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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At 3 my kids only watched animated G rated shows or movies, and rarely had the attention span to sit through an entire show much less a movie..really wasn’t much of an issue at that age either way!

Mine are now 9 & 11. I find movie ratings pretty irrelevant. We often show movies we have already seen (movies like ET or Karate Kid  etc). If it is something new, I read some reviews online and decide from there. Some things don’t bother me at this age (mild language/cursing, gross out talk, etc) and some things bother me a lot more (violence). I don’t necessarily go by ratings, but more so by “what” is objectionable specifically. [/quote]

I think I agree with this. I hadn't really considered movie "rules" because my 8 yo has seen so few of them. Maybe half a dozen? Since the circumstances/opportunities have been random, frankly, I think all of them have been PG, except for the one her dad was in, which was PG-13. But the content was fine as far as we were concerned. I will check Common Sense more as this becomes a thing-- I did for one she was shown in Kindergarten. To be honest, she's seen a lot more plays that would be rated PG-13 or maybe even R! So either I'm a poor judge of inappropriate content or just have a different value set or something.[/quote]

Your 8-year-old has only seen 6 movies? In theaters?[/quote]

I guess she's seen 2 movies in theaters. Maybe 4 or 5 at people's houses or school. Just realized I wasn't counting those short planetarium and IMAX films at Air & Space. She's seen a handful of those but I'm sure they're all G?

I'm like that other poster who doesn't have TV/streaming/etc. and it wasn't asked for. We're just not a big screen-using household outside of work-- and now, by necessity, school. It's no big deal, and it ain't broke so we ain't fixing' it (for now). [/quote]

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