What are your movie rules?

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Anonymous wrote:My 3 year old watches some G movies like Frozen, The Jungle Book, Lady and the Tramp, 101 Dalmatians. We follow her lead though since there is a lot of variation in G movies as far as scary goes. We started to watch the little mermaid, but she though Ursula was too scary, so we turned it off. I can't imagine watching anything PG until Elementary school or a little later.

There was a scene in one of the Winnie the Pooh movies that sent my daughter running from the room. Nothing had ever scared her before, ever, but the Backson somehow hit a nerve. She loved all the Pooh movies and shorts, but it was a good six months before she’d watch that one again.

You really never know what will be OK and what’s going to hit them wrong, so you just have to help them learn to cope with whatever crops up. Sometimes even commercials or trailers for things you’d never let them watch can be a problem.

+1. Use your best judgment and don’t overthink it too much. Start with animated characters that your child already likes and go from there. If you try to measure every movie by age or too much violence or innuendo you and your kids will miss out on soo much. The world isn’t perfect or sanitized, stop trying to make it so and live life. As long as you can

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Anonymous wrote:No screens except to FaceTime distant relatives until age 7. Then up to an hour per week.

LOL

First child, bet you $100

Nope we have two kids. I work in tech - this is very common in that world.

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Even G movies can be scary for a 3 year old so be careful.

My kids love The secret life of Pets, Toy story, Finding Dory, Frozen, etc.

Movies like Moana have really scary parts in the beginning—the lava monster is a little much.

If your kid doesn’t watch TV at all, why not start with something like Daniel Tiger and Super Why? Daniel Tiger even has some 45 minute movies that are very well done.

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My 3 yo ( and 6 yo) loved My Neighbor Totoro and Kiki’s delivery service. They actually also liked Jacques Tati movies like Playtime and Mr. Hulot’s Holiday, which are adult movies with lots of visual humor.

Nature documentaries like the David Attenborough ones are great for them too.

As a bonus, these are all enjoyable for adults too.

Pixar movies are too scary for them. We’ve also watched Lion King and Wizard of Oz, but had to skip through a good chunk of each.

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Anonymous wrote:My 13 year old isn't allowed rated R yet.

I don't restrict my younger kids beyond that if DH or I are familiar with the movie and watching with them.

Same. And I need to know what’s in the movie that makes it pg 13 too. Sex is a no. Violence is a maybe depending on the kind of violence. Language doesn’t bother me.

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For my 9yo, PG movies are generally fine - although I am a little careful with some older PG movies.

PG13, it depends on why it's PG13. I'm OK with foul language and non-realistic violence or scary stuff (e.g. the later Harry Potter movies). I'm not OK with strong sexual innuendo or overt/normalized objectification of women. This is where some older movies fail - even aside from the creation of PG13 after TOD, some things were just considered acceptable in the 80s that aren't anymore.

The original Ghostbusters (good example of a PG movie before PG13 existed) was mostly an awesome kid-friendly movie but had a couple of very cringe-worthy scenes - neither of my kids have watched it yet, despite it technically being PG. I wouldn't expect that kind of stuff to appear in any movie rated PG today, or even PG13!

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I let my kids watch mostly all G and PG movies. A lot of kids animated movies today are PG , like Secret Life of Pets, Trolls, Boss Baby , etc. My 10 year old has seen a few PG-13 but no R movies.

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My DD is 7, and generally anything G or PG is fine, but I still check Common Sense Media for those - learned not to just rely on rating after watching Secret Life of Pets. PG-13 is off limits probably for another year or so, but some sneak through because I assumed they were PG (like the new Jumanji)

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Anonymous wrote:No screens except to FaceTime distant relatives until age 7. Then up to an hour per week.

LOL

First child, bet you $100

Nope we have two kids. I work in tech - this is very common in that world.

Yeah, all my silicon valley friends are screen free, it seems. We were mostly screen free until distance learning. Life was so so much easier then, without whining to see screens. There's no reason to start a three year old on movies.

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I don't care - as long as there is not sex (just the hint of sex is ok - as in, kissing, fondling and then the scene cuts to later on) or gore violence.

Eleven 11 old and 6 y old (although the 6y old watches things up to PG 13 because of her interests - the other day they watched Jurassic Park... just a hint of gore violence).

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I'd let my 3 year olds watch anything except Quentin Tarantino.

I'm kidding... Sort of...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No screens except to FaceTime distant relatives until age 7. Then up to an hour per week.

LOL

First child, bet you $100

Nope we have two kids. I work in tech - this is very common in that world.

Yeah, all my silicon valley friends are screen free, it seems. We were mostly screen free until distance learning. Life was so so much easier then, without whining to see screens. There's no reason to start a three year old on movies.

This. I'm not saying there's anything wrong, per se, with a 3 yo watching movies. And certainly most of them do. But there's no reason to *introduce* them imo if they're not being asked for. And most especially--if you're having to start them off with certain slow movies and then slowly "ramp them up"... I mean maybe it's something you don't need to do at this point at all.

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Agreed. My kid watches PBS kids for 30 minutes a day, and ten to 15 minutes of educational videos, max. That’s not even every day. He’s seen movies on airplanes, etc., but we aren’t pushing it.

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Anonymous wrote:I think we occasionally put on the occasional G movie, but mostly just things like Fireman Sam, Paw Patrol, or Bob the Builder.

Other friends watched whatever they felt like watching and the kid(s) just wandered about and either watched or didn't.

I'm talking about when you let your DC watch PG, PG-13-OP

Your kid is 3, why is this something you need to know today? Is it just curiosity? It runs a huge spectrum, I know kids not allowed to have 90 minutes of screentime or anything not PBS and I know parents who watch Avengers with their 6 year old- it just is not really something to worry about, do what you are comfortable with

FWIW my 1st child was not interested in a full movie until at least 4 (but closer to 5) my younger would watch from birth if given the chance.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No screens except to FaceTime distant relatives until age 7. Then up to an hour per week.

LOL

First child, bet you $100

Nope we have two kids. I work in tech - this is very common in that world.

Yeah, all my silicon valley friends are screen free, it seems. We were mostly screen free until distance learning. Life was so so much easier then, without whining to see screens. There's no reason to start a three year old on movies.

The thing is, SV folks as parents are insufferable when it comes to all the modern parents buzzwords, definitely including screens. I work in tech, as does my DH- SV folks are often caricatures of modern parents. We don't push TV or movies on our kids but its not a hill we die on either. We have family that work in film, TV and theater and obviously watched movies as kids as part of why they ended up wanting to be in that field.