At 17 she can buy a ticket to any movie she wants to see in the theater right? So yeah, she gets to choose her tv watching.

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Anonymous wrote:My 17 year old niece mentioned to me that her favorite show is Game of Thrones and when I asked how her parents felt about her watching, she responded that they don't care. My kids are a lot younger, so I'm not sure how I will feel when they are that age, but my instinctive reaction was surprise that her parents would let her watch a show that is basically light porn.

Would I allow my 17-year-old, who will be a legal adult in less than a year, and who will probably out of the house in the next year (if not earlier), and who has plenty of opportunities to watch this show anyway even if I don't allow her to, to watch this TV show?

Yes, I would.

+1. I don't watch this show. If my 17 year old was watching it, I might start, so we could talk about it. But I wouldn't put any restrictions on what a 17 year old can watch on TV, as long as it's legal.

I love got. I don't think it's great for a kid but if they want to I wouldn't stop them because Of the reasons others have said.

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Anonymous wrote:Well, your 17 year old is likely going to college in August. Can they watch it then? As PPs have mentioned, when kids are getting ready to be "launched" and are applying for and choosing college, it seems so much better to spend your last few FT parenting months spending time with them and discussing things than banning a TV show that they will either stream behind your back now, or as soon as you drop them off at college.

So should they be allowed to smoke pot at home as well? After all they'll be out of the house in a year and I won't be able to stop it then.

Well, pot is illegal, for one. There is no law against watching Game of Thrones.

Logic fail.

Ok. Then how about letting your 17 year old have their boyfriend spend the night? It's not illegal and they will be out of the house soon enough anyways where you won't be able to prevent it.

I would also let them do this if they were in a long-term committed relationship.

We don't get HBO, so not really an issue.

When we did get HBO (promo through the cable company) we (H and I) watched a few episodes because we'd both read the books and liked them. I stomached maybe 3 episodes before I couldn't handle seeing the violence portrayed on the tv.

That said, if we did still get HBO I'd let my 17 year old make her own decision on the show only tempered by the fact that we have one tv and you have to have a majority vote to watch a show if more than one person wants to watch tv. I recall my parents and their very strict approach to tv and how angry I was and how stupid I thought it was. And I binge watched tv in college because I was finally able to watch as much as I wanted when I wanted and what I wanted. (They forbid everything from MTV to the Simpsons and how much time, if at all I could watch tv up until the day I left for college at 19.)

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Anonymous wrote:To moms, would you watch it with your DS? I would allow it, but I would not be able to sit and watch it with him. I imagine he would feel the same way about watching it with his mom.

Not sure it's a gender thing. I'm 28 years old and felt super uncomfortable when I watched one episode with my mom (though we do talk about the major plot points together). Just too damn weird to be watching that much sex with a parent!

Yep. It's not right to watch that stuff with a parent. Weird.

Anonymous wrote:My 11 year old watches GOT.

That's just sad.

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Anonymous wrote:Well, your 17 year old is likely going to college in August. Can they watch it then? As PPs have mentioned, when kids are getting ready to be "launched" and are applying for and choosing college, it seems so much better to spend your last few FT parenting months spending time with them and discussing things than banning a TV show that they will either stream behind your back now, or as soon as you drop them off at college.

So should they be allowed to smoke pot at home as well? After all they'll be out of the house in a year and I won't be able to stop it then.

17 year olds can go to R-rated movies on their own legally.

17-year olds usually can't smoke pot without breaking the law.

Anonymous wrote:To moms, would you watch it with your DS? I would allow it, but I would not be able to sit and watch it with him. I imagine he would feel the same way about watching it with his mom.

Not sure it's a gender thing. I'm 28 years old and felt super uncomfortable when I watched one episode with my mom (though we do talk about the major plot points together). Just too damn weird to be watching that much sex with a parent!

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Anonymous wrote:To moms, would you watch it with your DS? I would allow it, but I would not be able to sit and watch it with him. I imagine he would feel the same way about watching it with his mom.

At an appropriate age, sure. I little squirming is good for them - also which things like this with your parents makes you consider them a little more then with you friends. Discomfort is not a bad thing sometimes.

No. I'm a mom of two boys and I just don't think I'll ever find it necessary to make them (or me) squirm through a show like that together.

I remember watching Officer and Gentleman with my dad and feeling absolutely mortified by the love making scenes in that movie because he was there. If possible, he was even more mortified than I was because I was there. We had never seen that movie before and neither of us were expecting those scenes. Ugh. No. Do not do that to your kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Well, your 17 year old is likely going to college in August. Can they watch it then? As PPs have mentioned, when kids are getting ready to be "launched" and are applying for and choosing college, it seems so much better to spend your last few FT parenting months spending time with them and discussing things than banning a TV show that they will either stream behind your back now, or as soon as you drop them off at college.

So should they be allowed to smoke pot at home as well? After all they'll be out of the house in a year and I won't be able to stop it then.

Well, pot is illegal, for one. There is no law against watching Game of Thrones.

Logic fail.

Ok. Then how about letting your 17 year old have their boyfriend spend the night? It's not illegal and they will be out of the house soon enough anyways where you won't be able to prevent it.

Not pp but I would if he was a "long" time boyfriend. My niece began dating this boy in HS who was 17 at the time. They had sex about a year later for the first time and are still dating - she is almost 17 now and he is 19. He has slept in her house and has come to my house as well with the whole family. Just this weekend they were over and I put them together in the same room without anyone else. Her mother was here as well, and so her grandmother and grandfather.

Yes of course. She will be going off to college in less than a year….

My 11 year old watches GOT.

Anonymous wrote:Ages 16, 17 or 18 and living under my roof, sure I'd allow it and not sure it would be realistic to try to enforce a contrary rule.

Ages 14, 15 - borderline on whether I'd allow it.

Below high school. No.

I remember my parents letting my 13 yo sister choose Clockwork Orange for family movie night (I was 15) - talk about uncomfortable, my mother bolted approx. 30 seconds into it, by father was a trooper and watched the whole movie with use and even discussed it.

Anonymous wrote:To moms, would you watch it with your DS? I would allow it, but I would not be able to sit and watch it with him. I imagine he would feel the same way about watching it with his mom.

At an appropriate age, sure. I little squirming is good for them - also which things like this with your parents makes you consider them a little more then with you friends. Discomfort is not a bad thing sometimes.