One parent said the influx of permission slips is getting “out of control” and “burdensome.”

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    It’s interesting. My mother-in-law isn’t what I’d call prudish, but she definitely restricted what her children could watch in terms of things like R-rated movies.

    My father, on the other hand, was a film historian who, despite that, didn’t really understand what movies were and were not appropriate for kids, which is why I saw Aliens in the theater when I was 9 years old.

    We spent a long time butting heads over how far I wanted to go with my own daughter in terms of age appropriateness vs. how far she wanted to go. I eventually won that battle when my daughter turned 12 and my wife realized that there was no way to hide the world of R-rated things from a 12-year-old with YouTube anyway.

    And that’s why my daughter’s favorite movie is now Forbidden Zone.