being allowed to see a lot of those movies in theater (and on VHS) until a few years later.
In terms of my own kid, I mostly followed the same sort of deal. Read anything you want. Light restriction of movies/tv in that nudity/swearing were not dealbreakers but extreme violence of any kind would be until teenage years, when I started leaving it up to him.
So how did your parents handle it? And how do you/would you (if applicable) handle/plan to handle it with your own kids?
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