Is it okay to let 3 year old ds watch The Simpsons?

[LucyJones]

All opinions welcome

Hmmm not sure... it is a favourite in this house, but DS only got interested and 'got' the humour at age 10 or 11.

its neither tbh. if you feel okay with it, then its okay.

who cares what anyone else thinks.

I know he doesn't get most of the jokes etc.
I guess some of the violence on there might give him nightmares - the itchy and scratchy bits for example

Itchy and Scratchy give me nightmares!

and me

I let DS watch it if it's on, but I do change channel when Itchy and Scratchy come on if he's in the room. This is my sitting-on-the-fence compromise...

dd1 (7) loves it

I like that Lemonaid!! Is he 3 as well?

With the exception of Itchy and Scratchy there is nothing in the Simpsons that need be avoided I don't think, he just won't get it.

Now, is it OK to let my 20 week old watch it? He loves to watch all the bright colours with his daddy

I wouldn't want my 4 year old to see it

I'm a bit dubious about some of the subject matter though and have got more aware of it as dds got older.I like it myself though

my 7 and 4 year olds watching it right now (in Canada 5 hours behind). they love it and it's usually okay , I don't like it when homer and marge get smoochy tho'

think all 3-yr-olds should watch it, cultural enrichment.

No cause when DD was three she came out with the word "butthole" heard on The Simpsons

yeah, watch it with them

Depends on your individual LO - I let my nearly 4yo dd watch it but mainly because she very very rarely repeats things she hears on the tv so the language doesn't matter so much, and cartoon violence doesn't seem to phase her at all, she doesn't really get it, she thinks it's funny in the same way as Tom & Jerry.

May stop her watching it when she's a tiny bit older and a bit more impressionable tho. She only likes it for "the spiky baby" TBH!!!

My 2 used to watch it from very little, sort of ended up as a bed time routine, Get ready for bed, watch the Simpsons , go to bed. (that must make me sound like a terrible mum )
Things like Marge and Homer smooching just went right over their heads.
They still love it but we don't get Sky anymore

My DS is nearly 6 and watches it sometimes. Prefer him to watch more suitable progs but don't let him see it too often.

Not til 10/11 in my opinion, but I am incredibly strict about TV and films. Ds loves fruitshoots, though!

My kids love it -they are 5, 9 and 11. Only the 11 yr old really gets the jokes though!

Depends on the child I'd say. My DH occasionally used to watch it with the kids around. That was until DD1 (aged about 5 at the time) had weeks of nightmares after watching an episode when Homer had some sort of brain surgery

christywhisty - I do exactly the same!!! Simpsons finishes at 6.30, dd's bedtime, so she gets ready for bed and then watches that. Otherwise she'd be racing round and wouldn't be calm for bed, so I call it good parenting (I've tried a bedtime story but she won't sit still for it!).

I think it's one of the more suitable things to let kids watch. My 10-year old has wathed it for years, mostly doesn't get it but I feel it's the one aspect of mothering I'm doing well - nurturing a healthy appreciation of The Simpsons. My 2-year old will watch it if it's on. I'm fine with it.