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Originally Posted by Girl
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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That's good, at some point we as parents have to guide our children into watching more maturer content and that will come and then sex ed all that stuff. Maybe some of the posters in here does not realize the amount of explicit content that are available freely on the internet and is easy to access. Their children is already accessing them without knowing. It isn't like anything in the past where all you see is partial nudity. Today you have access to extreme graphical content easily sometimes a miss search on google turns up some really obscene content. It's hard to explain to children what the depictions mean and they can take that image and it transpires to something else in their brain and changes their social development.
As a kid, I grew up seeing some kids watch adult content and develop this obsession with female body parts and this causes relationship problems for some. They can't communicate with girls without thinking about all the sexual stuff. Which is why some kids rush into sex when they get addicted to this stuff and their parents have no clue about how to restrict their access on mobile devices.
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