13 yo & Squid Games 3?

[Wreckinball]

My 13 yo tells me everyone in school is watching this new season. Perhaps to my shame I’d never heard of it or known they’d watched the other 2 seasons.
We’ve reached a truce where DH and I will watch it first off tonight to see if it’s appropriate, as I think it’s a 15 and quick review search indicates that it’s mindless violence and bad psychologically.
Do you let your DCs watch it?

Parents fail dc don’t they. Of course dc can go round to a friends house to watch it. To think my mum banned me from watching The Man from UNCLE! Laughable!

To think my mum banned me from watching The Man from UNCLE! Laughable!

So did mine! Iirc it was on the same evening as Captain Pugwash which was permitted.

Absolutely not.

@Barbadossunset Had to watch that at a friends house. No itv in ours.

Mine is 12 and DH said she could watch it. I said no but he’d already said yes. She was fine though. She also said all her friends had seen it.

It's honestly not even in the top twenty goriest programs I have seen.

@Iwillclasptheeagain Hmm. Is that something to boast about? Fairly horrible family position to take.

I am not boasting and I don't know what you mean by family position. I am not sitting down and watching Dexter or The Walking Dead with my children. Squid Game OTOH is not nearly as bloody, bar a couple of vivisection jumpscares. It is mostly lots of cartoonish shooting and over the top K-acting from the stuntmen playing the victims. I have watched it, though, not merely regurgitating the hand wringing I have seen about it on sites like this.

I’ve watched it. My 12 year old hasn’t because, you know, he’s 12.

It is also not as you describe and you’re critiquing it from an adult, experienced perspective. Your children can’t do that and that is why you are meant to protect and shield them from certain things until they can effectively understand, process and make informed choices about the content they consume.

I can’t actually believe someone allowed it because her lax husband said yes first. Lazy and irresponsible parenting.

No way. Squid Games is dark and stayed with me for a long time.

But why? What is she gaining from being desensitised to mindless violence?

Desensitising children to mindless violence is really going to help society. Maybe adults should also be thinking about their viewing habits and why watching mindless violence (usually predominantly male violence and women being sexually assaulted) is seen as entertainment

In general I don't think age ranges on content are exact rules... I remember as child watching films that were "too old" for me, like the Matrix, which went on to be one of my favorite films, and Alien, and being fine with both... equally I watched some PG/PG-13 type films, that messed me up and gave me nightmares for weeks (The Mummy... I couldn't sleep after seeing the scarab beetle stuff...)

So there is some individuality to it.

That being said, unless you are confident that your child is in the minority overlap of: A, children who are not going to be scared/impacted mentally by it, and B, Children who have a strong sense of morality that won't be impacted by it - then I wouldn't risk it.

It is hardly a borderline case, and the violence makes all of the more "adult" movies that I watched growing up seem tame and childish...

And you wonder why kids become immune to violent acts because they've been allowed to watch and see it so young they become numb to it.

Both my DSS’s (just 11 and nearly 13) have watched it. I’m a bit dismayed at it really as they are both young for their ages and its definitely not apropriafe for them at all.

Is that what some parents think? That children watching gore and horror is a sign of ‘intelligence’? I have often wondered why it is a boast

Iv just watched series 1 to see if let my 14 year old watch. For me its the shootings and seeing the blood and gore. Its a bit sick and twisted

My children are intelligent enough to distinguish between fact and fiction, and to know their own limits. My girl was in floods of tears over "The Pianist" and had to stop watching it after the balcony scene because it was real horrors that were being alluded to, though most of the atrocities took place off-screen. I would never suggest she watch the far more gut-wrenching "Come and See."

@Resetqueen you don't see anything wrong in an 11yo watching really violent films?

When I was 12 I remember watching child’s play and nightmare on elm street, along with many many more. You can’t shield them forever

Do people have the same relaxed attitude towards graphic porn and young children watching that?

And watching violence doesn’t necessarily make you a violent person, but can desensitise you to it, so it becomes the norm.

The amount of graphic violence shown in tv programmes just seems to be getting worse. Very few series where there is not some form of violence shown in much more graphic ways than it would have been shown 20 even 10 years ago.

What young child, so 6/7 is watching porn?