At what age will you start to allow your kids to watch PG movies?
Is there a way to distinguish in PG movies that you will allow? How do you evaluation them?
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No idea. She's 4 now and we don't let her watch PG movies. Heck, she isn't allowed to watch some G movies. We'll see.
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I like this website:
It evaluates movies based on sex & nudity, violence & gore, and profanity. It also goes into explicit detail about the types of things in the movie that fall into those categories, so you can get an idea of why they rated it the way they did. I find it extremely helpful in determining what I allow my kids to see!
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My kids saw Zootopia which was a PG. I think Frozen is PG as well? So I guess they already watch them. I just read reviews and they can watch if it doesn't sound age inappropriate to us.
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@Adira: I'll have to check that site out too.
@autumnlove: Yes Frozen is PG.
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We've watched a bunch of PG movies. He's only 2.5 though, so I think a lot of stuff just goes over his head. If scenes in movies start bothering him, we'll scale back on it.
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@Adira: I like how that site gives a rating (1.3.1 or 2.4.2 were two movies I looked up both rated PG). Maybe DH and I can discuss and come up with a threshold that we are ok with right now unless we review and discuss.
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We've seen Frozen like 12,000 times. Sooo... now. Snow White is rated G and that movie scared the crap out of my kid, so I'm not sure how much stock you can really put in relying on ratings.
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@T.H.O.U.: Yeah, I like that it does that too! And that it describes what scenes cause those ratings, so you don't necessarily have to watch the movie beforehand to get a good idea on whether it might be too scary, too mature, too profane, etc.
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Finding Dory is PG and I didn't think there was anything in it to make it PG. LO loved it.
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@autumnlove: I HAD NO IDEA FROZEN WAS PG!!! I felt the need for the caps there....because that means I lied above. Haha.
I love Common Sense Media. It is a fantastic site.
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it depends on the movie rather than the rating
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I let him watch movies at my discretion and what I think is appropriate for him. I take into account his personality and what he is sensitive towards or scared of. He's seen Frozen, Zootopia, The Lego Movie (all PG) among many G rated movies. We took him to see the Jungle Book recently which is PG and I wouldn't recommend for kids his age but we were OK with it because he loves the animated version and the original live action one from 1942, he loves anything with animals and isn't easily scared by "scary" animals.
I try to watch them first so I know what to expect but I don't always have time for that.I think you just need to know your child and use common sense.
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We watch PG movies but I use this site to review the movie first http://www.pluggedinonline.com.
They really don't make G rated movies anymore.
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So as a follow up, how do you as a family or parents decide what is an appropriate movie?
Its coming up because I'm not sure I agree with DH about what is appropriate. He's just going off ratings (if she's seen Frozen which is PG why can't she see all PG movies). I feel like some movies with more violence/mature topics may still be PG but aren't appropriate for a 4/5 year old (Wreck it Ralph is the movie on debate).
Wreck it Ralph (PG)
Plugged In:
Kids-In-Mind
2.4.2 rating
Common Sense Media
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I need to watch it in advance, that is how I decide.
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@T.H.O.U.: This is something we struggle with. My husband watched horror movies from a young age, so he thinks H should be able to as well. I absolutely don't agree, have put my foot down, and we've had many fights about what is appropriate for our kids.
She's seen Frozen in its entirety, and has seen parts of Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, Minions, and probably a few others from school. I don't mind showing her Disney movies at this age (2.5) but we generally don't let her watch movies at home. The majority of what she sees is Paw Patrol and The Andy Griffith Show.
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I must be in the minority, but my 3.5 year old has been watching PG movies since....forever? I really don't see much of a difference between G and PG movies. And if something brings up a topic that we need to discuss, then we discuss it with him. But, that's never happened yet.
I will say, most of the time we've seen the movie before he has, but not 100% of the time.
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She's been watching them since she was 2. Frozen used to be her favorite. She just saw Finding Dory and The Secret Life of Pets. Cars is G rated and she loved it. Anastasia is G and we had to stop watching because she got scared.
We are not strict about ratings. We are probably way more lax about this than others. Hell, we watch Cleveland Brown together and that's not for kids.
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Like @mrsjazz: since about age 2 (he is 3 now). They are usually movies we have already seen so that we can make a judgement call on whether we will let LO watch them beforehand. I think I'd be okay with most PG movies, as long as I have seen them first and feel like he would be okay with it.
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@mrsjazz: Anastasia is SO SCARY! My 2.5 year old got completely freaked out by it and had nightmares about Rasputin for days.
We use our best judgement before letting DD watch anything and keep her fears in mind. She tends to get really freaked out by evil stepmothers for some reason (Tangled scared the poo out of her), so we will be skipping Snow White and Sleeping Beauty. Scary animals don't seem to bug her so Finding Nemo / Dory were absolutely fine for her. She has snuck into my room to watch Harry Potter when I had it on for me, so I will allow her to stay and fast-forward through the parts I think are too grown up for her.
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@caterw: I never realized how scary it was until I watched it again with her. Also, she loves Little Mermaid but we have to fast forward through the Ursula parts.
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@ValentineMommy: exactly this. If something bothers me, I turn it off and find an alternative thing to do or movie to watch. Anything we need to have a chat about, we do. I honestly don't have the time or energy to screen everything we watch, and they're not going to be shielded from this stuff forever. I'd rather talk about why something was bad or not ok to do or say, etc, than police her minimal exposure.
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Like others, I had no idea that Frozen was PG, so I guess she's been watching them since around age 2. She's almost 3 now and we are fairly loose with it (recently, she has watched Zootopia and Shrek, which are probably both a little mature for her, but she liked them). Ironically, the movies I don't like for her to watch are some of the classic Disney ones that actually are rated G (Bambi and Alice in Wonderland come to mind).
We haven't taken her to a theater though, so we just watch movies at home and if she gets bothered by a scene, I turn it off. So far, that works for us.
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@caterw: Randomly, a couple weeks after we saw Snow White, my LO announced to my husband "daddy, I don't ever want to have a step mother". I could not stop laughing. Damn straight little lady.
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A lot of our favorite Disney movies are actually rated PG! We usually watch first to make sure it's ok for the kids to see.
For new releases I check for parents' reviews online
https://www.commonsensemedia.org -
My son's favorite movie since before he was 2 was Happy Gilmore. He's now 4 and loves Ghostbusters. For us, it's about content. I'm more concerned with weapons and violence, I don't like him watching Power Rangers.
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We also use Common Sense Media. She's seen several PG movies like Frozen, Zootopia, Finding Dory and The Secret Life of Pets.
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So far she's only seen a handful of movies so it's not really come up, though watching movies from my own childhood as an adult in often shocked by how emotionally turbulent kids movies can be! My parents heavily monitored what I watched for a very very long time and DH's didn't monitor at all. I don't think I'll be quite as strict as my own parents but I definitely see DH and I running into issues down the road as he doesn't understand why anyone would tell their kids what they can and can't watch.
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DS is 2.5, and has seen several PG movies like Frozen, The Good Dinosaur, Zootopia,The Secret Life of Pets, and Finding Dory.
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