Would you watch a film rated 15/18 while your 6 and 3 year old were in the room playing?

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Would you put a film rated 15 or 18 on in the room while your young children were in there?

In this case, 6 year old DD and 3 year old DS, playing with toys and each other but obviously can hear and see the tv

Films weren't scary films but obviously completely inappropriate, and bad language etc.

My DP says I'm being ridiculous but this is just not acceptable in my view.

No way, I would not be able to hear the tv!🖥

No.

In school playgrounds you can see young children re-enacting scenes they have seen on tv etc. Your 6yo could do this, and depending what they were doing might result in a safeguarding chat from school

No way. I’m shocked that anyone would

No, I wouldn't. I had Journey to the Centre of the Earth on the other day, so fairly mild, but realised that my 3yo might get scared by the dinosaur or the peril of them falling or whatever. He made a comment about them being scared to make me realise.

They pick up on so much at that age, it's best not imo.

Absolutely not ! There will be sex violence or aggression and swearing to give it that age rating so why would you want your young children to see or hear that 🙄.

Not on the tv, no. My dh will watch films of those ratings on his tablet but ds doesn't see them at all and can't hear much either.

No. I did binge watch Peaky Blinders while settling into breastfeeding my first baby, but I wouldn't watch anything adult in nature once they are old enough to pick up anything.

I agree.

Absolutely not. And as a pp said, some kinds of 18-rated content would potentially be classed as abuse (showing children sexually explicit material is classed as abuse).

No way

Of course not.

It depends. I wouldn't be that bothered about language but probably would be less okay with violence or something scary.

Depends on the film but in general no I would not.

I am not in any way bothered about ‘bad language’ so that wouldn’t be something I’d worry about, if that was the reason it was pushed into an 18 for example.

And if your children started mirroring the bad language? How would you feel if you were pulled up at school/nursery to talk about the language your children were using?

Absolutely not! They sleep early enough to watch all the inappropriate stuff when they are in bed.

Under 1, possibly depending on what it was. Over 1, absolutely not.

Absolutely not.
They will be picking up on everything and possibly misinterpreting it as even worse.

Tell him to switch it off and go play with the kids!

The one time I would, is if I'd seen the film before, it's rating was because of one or two isolated scenes only, and those scenes wouldn't be shown. So say a film with one isolated sex scene.

We don't tend to have background tv on though, so if the tv is on with the kids, it's because either they are watching something or we are together.

No, that is really poor parenting. And as PP have mentioned, would count as a safeguarding issue regarding sexually - explicit content.

No way, it probably contains swear word, sex scenes or violence.

Definitely not

No. DH and I actually had this realisation that we probably shouldn't put Love Actually on with DD in the room because of the Joanna Page / Martin Freedman nudity/simulated sex scene. DD is 28 months and it's the first time we've gone 'oh, right, probably shouldn't have that on!'

No I wouldn't. He is being selfish.

No way and I'm pretty lax. Why isn't he engaging with the kids?

No, he's lazy and selfish. I bet this isn't the only area in which he cares only about himself.