to be shocked at how many children appear to have watched squid game?

[PasstheBucket89]

I'm aware it's all over youtube and social media so some may have heard of it that, even roblox have made a game on it 🙄

but I've heard of quite a few kids actually watching it, some parents held there hands at not checking when i was like, erm you may want to stop them its very disturbing

but some are fairly unbothered about it, im mean like 8,9,10 year olds!!!

I've seen it, i really enjoyed it but I'm in my 30s,my kids are absolutely not allowed to see it,
i wonder how many kids in my eldest year have watched it, (Y8)

AIBU to be shocked by this??

@Loveshelly

It’s nothing like watching porn Get a grip Mary

Half of Netflix is light porn.

What shocks me is parents not using basic controls? Age restrictions on Netflix/Sky/Fire stick are easy to set up !
I see allowing children to watch violent films as form of neglect

I'm a parent who pays little heed to age ratings, but suicide squad is so depressingly bleak, so graphic and unnecessary that I don't want my daughters watching it. She wants to, and I fear I may HAVE to let her soon, lest she become a social pariah, and or see all the awful stuff via social media but without my being there to talk her through the deeper concepts, and mitigate any concerns or bloody random conclusions that young people do.

My y8 hasn't and won't be allowed and my y10 has watched it. I think it is a little grim, offers an interesting social commentary but overall, a bit slow and over-hyped.

Ds is in year 7.

I have watched a few episodes this week incase he asks about watching it. He won’t be watching it!

@BabbleBee I lost my shit at my ex when our son started having nightmares earlier this year and he told me he was scared of sirenhead....he is four!!!

I loved it but it's brutal.
My Dd is an adult now, but I'd say 15 really.
It's not even like it gets worse as such, it's right there in the first episode.

Not a chance! And it's not just the blood and guts either.
In fact I'm pretty tough but this was pretty hard veiwing.

I took my DC to a caravan park one Halloween and they had a children's Halloween party with fancy dress competition. The DC (around 8yo) who won was dressed as that scary clown from It! I was horrified!

@User135644
I agree! This is not porn.
Normal people was much more 😱 in my opinion

[quote HPandTheNeverEndingBedtime]@marshmallowswede I haven't watched it and won't be but I wouldn't say that it's obviously aimed at adults, the name and the image on Netflix is bright and looks 'fun' at first glance I thought it was a bit like Wipeout or the Floor is Lava show they had on last year.[/quote]
Yes exactly, the image looks like it's a fun programme for children and the title is quite childish as well. Like they want children to watch it!

My naughty little 9 year old tricked me into watching the first episode with him. I didn't cotton on until they all started getting shot towards the end. Tiny menace! I then googled it and told him no way will we be watching any more.

Good grief, my 13 year old asked and I said absolutely not! It's so disturbing.

Scummy parents let their kids watch violent, rapey shows, and always have and always will. You just know who not to talk to.

@Loveshelly

It’s mostly boring and not even that scary. I wouldn’t say it’s an 18 It’s a right of passage to watch that kind of thing as a youngster. It will do no harm.

@Loveshelly

It’s nothing like watching porn Get a grip Mary

Is that how you decide what your children can watch? As long as it's not porn? Or are you just winding us up?

off topic but what's sirenhead?

My 12yo dd is ‘the only person in the whole world’ who isn’t allowed to watch it, she claims.

Also there’s a scene where a woman takes something out of her vagina that’s she stuffed up there that’s wrapped in a condom.

If your underage kids are so worldly where a woman taking something out of her vagina that she has shoved up there is not a big deal then go do you…. You’re doing a great job parenting. 🙄.

I imagine a lot of parents got tricked into watching it with the kids or saying ok as it’s bright and colourful looking in some parts and it’s based around a kid’s games. But the clue is that it’s not for kids is that it’s not on Netflix kids.

Part of me wishes I had not watched it.

When did parenting become giving in to children like this? It’s insane. Just because xyz has seen it doesn’t make it okay.

There are parents on here who don't monitor their 11-year-old's phone/Internet usage because 'they deserve privacy', so not really surprised.

@MarshmallowSwede

Also there’s a scene where a woman takes something out of her vagina that’s she stuffed up there that’s wrapped in a condom.

If your underage kids are so worldly where a woman taking something out of her vagina that she has shoved up there is not a big deal then go do you…. You’re doing a great job parenting. 🙄.

Exactly. The themes in it are very adult. More so than IT for example - and I’m not saying that’s okay either but someone mentioned it upthread.

My 12 year old is so upset I’m not letting her and some of her friends are watching it with their parents? How can you watch violent graphic torture and killing and sex scenes and think it’s all hunky dory.
Apparently 2 kids in my DS’ year 5 class watch it and talk about it all the time. Why? Why would you want your kid to become desensitised to graphic gore and violence? Is it just because it seems the easy option at the time? Because they want them to grow up quickly? Enjoy the same programmes as them? Make them fit in with friends? Do they think this kind of viewing will do no harm?
Just honestly don’t get why you would a want to introduce your child to that? So confused

Dd11 (first year of high school) keeps asking as she's left out as all her friends are talking about it. Have they all actually seen it? I'd not be surprised tbh.