Do you allow your teens to watch TV MA rated shows such as American Horror Story and Weeds?

[Anonymous]

My teens (14 and 16 yo girls) have been binge watching these shows. I am totally against them watching and have set up parental controls on our Netflix account. My husband thinks I am over reacting, but I think the content on these shows goes too far and validate behaviors that are not appropriate for teens. Thoughts?

[Anonymous]

No way. Weeds has pretty graphic sex and very adult humor. I don't know what's in American Horror Story, but no way. Maybe at 17 but not 14.

[Anonymous]

My kids are 15 and 17. We actually watch American Horror Story together a lot. Good show! Scary and freakish.
I've never seen Weeds.
I dont get hung up on TV though. We watch a lot of shows on Netflix that sometimes get a little racy. I usually joke to my kids to close their eyes.
No biggie.

[Anonymous]

Nope! I wouldn't let them either

[Anonymous]

Nope. No True Detective. No Zombies. No family Guy either (All flatulence jokes). Parental controls on everything. We're into series watching of all the Star Trek movies and t.v. shows; the Doc Martin series (great for kids except for two episodes - didn't see that bondage scene coming, or Auntie on the kitchen table having sex with the young man). Sherlock Holmes is great.

[Anonymous]

I havent seen Weeds. Personally, I think American Horror Story is across the line. But my daughter (13) and I watch Walking Dead together and she's seen a few episodes of Justified.

If you think your girls are mature enough to handle it, they've probably seen and heard worse on the schoolbus.

[Anonymous]

I have seen Weeds an I wouldn't let my 14 year old watch that. And I'm pretty liberal with what he watches. I might let him watch at 16. Never seen American Horror Story so cant comment on that.

[Anonymous]

I am 16 and I am not allowed to watch either of those shows.

[Anonymous]

NO

[Anonymous]

Yes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No way. Weeds has pretty graphic sex and very adult humor. I don't know what's in American Horror Story, but no way. Maybe at 17 but not 14.

There is also at least one torture scene in weeds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My teens (14 and 16 yo girls) have been binge watching these shows. I am totally against them watching and have set up parental controls on our Netflix account. My husband thinks I am over reacting, but I think the content on these shows goes too far and validate behaviors that are not appropriate for teens. Thoughts?

I can totally understand that you wouldn't want your kids watching those shows. I don't allow my 14 year old to do so either. However, I don't subscribe to the idea that just because kids watch something on TV that they get the idea that it's OK to do it in real life. I watched a lot of MASH as a child but never built a still, cheated on my husband with a co-worker or went with prostitutes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My teens (14 and 16 yo girls) have been binge watching these shows. I am totally against them watching and have set up parental controls on our Netflix account. My husband thinks I am over reacting, but I think the content on these shows goes too far and validate behaviors that are not appropriate for teens. Thoughts?

I can totally understand that you wouldn't want your kids watching those shows. I don't allow my 14 year old to do so either. However, I don't subscribe to the idea that just because kids watch something on TV that they get the idea that it's OK to do it in real life. I watched a lot of MASH as a child but never built a still, cheated on my husband with a co-worker or went with prostitutes.

+1

[Anonymous]

Weeds was one of my favorite shows, but I consider it wildly inappropriate for teens! At the very least, it deserves a discussion of all of the poor choices that the characters made -- and there were A LOT of them.

[Anonymous]

I have parental controls on all rated R movies as well as MA for shows. My kid is 14. We watch a few shows but not much. We are movie watchers on the weekend and really no TV on weekdays besides a few game shows. A lot of her friends watch those ABC Family shows and they are just like 90210. She's not into them but I guess I would be okay with that if she was. But Weeds, AHS?? No way.