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Crappy parenting of the year award
We went to go see The Hunger Games last night. BTW, I loved it. It was a great adaptation of the book, I thought, and Jennifer Lawrence did an amazing job.
HOWEVER. We were walking out of the theater, and I saw at LEAST three families with kids 6 or under, and multiples of kids that were maybe 10. At a PG-13 movie about KIDS KILLING KIDS. One little guy said to his mom as we were walking past that the movie was "really scary."
Seriously? You think it'll be okay to take your 6 year old to a movie about kids killing kids? This is not Cars 2. Crappy parents of the year. Enjoy them waking up with nightmares for a few weeks.
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I am still stunned that my own parents made such a point of shielding me from sex in movies, but violence and bad language were fine. I remember for years thinking Dirty Dancing was like a porno or something b/c I wasn't allowed to watch it, but Tales from the Dark Side and Trilogy of Terror? Totally fine, apparently. And they wondered why I thought the mean lady next door was going to try to cook and eat me, or that her cat was going to crawl down my throat and burst out of my stomach horrifically.
As I see it, pretty much everyone will encounter a sexual situation of some kind one day. Not everyone will shoot a bunch of people/kill somebody for survival/blow up a car in a wild police chase. We don't WANT our kids to grow up to blow up cars, but most of us probably would like grandchildren someday. I don't see why this "violence=OK/sex and nudity=bad" thing is so common. Not that I think people should watch be watching the playboy channel with their kids, but really, seeing a butt is not the end of the world.
I haven't seen the movie, and I've only just started the first book; but I would certainly agree that 6 seems really young.
I do have a group of GIrl Guides who are 9-11 and it sounded like a lot of them were going to see the movie.
That was definitely not this showing. It was the 8:15pm showing, ending around 10:30. So late for a kid that age to be out anyway... even BETTER for bringing on the nightmares later.
Well that is just stupidity itself. An 8:15 showing? At 6 years old? No. Those parents were failing on more than just the content of the movie.
F**k no. Hell, there are some G things I don't think DD will be allowed to watch until she is in highschool.
We went to the movies Friday night and when we got out at 10pm we saw families with their babies/toddlers walking around and going to get food.
This happens all the time here. We have seen kids 3 and 4 years old in PG-13 and R rated movies and then when the kids start crying the parents shush them angrily.
Of course the kid is crying, we just saw someone's head get blown off!
Just got back, and b/c of this thread, I kept an eye open for young kids. There was a flipping toddler there! Not an "I'll sleep through the whole thing" infant, a toddler.
The girls next to me were about 9. The worst part is they didn't act scared. How are those violent video games working out for you?
Oh, and the dad of the girls said to them, as we were walking out, "I guess you can read the books now."
I'm even going to have nightmares from the tracker jackers. Unfortunately, I have a recurring dream that I'm stung and can't breathe. I have it pretty much every time I see/fear a wasp. My epi-pen doesn't work in my dream, so how would it work against a tracker jacker?
Really? This is what we're handwringing over? It's a movie based on YA fiction and dystopian/fantasy at that. Forgive me since I haven't read it but what's the difference between the Hunger Games and classic books/movies like Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, etc?
But what do I know? My kid recently started borrowing Goosebumps from the library. Clearly he's scarred for life.
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HG is kids killing kids. I don't mind kids reading it and if they're old enough to read it, they're old enough to see the movie. But it's part of a larger conversation - or at least it would be in my home. Taking a child to see a movie they have no interest in simply because the parent can't get a darn sitter? No.
The way you worded your sentance "fantasy/distopian at that" makes me read into it that you think that mitigates the fact that it's about killing kids. Not at all. Especially not at the age of the kids we are talking about (8-9).
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whoa. I haven't seen the movie, but based on the books, which I have read, there's no way I'd take kids that young to see it.
it reminds me of when my cousin told me that her husband took their three boys to see the new transformers movie over the summer. these kids are 7, 5 and 3!
it's certainly not the worst thing a parent can do to his/her kids, but I just can't think of any reason why small children should be exposed to that much violence.
I was reading an article the other day on the TV series "The Walking Dead" (love that show). Anyway, the author was bitching that they are putting a mini-comic series in Playboy about back-story of one of the new characters. She was irate as her 11 year old son loves the Walking Dead, but no way was she going to let him have a Playboy to read the comic, and the poor kid was crushed. One of the commenters rightfully pointed out that it was a little odd that she had no qualms about letting her son read/watch a horrifically violent and gory show where children get their heads blown off and men get dissected by zombies, but god forbid he see a naked woman on the pages on Playboy while reading it.
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If you're talking about the Bump sponsored ones, they're for moms to bring their babies (they're advertised as "breastfeeding friendly" and "crying babies allowed"). I don't think they're intended for children old enough to understand what's going on in the movie.
I so adore the mommy wars.
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Sh!t, I think our subscription to Playboy expired.