Parents: What rules do you have for what movies your kids can watch?

[wonderer99]

Probably gonna get flamed for this but I let my 13 year old daughter watch most stuff unless it's overtly sexual but only with me.

I had bad parents when I was growing up who simply didn't care what I watched. No policing at all. Every weekend I would buy vhs tapes of any rating with my pocket money. I swore as I got older I would be more responsible.

As my daughter got older I realised that so much of the stuff I was watching at 8, 9, 10 etc made an impact on me because of my age. Terminator, Aliens, 80s slashers. I can't imagine they would have had the same effect on me had I not been able to see them until the late 90s when I became an adult.

Movies have an effect on you as a child in a way that can't be replicated as an adult. Movie magic dissipates to a certain degree. So I have been slowly showing my daughter classics from the 70s and 80s, just not anything with sex in it. As a lot of fathers of girls her impending womanhood is something I dread.