OT:entertainment matures, parents don't

[Sugar_Nads]

LOL John, you wise ass... ; ) A bonfire it is!

[Sugar_Nads]

odinn7 wrote:

> I just don't want
> my daughter to have anything bad happen to her and I don't want
> her to see certain things until I think she's ready. I didn't
> picture myself being this way but having your own kid really
> changes things if you have any sense of responsibility.
>

Good for you odinn7... You'll be greatly rewarded one day for your perseverence.

[Master Blaster]

There's nobody "bringing it on" but you. I dont see any fighting here, just an informal discussion. If you get off on ripping into people like Rush Limbaugh on crack, by all means, do'nt let me tread on your "freedom of speech". Honestly I think you just enjoy being rude in an anonymous medium that has no consequences.

[Sugar_Nads]

I think you enjoy trying to be everybody's hero a bit too much. Tone it down ok, Mister Blister. ; )

I'm just shooti'n the breeze like you... No wars here dude... Geez, where's your sense of humor?

[Mr. Hockstatter]

When we start out as parents, we buy our kids stuff they ask for.  After a while, we see the huge piles of expensive, unused crap that they just HAD TO HAVE piled up in their closets to the point where there's barely room to put clothes in there anymore.

So sometimes we say no.

[Master Blaster]

All right, all right. Truce.

[Mr_Vindictive]

My wife and I have a great daughter who is almost two years old.  Obviously, being as she is so young, we try to shelter her from harsher television/films.  The main things that we let her watch are Noggin and PBSKids.  

As she gets older though, I do plan on letting her watch a wide variety of television/movies.  When she is about 8 or so, I'll probably start her on some Godzilla/Ray Harryhausen stuff.  When she gets to be 13-14, I'll let her watch most anything in my collection.  I have a feeling that by that age she should be deciding herself what she should/shouldn't watch.

My experiences were quite different as a child.  I was sheltered from most harsh content.  We only had an antenna (as I'm sure most of you did) until I was around 10 when we got cable.  The first real horror film that I saw was The Shining, which I saw right around the same time as getting cable.  I absolutely loved it.  

My parents never really watched horror films.  This led to me being scared to death of Michael Myers, Jason and Freddy as a young kid.  I had never seen any of the films but was scared just from the box art/posters/commercials.  I was a weird little kid.  

As years went by though, my viewing and reading choices eventually went towards the macabre.  I'm sure it was a result of being scared of such things as a young child.  I think it all depends on the child I believe.