To let DD watch Titanic

[SooticaTheWitchesCat]

She is 8 and is really interested in anything Titanic at the moment. She was watching the beginning of the film the other day but it was bed time so we turned it off.

She has asked if she can watch but I know it is a 12 rating. I think it is ok but DH thinks it isn't suitable.

Would you let a 8 year old watch it? I would watch with her, not leave to to watch alone.

DD (4) watched the music video yesterday and bawled her eyes out for about 10 mins. I had to calm.her down by telling her that the had their swim jackets on and it's ok, they can swim .

Hi my dd is 8 and we watched it yesterday. I taped it off channel 4 and it said it was pg.

Anyway she loved it. She cried afterwards though! Today she has asked loads of questions about what we would have done if we had been on the ship and asked me to look up true facts on the internet.

I hadn't watched it since I was a teen and bawled my eyes out! It was the musicians that got me!

Thanks everyone. I think I will let her watch then but I will keep an eye on her and if it seems too upsetting I will turn it off.

I will also try not to cry too much myself

I wouldn't personally, but then I'm a bit strict with kids and films

It's not so much the snogging that would bother me tbh, more the scenes with people getting shot and the floating frozen dead people (inc a baby)

A someone said, maybe better to watch a documentary about it

The saddest bit for me was when you saw the mother telling her children that the first class people have to get on the boats first, but that there would be a boat for them later - then you see her putting them to bed because she knows there's no hope. I'm welling up even now typing this, and think it would have traumatised me as a child! And the dead baby in the water was very harrowing too. I don't think I'd let a child under 11 or 12 watch the film to he honest, but not because of the sex or violence, just because it is really, really sad!