Would you let your kid watch this?

[EverythingsCominUpMilhouse]

Are there any films / Tv shows that you grew up watching that you wouldn't want your child to watch? And if so, why?

E.g. Disney films like Snow White, Sleeping Beauty - she needed a man to save her and couldn't save herself. Also, in Snow White, the "bad woman" was ugly and the "good woman" was pretty.

Or do you think this is overthinking it and will go over a child's head?

I let DD watch waay more than I was ever allowed to watch. I missed out on so much as it was deemed 'rubbish'. She just watched it with an annoying sound track if me criticising everything. She has always complained and told me to be quiet, but now she is so very aware of stereotypes and gender inequalities.

When we read sleeping beauty (which was a favoured board book of hers) the princess woke up and slapped the prince around the face 😳
Films they watched (although I don't think they've ever watched Snow White) with a commentary and discussion. I also made sure they watched some of the newer ones with princess heroes.
Our tv was very limited growing up and I felt I missed out on a lot, so in comparison I'm very lenient. I have started to get a bit stricter about YouTube though.

Nope, I’m the opposite - I allow classics and things I’ve watched as a child.
I’ve banned most stuff created after 2012 and anything with tedious “right on” messages.

I let mine watch whatever but the old Disney films can’t hold her attention in the way Frozen/Encanto/Tangled can.

No nothing specific. sleeping beauty did get the commentary "if her parents had only told her to stay away from needles everything could be avoided". I think the evil queen is also pretty beautiful (in her natural state). Its good to watch these things to experience cultural history.

I would censor frozen 2 if I had a kid nowadays. That is awful.

I grew up watching Snow White, Sleeping Beauty etc and turned out alright! I'm an independent woman so I don't think watching a few classics is going to ruin my dd!

I let my dd make her own choices as long as age appropriate. I wasn’t allowed to watch stuff deemed rubbish as a child. It really wouldn’t have harmed me to watch tizwas. 🙄

I wouldn't censor but I would mix in the more modern, fiesty Disney princesses (Mulan, Merida etc)

Watership down. It is NOT a cute kid's film, it's fucking terrifying.

I think your over reacting. mine watch all the Disney films.

I watched gogglesprogs with my D's the other day and the kids watched grease. It was so funny watching them commentate on it. They said, so the moral of the story is change who you are completely to get the guy? That's a terrible idea.

Kids are smart! (Although one kid said about one of the songs that he didn't think it'd stand the test of time. Bless)

Persoanlly i think censoring things with outdated messages is a dangerous path to go down. Watch them but then have an age appropriate chat about how things have changed.

Overthinking.

Why censor Frozen 2?

Overthinking

Overthinking 100%.

I let my children watch anything (age appropriate) and we discuss anything that is 'of it's time'.

I watched all the old classic Disney films as a child and it never created the idea in my mind that women needed saving by a man or that beautiful was good and ugly was bad. I was influenced by the whole world not a few Disney films. My DD was allowed to see these films and we enjoyed them together. I've always made it clear to her that women should be valued for qualities other than beauty.

A lot of todays tv and films are too frantic. The youth of today can hardly concentrate on anything for more than a few minutes.

Probably not going to let her watch Rolf Harris or Jimmy Saville tbh

You're massively overthinking. They are fairytales, not supposed to be real.
There is far more harmful stuff online that kids are able to access nowadays, that's what you should be concerned about

The evil Queen in snow white is not ugly though 🤔. She's the second fairest in the land isn't she?

I was a youngish teen when the film cane out and had already read the book so I was keen to see it. But I rembember being so annoyed because the cinema was full of little kids who had been brought by their parents who presumably had seen the video "Bright Eyes" and thought "Oh cartoon about rabbit. That'll do."

This was back in the day when you had a support film and usherettes who were meant to keep order and sell ice cream in the interval. The support was some deadly dull documentary about building a Maori canoe, but the usherettes were assiduous at keeping order and silencing the bored murmurings.

However when the main feature started they just seem to give up and leave everyone to it. So many bored, bewildered and wailing infants you could hardly hear a thing.

This was also before the age when the cinema soundtrack is played loud to deafen out people chewing, slurping and talking because people were expected to be able to sit still and listen for 2 hours without constantly stuffing their face.

In answer to OP though, no I can't think of anything I would or did ban my DD from watching and, despite watching many Disney "princess" movies in her childhood, she has grown up to be a smart, independent minded young woman. So I too think you are over thinking it

I didn't ban things on those grounds no. I do remember chatting to DD that Lucy going off to Mr Tumnus' house for tea was a particularly stupid thing to do but she actually had already figured that out. I think it can be a helpful way into some discussions. She watches Friends and totally gets it when the dated views on homosexuality are on display.

Try watching Ghostbusters (unedited version) and Splash! now. Wow the 80s were wild, all went over my head at the time though.