Would you let your 7 year old watch Home Alone?

[Anonymous]

We just watched it with our 7 year old and in retrospect might have waited. She was sad about the prospect that a kid could be left home, and there is more bad language than I recalled.

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Anonymous wrote:Sure. We go very low on screen time, but don't sensor much art.

Ha! Same. We don’t watch much, but this is allowed.

[Anonymous]

Haha - the movie has scarred her because she is worried about being left alone. ???
How has it become that we are raising a generation of precious snowflakes!? When I was growing up, every single fairytale was about kids, being abandoned or orphaned I actually romanticized this and wished that I would be orphaned. I wanted to be Oliver twist or the little girl in a secret garden or the little princess!! It’s just cracks me up. We are watching home alone two right now. I have to say. These movies are adorable and classics.

[Anonymous]

I would never have even thought about it. It's perfect for that age

[Anonymous]

No, because what all of you are not understanding is that the core of the message to a 7 year old is abandonment. The child in that movie is abandoned by his parents. Your child will think "Oh, wow, will my parents do that to me? Hollywood says so" and now you have a kid with an anxiety disorder

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Anonymous wrote:No, because what all of you are not understanding is that the core of the message to a 7 year old is abandonment. The child in that movie is abandoned by his parents. Your child will think "Oh, wow, will my parents do that to me? Hollywood says so" and now you have a kid with an anxiety disorder

So for the last 20 years our society is full of kids with anxiety disorders from watching this movie? Really ?? I grew up watching Hansel and Gretel being baked in an oven by the stepmother/witch and I’m a perfectly normal functioning adult !!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, because what all of you are not understanding is that the core of the message to a 7 year old is abandonment. The child in that movie is abandoned by his parents. Your child will think "Oh, wow, will my parents do that to me? Hollywood says so" and now you have a kid with an anxiety disorder

So for the last 20 years our society is full of kids with anxiety disorders from watching this movie? Really ?? I grew up watching Hansel and Gretel being baked in an oven by the stepmother/witch and I’m a perfectly normal functioning adult !!

+1 we talked about it with our kids… how Kevin being left like that and someone not helping him would not really happen. The rude way the whole family talks to one another. How the bad guys getting hurt is funny in the movie, but would really hurt them in real life. My kids love it (6 and 8, watched it last year, too), but understand it does not represent reality.

[Anonymous]

So we watched it last year with a 4&5yo and BOY oh BOY was it a bit darker than I remember. Fast forward to the summer and we found ourselves with an interesting mix of old DVDs for the former nanny minivan.

One I had on loop for a while was Uncle Buck. Again - a little dicey in sections but overall a wholesome message and fun story. McCauley Kulkin also stars as the precocious middle child.

So lo and behold when we watched Home Alone this year - and discussed the possibility that gangsters were gunned down over money issues in the past - who should appear in the Scranton airport with the Polka Kings but Uncle Buck!

The excitement on their faces being able to see Uncle Buck save the day again was rewarding.

I haven’t told them that Uncle Buck’s big old heart gave out a few years later due to abuse of not going to bed on time AND not eating enough of his grow foods.

[Anonymous]

Kids watched it last year at 6 and 4 and absolutely loved it.

I’m low screen time but I think Christmas movies are important. It’s slapstick violence but I’m ok with violence like that (foiling robbers?).

[Anonymous]

DCUM, never change. Uptight parents are the norm. Avoid Rudolph as well, it has discrimination against a reindeer with an obvious disability.

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Anonymous wrote:I let my six year old watch it last year. So far, she hasn't hit Joe Pesci in the head with an iron, but we'll see.

Hahahaha

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Anonymous wrote:I just watched it again last week and decided I wouldn't let my 7 year old see it, but I'm pretty conservative about those kinds of things.

Weirdo.

Your momma

[Anonymous]

Who are you people? Are your kids super literal devoid of imagination? They can't even sit through a short movie because there is too much talking. What in the world?

[Anonymous]

My 3 year old loves it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, because what all of you are not understanding is that the core of the message to a 7 year old is abandonment. The child in that movie is abandoned by his parents. Your child will think "Oh, wow, will my parents do that to me? Hollywood says so" and now you have a kid with an anxiety disorder

Wut?

My 6 and 8 y/os recently watched it and know this would never happen. We actually talked about how silly and unrealistic it is, but they were amused by the idea of getting to be home alone without adults, not anxious this would ever happen. We’ve never so much as forgotten to pick them up from a sports practice or the bus stop. So they’re pretty secure we would not leave them.

For goodness sakes it is a fictional movie.