DD(5) saw Jaws 3 on the telly recently and has bbeen nagging us ever since to let her watch it again.
She has been drawing sharks and we've got books fom the library both sotry and factual, but she really wants to see the fil again
It's not a jumpy film (compared with 1 & 2 which we will not let her watch) and she knows that the DVD's we have are all people pretending, so we are considering it.
On the flip side my friend let her DS(7) see Ironman with a friends and his parents. When my friend and I saw it afterwards she was horrified to see it was very violent and in places including a scene where a father is pulled away from his family and ordered to stand against a wall to be shot. And his parents thought the film was fine for the boys even though it was rated a 12 and they were only 7 - and I do disagree with it.
Do you think if a parent has seen a film and is confident in a childs ability to interpret it without becoming scared or upset etc then it should be up to the parent to make a judgement??