Children are exposed to violent media far too early.

[MrsPreston11]

Do you agree?

I find even many of the kids cartoons inappropriate. (I'm looking at you, Teen Titans)

But then I see people saying they're taking a 3 year old to see infinity War and worry about what kids are getting exposed to.

I think people confuse 'seems to enjoy' with 'not being harmed'.

I don't know Teen Titans but I think cartoons are less obviously real and so less of a risk. Whereas films and games have 12 or 15 ratings for a reason and letting infant school children watch 12 rated films (e.g. the later Harry Potter films) is in my opinion inappropriate.

No. I haven't seen anything that compares with the levels of malevolent violence as say, Tom and Jerry in current kids programmes.

Yes I agree. And don't get me started on those who feel video games classified as 18 are fine for their 10 year old

TAT - so will go poof soon

but Tom and Jerry never did me any lasting damage - ditto The Pink Panther films (not now Kato !)

My dc love Tom and Jerry - the modern episodes I don't mind but the older ones make me shudder, particularly when Tom gets his teeth smashed out which seems to happen every episode!

I'm not sure about infinity war though, I haven't seen it. That might be a bit much.

No, not all children. DS (3) has never seen anything like that - it's not compulsory lol!

Yes TAAT but the OP of that thread said not to discuss it there and people clearly want to.

Tom.and.Jerry.Looney.Toons both wildly racist and violent YABU

Far worse on the news.

Far worse on the news

Well yes. Which is why the news isn't really suitable for younger children, hence why Newsround was invented!

Yes the news is bad. So my children don't see it.

Teen Titans is an off the wall silly show with characters so innocent that when Santa gives them coal for Christmas, they are over-joyed to receive it and the most evil act any of them can think of is drinking milk directly from the carton. Every Tom and Jerry cartoon saw both of them commit acts of obscene violence, Wily Coyote regularly tried to bomb the Road Runner, the Looney Toons were all about gun violence and explosives. Cop on to yourself Mary Whitehouse.

I was watching Toy Story with DGC a while ago and found the way the 'nasty' child dissected and treated his toy quite chilling. Seeing them all dragging and limping along just seemed so nasty.

I was told that it all comes right in the end and that the children won't see it the way I did.

All I was thinking was he seemed like a psychopath in the making.

Not right at all. Sid had no idea toys were sentient. He was just a creative kid who rearranged bits of plastic into objects he found more interesting than factory clones.

I love Teen Titans.

Very violent films and games, not so much.

Yes, but he was also unpleasant with it.

I do agree 100%. My DS1 is 5 and has only just started to watch star wars and I think he has seen one of the transformers films with his dad.
We watched Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone on Saturday and he was found some of it quite scary (the dark forest, the troll, dead unicorn voldemort in the back of a head and as a ghost thing)
We take them one by one and he never watches them alone. He was petrified by Jurassic park so we don't watch that one lol.

I actually interfered once, DH and myself went to see deadpool. there's was a grandma and a dad taking in a child no more than about 6/7. I said to DH I need to tell them, I need to make sure that they underatand what they are about to watch.
Both adults looked at me blankly as I tried to explain thatvthis was not a standard superhero movie, that there would be graphic violence sex scenes and vile language.

They sat through the whole thing with this kid and let him watch!