For the Kardashians, any movie is okay at any age.

For the Duggars, a PG movie is okay at age 18, but nothing R ever.

For the Little People (my favorite couple on TV), I am guessing 4th grade is okay for PG.

I am the PP a few back who first mentioned indoor recess. I think they use them with a larger number of kids when kids cannot be in their classrooms unsupervised while teachers have a break. Ideally they could all play in the gym if the school has one and if there aren't too many kids for the space. So I get why they're occasionally used. But I don't see anything wrong with free reading, drawing, play dough, or being read to. I know that takes more effort on the part of the lunch monitor when they just really might need some peace and quiet!

DD is almost 6 and definitely gets very easily freaked out by movies. Most Disney ones we cannot watch because if too intense scenes. (She gets ample screen time - mostly tv shows like Octonauts or similar.). So I would be pretty mad about showing PG to K kids without any heads up vi would say PG seems best for those at least 8. But I am in the camp of being boggled at why this is needed in school. Even for indoor recess - there are toys in the room! Let them actually play with them for once! I see no reason for non- educational movie showing in school.

Anonymous wrote:Wow, I totally disagree with the responses on here so far. At 5 yrs old my DC was nowhere near ready for PG movies -- he was upset by G movies if they had sad plots (parent deaths like the Lion King) or scary parts (evil queen in Snow White).

I would expect my school to show only the most bland and acceptable-to-all movies (or better yet, none at all!).

But, G rated movies are often scarier than PG movies! So often, they involve dead parents, evil person story lines, etc.

Wow, I totally disagree with the responses on here so far. At 5 yrs old my DC was nowhere near ready for PG movies -- he was upset by G movies if they had sad plots (parent deaths like the Lion King) or scary parts (evil queen in Snow White).

I would expect my school to show only the most bland and acceptable-to-all movies (or better yet, none at all!).

Any age would be fine with me.

Actually it isn't a specific movie. It is about consistent screening of PG films to kids beginning in PK and continuing as they age.

We don't get any notice about any films that are shown. So DD comes home with bits and pieces of plot that don't make sense to her and I have to deduce what they saw this time.

If it's more than a year or so above the recommended age on common sense media, then I wouldn't show it.

Why are kids watching movies in school at all?!! I understand that some schools use them on indoor recess days, but even then there isn't enough time for a movie. My kids are highly prone to nightmares so I would not be happy about a PG movie without permission.

I agree that it depends on the movie.

PG is basically the lowest level today -- there are very few G movies anymore. So, I'd say once they are 5, PG is normal. However, I would not say that every PG movie is appropriate b/c many animated movies are too intense for kids 5-8. People think that just b/c it's animated, it doesn't mean anything to kids --- WRONG.

I think you are asking the wrong question, OP. The question isn't whether ALL PG movies are bad/good. The question you have is about a specific movie, right? And since you didn't tell us which movie you are concerned about, I don't know if you're being a helicopter parent or prudent.

Honestly, it depends on the movie. A Pixar-type thing, it would never occur to me to ask. A live action thing, depends on the topic. It's hard to find movies below PG-13 anyway.

We started allowing PG movies at 5. So I wouldn't blink at PG movies in kindergarten.

Kindergarten is when it happened to us...not really okay but happened enough that the majority must think it is ok.

At what grade do you think it is okay for a school to screen a pg movie without getting the parents permission first? Or giving the parents the option to opt out?