I am starting to wonder if I am old fashioned and out of date. To me, if a movie is classified M15+, then that is a movie that you do not send a child to see. Miss16 of course is pretty much old enough to watch M rated movies, but I still feel a responsibility to monitor mr10’s viewing. Depending on the subject matter, Tony and I will view an M movie at home, and decide on our own, if its suitable for Mr10 to see.   But a discussion today online made me wonder. I was ridiculed, because I felt that it was inappropriate for a 6 yr old to see Transformers 2 or Resident Evil. “My children are well adjusted … it does them no harm”. How can you know this when they aren’t grown up yet? They aren’t teenagers full of hormones, with an ability to aim a gun honed by years of playing violent games, and desensitised by adult rated violence viewed when they were children?
Adult games and movies have their place ….. when viewed by adults. Why tempt fate by allowing children to see adult material. Why abrogate our responsibility?
