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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did our parents have all this angst and handwringing when we were growing up?[/quote]

My parents were incredibly strict. I don't think I saw a movie in a theater until I was 10yo.

But really, it didn't scar me for life. My own child is 4, and I have no intention of taking her to a movie anytime soon (though I'm not waiting until 10 like my own parents).

Personally I'm more concerned about the very loud volume of movies. I wear earplugs when I go to the theater. Can't really expect young kids to do that on their own at camp. Hearing loss is real, y'all (I say that as the child of a parent with significant hearing loss).[/quote]

I knew plenty of kids who were not allowed to watch certain movies, or categories of movies, when I was growing up, and this was in the 1980s.  Some parents let their kids watch anything, but plenty were vigilant and had strict rules.  My own parents wouldn't let me watch any horror movies, even as a tween, because they gave me nightmares.

More to the point, if you have good reason to believe that a movie is going to upset/scare your child, why would you make him go?  [/quote]

My "kids" are 31 and 35 now.  They had lots o sleepovers growing up.  Many times when they came home after the sleepover I would learn that the parents of their friends let them watch ""R" rated movies.  I was not happy.  
I remember taking my kids to see Jurrasic Park when they were 6 and 10 and they couldn't handle it.  We left the theater.  [/quote]

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