My kids are 12 and 10 and some TV-14 programs are inappropriate for them in my opinion. Rated R for violence and gore is fine. Language and Sex = no watch.

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My kids started watching R movies in middle school.

I use IMDB parental guide to determine why it is R. For example, Stand by Me is R because of an immense amount of cussing. That did not bother me.

Exactly the same here, including my first movie.

When my kids were 10 we definitely watched PG 13 movies as all of the transformer and avengers movies were right up their alley. They started watching R movies in middle school. That’s because they are both obsessed with horror films. For me my first R movie was Saturday Night Fever. I was about 13 or 14 when it came out

Anonymous wrote:We'll follow the age guidelines. Rules are rules around here.

The age guidelines are that you can see them if your parents come.

I took my history lover to The King’s speech at 11, which is a perfect example of how the rating isn’t everything.

DH took DS13 to go see "Good Boys" over the weekend. DH acts like a kid himself at times but can go to being a strict Father when necessary. There is no reason to shelter a teen in middle school or high school. We were all there at one time and nothing changes.

My son is 15, I won’t let him watch r rated movies

Anonymous wrote:I was probably 9.

The age at which I'd let my kid are a certain movie depends more on the reason for the movie's rating than the rating itself.

Yep. My kid's first R rates movie with me was the King's Speech at 11.

I am pretty sure he wasn't scarred.

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Anonymous wrote:No way. When I grew up, there was no PG-13 so a lot more things were R. R rated movies now are truly adult content.

Yeah. What used to be R is now PG 13 for the most part. The more gruesome or more sexually explicit stuff is R.

I was 17 but I had very protective parents.

Why do you guys say that? I grew up in 80s and rated R movies then were actually far more provocative and sexually explicit than they are now.

OP, I don't remember my first R movie...we saw a ton of them at a very young age (7,8,9,10, etc). I have a 9 year old. For my children I would say 13. I believe you said you're child is 10, I would be more likely to let a child this age see a violent movie than a sexually explicit one.

Rated R movies can be very different. Some are rated R because a chharacter says fuck now and then. Some because there is nudity in a romantic love scene. Some because a woman is brutally murdered during sado-masochistic sex. I am very liberal and would take an 11 year old wear if there is profanity or nudity. I would not take an 11 year old to warch s&m or graphic violence.

8, it was a horror movie, Aliens. My mother would've done anything to prevent me from seeing sex scenes or even brief nudity but she didn't have a problem with horror or violence. The movie had a lot of cursing though, she was pretty unhappy about that.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm pretty laid back about stuff like this. I'm fine with my 14 year old seeing Rated-R movies as long as they aren't overly sexual of violent. Horror movies are ok, for example. He started playing rated M games fairly young because he had older brothers and sisters. I would not take a ten year old to see any rated R movie. That's just too young even by my admittedly relaxed standards.

Hopefully you don't allow your son's friends to play M games or watch the movies without asking the parents first. It really infuriates me when other parents don't ask me, since i'm the one left dealing with the consequences. (nightmares and/or refusing to sleep alone in my kids case)

If your 14 year old has nightmares from video games, you have much bigger problems to worry about.

Took my 13 YO, along with his 17 YO sister, to see Bad Moms. That was his first R-rated movie and he was shocked and amused by the language, sexual references and drinking/drugging. (He counted the number of uses of the f-word, which was cute.) It made for some good conversation. I wouldn't take him to see anything more explicit at this point but by 15 I probably would.

My 11 yo and 13 yo saw Good Will Hunting as their first R rated movie. We told them the language was bad and we do not condone it, but the language was nothing they hadn't heard before.

I was 10. We saw a horror movie that I didn't really want to see it but I liked going to the movies. My older sister (12 years old) persuaded our mother to take us. It gave me nightmares for weeks. I still don't like horror movies.

Anonymous wrote:I'm pretty laid back about stuff like this. I'm fine with my 14 year old seeing Rated-R movies as long as they aren't overly sexual of violent. Horror movies are ok, for example. He started playing rated M games fairly young because he had older brothers and sisters. I would not take a ten year old to see any rated R movie. That's just too young even by my admittedly relaxed standards.

Hopefully you don't allow your son's friends to play M games or watch the movies without asking the parents first. It really infuriates me when other parents don't ask me, since i'm the one left dealing with the consequences. (nightmares and/or refusing to sleep alone in my kids case)