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I thought that this thread was going to be about kids watching hard-core pornography. It's amazing how many parents don't get that when they allow their child a smart-phone, they are able to access the full range of adult flicks. Many of my students will tell you that they have watched flicks since they were little kids. There are few restrictions put on them by any adults outside school. Frankly, I'm surprised that more of them choose NOT to watch porn on their phones. Apparently they find it as offensive as it is. Others though, will even try to watch it at school. From my conversations with the IT people downtown, so have the adults in the district. Our IT guys are my favorite department in the whole district, and they do a great job of keeping everyone out of the off-limits areas. I've only had to deal with it once since we got the internet and that was unintentional. There was a booby-trapped ad that a girl clicked on and I'm glad the picture that popped up wasn't worse than it was.
I thought that this thread was going to be about kids watching hard-core pornography. It's amazing how many parents don't get that when they allow their child a smart-phone, they are able to access the full range of adult flicks. Many of my students will tell you that they have watched flicks since they were little kids. There are few restrictions put on them by any adults outside school. Frankly, I'm surprised that more of them choose NOT to watch porn on their phones. Apparently they find it as offensive as it is. Others though, will even try to watch it at school. From my conversations with the IT people downtown, so have the adults in the district. Our IT guys are my favorite department in the whole district, and they do a great job of keeping everyone out of the off-limits areas. I've only had to deal with it once since we got the internet and that was unintentional. There was a booby-trapped ad that a girl clicked on and I'm glad the picture that popped up wasn't worse than it was.
My guess is most kids start watching hardcore porn at 8 or 9 yrs old nowadays. Back in my day (~15-20 yrs ago) we were lucky to see a boob on some scrambled channel or once in a blue moon someone might steal a Playboy.
Actually a lot of kids as young as 10 yrs old are watching adult flicks like Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, Walking Dead, True Blood, etc. These are primarily adult rated TV shows that starts at PG-13 for some and most of them are Rated R to NC-17 in some episodes.
They can catch it because it's accessible to them on the internet easily, while their parents are watching it on TV, the kids are watching it on their mobile devices.
While I watch many of these shows I was surprised to hear that many teenagers also watch the shows that features tons of blood, gore, and sex.
Are you parents aware of what your kids are watching?
Your title says teen. Your post says 10. 10 is not a teen. I let my 15 year old son watch whatever he likes but I do talk to him about what he watching. My older sons are 20, 18 and they are on their own for tv and movies.
I'm a bit appalled by many of the liberal thinking parents letting their teens watch whatever they want. Sure, if you think they are smart or mature enough to understand. The real problem is that these teens are still children and their brains are not done developing yet and we are exposing our kids to dangerous form of entertainment at an early age when they are not ready to discern what is really right or wrong, fantasy vs reality, and many movies set precedence on behavior.
Which is why many kids are experimenting with drugs and sex at a much earlier age than my generation. If you condone this behavior, then there's nothing else to talk about. It's how everyone else chooses how to raise their children.
They are a form of restriction since Rated R movies do not permit kids under 17 without parental consent. Video games that carry MA Ratings are not sold to minors directly unless someone is 18+.
I actually don't have much issues with teens watching Rated R films but video games is different, there are lots of games that offers more realism than movies. I play violent games all the time but I keep them away from my kids because I don't want them getting addicted to the act of harming people or doing offensive things portrayed in the games.
How old are your kids? I kept violent games from my kids when they were very young but now that they are a bit older I don't have that many restrictions on video games.
My older sons are adults (20, 18). I don't worry about what they play. My youngest is 15. I still keep on top of what he is doing but if he wanted a violent video game I would consider the request. He doesn't spend a lot of time playing video games.
I'm a bit appalled by many of the liberal thinking parents letting their teens watch whatever they want. Sure, if you think they are smart or mature enough to understand. The real problem is that these teens are still children and their brains are not done developing yet and we are exposing our kids to dangerous form of entertainment at an early age when they are not ready to discern what is really right or wrong, fantasy vs reality, and many movies set precedence on behavior.
Which is why many kids are experimenting with drugs and sex at a much earlier age than my generation. If you condone this behavior, then there's nothing else to talk about. It's how everyone else chooses how to raise their children.
