What age do you let your kids watch R-rated movies? (children, 10 year old)
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Alright Mattie I've got to give you some credit. You might not be particularly in favor of youth rights but you aren't against younger people seeing R movies. I have to agree, they have the right, according to the constitution, to see such movies if they want to.
Exactly where in the Constitution does one have the right to see a movie?
I was a child of the eighties and I was watching R rated movies when I was really little. I must have been 7 when I watched Porkeys and Children of the Corn. My sister and I were left home alone a lot so we had a lot of freedom to watch whatever we wanted to. I definitely think we were too young to watch these types of movies but I don't think it permanently damaged us.
As for my own kids, I don't have have a set age it depends more on the content of the movie.
I undid the parental lock on my daughter's tv in her room when she was 15 so I'm sure she was watching R rated movies. I think by that age most kids have seen way worse stuff on the internet anyway.
You are terribly naive to think the media plays a small part in the thinking of people. Kids are messed up because of bad ideas that are generated through the media, as well as from their naive parents that don't teach them the correct way to live.
It is much more than entertainment.
Specific examples?
Parents have far more influence on their kids than Hollywood.
Since you think I'm naive, my kids must be messed up, right? Except, they aren't. They are adventurous, have good senses of humor, and a lot of curiosity about the world. Some of that just might be attributed to the media they've seen.
eta: the youngest two don't even have tvs now. They have found more interesting forms of entertainment.
It does play a small part. A child is more influenced by their family and peers than they are by idiots on tv. Kids are no more messed up today than they were thirty years ago. You have some good kids, and some bad ones.
They are when parents aren't there to correct it. For example, my mother hated The Simpsons when I was growing up. It wasn't over cartoon violence nor was it over the use of curse words (very tame as oppose to say Family Guy, American Dad and South Park.) No, it was over Bart calling his father Homer, Homer rather than dad, daddy, pa, father, etc. My mother was able to correct that by saying, "don't do that." If the parents have no problem with kids wrestling or playing Power Rangers or Ninja Turtles then they shouldn't complain when little Johnny breaks his arm. If parents don't say Superman isn't real, Joey isn't going to become paralyzed after tying a bedsheet around his neck like a cape and jumping off the roof. If a kid isn't told not to play with fire after watching the Beevis and Butthead episode where they lit everything on fire, the show shouldn't be blamed for it. It's the parents for not being good filters whether it is work or private life.
My oldest is almost 11 and has never seen a rated R movie, or a PG-13 movie for that matter. I don't see any advantages to exposing them to adult themes at such a young age. The rating and age guidelines are there for a reason.
Parents have far more influence on their kids than Hollywood.
Since you think I'm naive, my kids must be messed up, right? Except, they aren't. They are adventurous, have good senses of humor, and a lot of curiosity about the world. Some of that just might be attributed to the media they've seen.
eta: the youngest two don't even have tvs now. They have found more interesting forms of entertainment.
I agree with you in that parents are the much greater influence on their kids than Hollywood. But by letting kids watch adult content, parents are essentially condoning it and sending the message that such content is OK. So even if they don't see or hear their parents doing those things in the movies, they are still modeling that behavior as being acceptable.
I'm not sure if my parents ever really "allowed" it but my sister, cousins and I would rent them at the store down the street from my grandparents' house and watch them over there. My grandma would be hanging out in the kitchen and my grandpa either napping or out visiting neighbors or we'd just go upstairs and watch them, so I'm not sure if they really knew what we were watching. That probably began at around age 9 or 10. These were Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elmstreet and Halloween type movies.
I'll admit they did sort of traumatize me to a degree. I'd go to bed terrified, have disturbing thoughts and nightmares. I quit watching the slasher films probably by the time I was a teenager because I knew the effect they had on me as a sensitive kid.
I certainly wouldn't introduce them to a kid, but if they ask to watch I'd make sure they were mature enough. Or I'd say no.
My 11 year old has watched some PG-13 movies for a couple of years now. I don't see R-rated on his radar any time soon, although I agree I wouldn't care nearly as much about something like Good Will Hunting. I will definitely say yes sooner to language or nudity than I would to violent content.
At Grandma's house... never... even if you are well into adulthood.
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