--- kerry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Since there has been a discussion of children's
> issues lately, I wanted to
> vent about something else concerning kids. We went
> to see "Planet of the
> Apes" last weekend and there were people in the
> theater with their 2 and 3
> year old kids! I remember being afraid of the
> flying monkeys in "The Wizard
> of Oz" and these were 50X scarier! I just wonder
> how these movies affect
> young kids, who can't really separate reality from
> fantasy yet. When I was
> teaching, I could not believe the disgusting movies
> my kids had already seen
> at the age of 3 & 4. What are people thinking????
>
I've noticed this too and I find it, oh what the heck,
appalling as well. There's a reason why movies are
rated PG or PG13 or Adult Accompaniment or whatever
ratings are used from one country to the next. And
yet, so many of my kids' friends have seen stuff even
I wouldn't want to see. When my daughter was only 11
or 12, she said that a number of her friends had seen
a bunch of those slasher movies, with people being
disembowelled and so on. My own goofball husband (ha!
estranged and very strange soon-to-be ex-husband!) has
absolutely no sense this way. He used to rent videos
that HE wanted to see and sometimes he would say the
kids absolutely couldn't see it (talk about forbidden
fruit!); other times he'd say, "Oh, the kids can see
this" and I'd look at the blurb on the back that would
tell you how many "objectionable phrases" (someone
actually sits there and COUNTS them???) and how many
murders, beatings, rapes etc. occurred and I'd say,
"Are you NUTS? Did you READ this thing?"
Jeez, you don't need to overprotect them but some
people have absolutely NO clue about anything - people
should have to get a licence to have kids (I'd
probably have flunked but, oh well, that's the chance
you take when you make up your own draconian rules!)
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