To let my 7 and almost 9 year old dd's watch this?

[justalittlelemondrizzle]

We're working through the Harry Potter films which they're loving so far. As am I. Next up is The Deathly Hallows p1. I haven't seen these ones but I hear they're much more grown up and dark than the others.
Would you reccommend I let the dd's watch this with me tonight or are they too young?

Of course they're not for home purposes LouBlue, they print the certification on the DVD for the fun of it! Stupid parents actually caring about what they are exposing their children to and when! What an idiotic way to bring up children.

I really don't know why people bother having children if they're going to try to protect them and introduce them to things at appropriate times. I mean how uncool is that?!

'sensitive child' More like a child that has been wrapped up in cotton wool and bubble wrap their whole life by their helicopter parent who convinces the world is all sunshine and rainbows!

Or

Maybe more like a child who has been brought up with age-appropriate games and films, rather than pushing them onto things 4 or 5 years above their age? Let children be children.

Lou- the child is 7. A 12 film is not suitable for a 7 year old at home or away. It would be a pg ie parental guidance otherwise

My 6 year old isn't overly sensitive, he's 6 years old and perfectly fine to be scareda no jump at stuff aimed for teenagers and above.

Lou is right. Film ratings constrain the people selling and renting films, not parents. Parents can make a free choice.

Parents can make a free choice. It's a shame so many make stupid free choices.

Oh yes because OP is planning on taping her child to her seat and forcing them to watch HP.
No, her children want to watch the film and if it's too scary or 'inappropriate' they can ask to switch it off or OP can choose to switch it off. It's not a big deal!

Lou is right. Film ratings constrain the people selling and renting films, not parents. Parents can make a free choice

Sadly that choice isn't always considered or well-informed. Unless you think watching 15s or 18s is okay for primary school children too.

Well you couldn't have the poor children not getting something they wanted could you. That would be uncool and you're cool.

I am far from cool.

But it is a parental choice.

Everything about parenting is a parental choice.

MMmm now I'm going to really throw the cat in with the pigeons and say depending on your child, yes you should let them. Personally I think it's important to allow children to experience fantasy whether it's dark or not as it often allows them to talk about issues they would not otherwise be able to along with learning the difference between real and make believe.

My older children were always allowed to watch Buffy from a young age, heck BBC 2 used to show it at 6pm on a week night, and there's as much or more "darkness" in that including death (when Joyce died for example), horror and even sex (Becoming) and rape(Seeing Red). But they knew it wasn't real, I would watch it with them and we would talk about any issues in age/development appropriate way.

Um, well, no, it isn't. Parents have legal obligations like everyone else. Whether or not they let their kids watch Harry Potter isn't covered by those, happily. It's a judgement call.

My son now 10 watched them all aged 7/8. He lives HP. We read a book and then watched the film over a couple of years. I think watching the films were easier having read the books first.

I think DH1 is very dark. DH2 is better as it all comes good. Loved characters die. The bit with the death eaters having dinner when the snake comes in is a bit much as is the torture scene. If in doubt watch it first and watch it with them. Otherwise defer it a bit. But not to long if they have seen all the rest Oh and watch it with them, definitely.

I'm a bit of a stickler for film ratings, however I have let my 8 year old watch them all. He loves HP and I was going to stop after the PG ones but he was begging me and I went over a few not nicer bits and said if he didn't like them we would switch it off. He wasn't phased at all by any of it. I have a 5 year old who is a lot more sensitive and gets upset at things very easily so she will have to be older before i'd be happy to let her watch them. She sees bits of the first 3 but not all.

I think with these it very much depends on the child. Lots of children in DS's class have seen them, I know of 1 who has said he doesn't want to carry on past PoA.

Yes it very much depends on the child. Also I would let DS (10) watch some 12s but not all. We avoid sex/innuendo/bad language. He loves a good story though. We have watched Lord of the rings (amazed at PG rating of first film) abd the hobbit and most of the avengers films. We have just watched the hunger games trilogy (he listened to the audio books first) and he loved them to.

Enjoy the films OP!

DS is a massive fan and has seen them all (he's 10). DDs are 6 and 4 and we've watched all up to and including Goblet. They want to keep going so have agreed will start Order of Phoenix and see how they get on. I wouldn't leave them watching on their own though.

My 7yo has seen them all. Its HP, not Hunger Games FFS

Hunger games also a 12.
I don't think that either Hunger games, Deathly Hallows P1 or P2, Half Blood Prince or The Woman in Black are suitable for 12 YO. Maybe mine are too impressionable, but the films are too 'real'.
Hell Boy etc clearly cartoon violence and much less disturbing.

It only shows that ratings don't mean shit.
HP is primary school age material, Hunger Games, Twilight -- more teen stuff.
Hellboy is very innocent.

I can't believe The Woman in Black is the same rating as bloody Harry Potter. That film scared me shitless! Although it was done so younger fans of Daniel Radcliffe could watch it .

I don't think a child needs to be 12 to watch the last 3 Harry Potters. I think that's quite OTT.

Dd saw woman in black when she was 16 she said she just wanted to crawl out of the cinema it was soo scary she said

I won't watch it I can't cope with psychological scary scares the bejjesus out of me

They really aren't meant for such young children - the first one is a lot of talking and not too much happening, and the second one has a LOT of death and violence in. They're great films but definitely a bit too grown up for a 5 year old!

Read them the books.