Ah...no they arent. Teen drug use and sex are way down probably from your geneeratipn. Also....you dont know the politics of the parents that let there kids watch anything...and many liberal leaning parents do have rules and standards....we just don't let a flawed rating system make the choices for us.
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I'm a bit appalled by many of the liberal thinking parents letting their teens watch whatever they want. Sure, if you think they are smart or mature enough to understand. The real problem is that these teens are still children and their brains are not done developing yet and we are exposing our kids to dangerous form of entertainment at an early age when they are not ready to discern what is really right or wrong, fantasy vs reality, and many movies set precedence on behavior.
Which is why many kids are experimenting with drugs and sex at a much earlier age than my generation. If you condone this behavior, then there's nothing else to talk about. It's how everyone else chooses how to raise their children.
Kids today are not experimenting with sex at earlier ages than previous generations. Average age of first intercourse is around 17 and fewer kids are having sex before 15 compared with 1995.
As far as letting my kids watch whatever they want as teens it is easy to understand. I talk to my kids. I know what they watch. I participate in their lives. Since I participate in their lives I can tell if something they are watching is having an adverse effect on them.
Teens should be ready to start to discern right from wrong by the time they are teens. They can only do that if they have the chance.
Teens can certainly tell fantasy from reality.
Movies do not set precedence on behavior in our family. That's what parents are for. Letting teens watch what they want is not the same thing as leaving them to be raised by wolves.
Edited to add: I am not a liberal parent. I am very conservative. I believe that I have raised my children so that by the time they are teens they are competent to make some decisions for themselves.
I was watching rated R stuff around 12/13. If my parents restricted it, I'd go watch it at a friends house that didn't.
My parents were always the ones who got more upset about vulgarity in movies. Even now, she doesn't like seeing nudity on screen, they grew up in an era where it just didn't happen, or if it did, it was short like on Hair.
Somehow or another you have figured out that there's a difference between the real world and video game fantasy land world, why wouldn't your kids be capable of this?... one day they are going to see you playing these games that you're telling them they can't play because it's bad.... how do you see that scenario playing out?
Besides... they'll have friends and go over to their houses and be exposed to it no matter what you do, so you can't be naïve. Do yourself and your kids a favor... put down the video game controller and teach them some right/wrong in terms of video game violence.
You probably never took psychology in college and study brain development. Kids, teenagers do not have a fully developed brain. They are at risk to getting into addiction or altered realities if they are environmentally affected.
Actually a lot of kids as young as 10 yrs old are watching adult flicks like Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, Walking Dead, True Blood, etc. These are primarily adult rated TV shows that starts at PG-13 for some and most of them are Rated R to NC-17 in some episodes.
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Are you parents aware of what your kids are watching?
I'm fully aware of what my 10 and 11 year old kids are watching. So far they are pretty good at policing themselves or asking me first.
I have our DirecTV set up so that you need a input a passcode to watch anything rated R or higher. I also have a passcode set up so that DirecTV won't turn on until after the dinner hour so they can't watch TV after they get home from school.
They do have their electronics on which they can get Netflix, but the good thing about Netflix is that you can see "Recently Watched" titles, and if I see something wonky (such as when I saw "Orange is the New Black" pop up), all I have to do is confirm with my husband that HE was the watcher. 10 times out of 10 thus far, he has been. I have a parental control installed on all electronics so that inappropriate websites or content cannot be accessed - I get an email whenever prohibited access is attempted (so far it has not been).
Thankfully, when it comes to TV my kids are much more interested in Cartoon Network than "real" shows. Our Tivo is full of World of Gumball, Clarence, Pokémon and Adventure Time. The only non-cartoon show they watch is Doctor Who, with my blessing. They just don't have any interest in anything else right now. Oh - Wipeout. They LOVE Wipeout.
As for movies, if a movie is PG-13 they always ask me if they can watch it. I use kids-in-mind.com to determine if it's something acceptable for them to see. I mostly ignore the ratings and go straight KIM to find out the specific content. They've seen a couple rated R movies on TV that I thought they could handle, but I sat with them so that I could turn away from the channel if necessary (two movies that come to mind are Slumdog Millionaire and Aliens).
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