What age should you stop watching scary films in front of a child?

[juicychops]

Me and dp sometimes watch a dvd in the day which is scary or 18 rated. ds is only 7 months so it wont affect him yet but what age should you stop them seeing scary things?

Not sure if this is entirely relevant, but when my son was about 5 months old, I was watching a video which showed a baby being born, with the noises from the baby's point of view if you see what I mean, ie noisy fast heartbeat, breathing sounds etc. My baby was playing on my lap quite happily but started to cry like mad when this bit came on! Made me realise they are aware of so much more than we may know.

Personally I would not watch anything scary / violent with any age child in the room. I don't think anyone is trying to make you feel bad or say that harm has been done, maybe just that it's not a great idea and perhaps keep it for when your son is in bed.

www - too right. We weren't even allowed to watch the rugby final! dd objected greatly. I think it will get interesting later, as we have a very large film collection much of which is 18 rated. At what age should they watch Clockwork Orange for example...
For now ds has to wait a while before he gets to see the Revenge of the Sith, and then he's going to get hidden behind the sofa for the bits we don't think he should see.
Have to say, a lot of this is because I don't like getting woken up if they have nightmares - oh, and because we wouldn't like a whole string of questions and comments during our favourite films!

"We weren't even allowed to watch the rugby final!"

That's shocking - I was 8months and 3 weeks pg with DS2 at the time, and DS1 watched in amazment as I jumped (literally) around the room squealing when we won

Strangely - my waters broke the next day.......I guess DS2 wanted to know what all the bouncy was for LOL.........although he didn't turn up until 5 days later.

Well QoQ, I exagerate slightly, as I did get to watch bits of it, and also jumped all over the place at the end - the children were most purplexed. But I had to fight for it!

bet you weren't nearly 9 months pg at the time LOL

Nope - I think there is a thread on avoiding induction going on at the moment - maybe you should suggest jumping and sqealling as an option!

btw - were you in labour for five days? I only ask as I had an early waters break and went 3 days before induction, so I'm interested to know.

no - waters broke on the Sunday morning (when walking into church ) was induced on the Wednesday and DS2 arrived on the Thursday lunchtime (VBAC)

So I wouldn't be much help to those trying to avoid an induction

Waters broke early with DS1 too (opening ceremony of the 2000 Olympic Games........I sense a pattern here LOL) - but had a CS 24hrs later (no contractions before hand)

Thanks QoQ, sounds quite similar to me, although I ended up with 2 c-sections. I think my uterus just wasn't made to push! I didn't think they let you hang on in there for over 3 days - they seemed to think that was the limit for me (I don't think I would have got going on my own though)

I've just noticed a spelling mistake in my last post, oh the shame

hi juicychops this is an interesting thread and would be a sin for me to say I have not done this at some point with my little ones. Everyone on this thread has a valid view point with their posts but also everyone lives a different life, so what you do may not be what someone else would do