Humor me....have your kids seen any of the Twilight.......

[sarahbhb]

My DD is 9 and I seriously doubt she would be interested even if I started to watch it.

[lovely1m]

I have a niece who is 12 and way into them. My kiddo is only 3 and a boy.

[digideb]

My bff's 2 dd's have seen both. They are 2 & 4. lol yes, they really have. The 4 year old told me on Sunday that she likes Jacob and thinks he's cute!

[Jengerbread88]

Originally Posted by digideb

My bff's 2 dd's have seen both. They are 2 & 4. lol yes, they really have. The 4 year old told me on Sunday that she likes Jacob and thinks he's cute!

I like Jacob and think he's cute, too. :P

[Jamies Creations]

Technically, DS has seen Twilight but, he's 2 so he hasn't 'seen' it, he wasn't old enough to reallt get it when it came out on DVD. However, we are begining to be more careful of what we let him see since he's taken to repeating anything we don't want him to! LOL

[Sheana]

My girls are 8 and almost 6 and they haven't seen them- and won't anytime soon. My oldest DD is interested in Twilight and says her friends have watched it.. all of her friends also watch Sponge Bob and have facebook accounts and we don't allow that either.

[Jengerbread88]

I don't have kids, but I tend to follow the ratings pretty closely, so if I *did* have kids, I'd probably say they should be 13. Just my opinion. Lol.

I've seen both films so far, and they can be a bit violent, and, the fourth book contains (married) sex; I'm not sure how much of a role it will play in the fourth/fifth movie (they are considering making the fourth book into TWO movies), but if you're not wanting that to be a part of viewing (in... 2011?), then you might not want to get anyone hooked now!

[breakingbrie]

My niece is 9 and she watched Twilight on dvd and liked it so much my sis took her to the movie theater to see New Moon. But she's recently started some afraid of the dark stuff (has to do with her dad having a new baby I think - she only does it on nights her mom is home, otherwise, she's just fine to go to bed at night!) and one of the things they're doing to try to discourage it is take away any movies that might not be appropriate, so she's not allowed to watch the New Moon dvd, or anything not directly targeted to her age.
My girls are only 4 1/2, and wouldn't have any interest, except they were in the room when I watched New Moon recently, and went nuts when they saw the wolves! lol, dogs are their fave thing in the world, so they actually ended up sitting with me and watching the rest. I did make them turn away a time or 2, I didn't want them to be afraid of the wolves in the movie. They just watched and had a hundred bajillions questions, like who the bad guys were, who was being mean, why the dogs were chasing/mad at so-and-so. stuff like that - they had no interest in the actual movie and had no idea what was really happening - kept asking when we'd see the doggies again lol.
I'm not sure how strict I'll be on movies as they get older... I suppose we'll figure it out as we go.

[nanienamou]

Well, my oldest will be 6 in two months and seriously, he wouldn't even be interested in that type of movie.

[cindys732003]

Okay, I'm not crazy then (ie too overprotective) Ashley's been totally bugging me about watching it (she's 7) because she says a lot of her friends from school have seen it. I was totally shocked......she's in Grade 1 !!! And most of her friends are still 6. Honestly I know that she probably wouldn't even like it if she started watching it, she gets scared easily, but wow, I was totally surprised that kids so young were watching it. Sigh....I miss the Disney princess days

I haven't read the books or seen the movies, but just from clips I have seen of them, I didn't think they were really meant for kids so young.

[glumirk]

I wouldn't say that they are scarier than Harry Potter, but that deep of a love story seems a bit too mature of a theme for such young kids (imo). I'd probably stick to the PG-13 rating if I had the choice (granted I've got an 8 month old boy...so this won't be a problem for awhile yet). If it makes any difference, I wasn't allowed to watch Jurrassic Park when it came out (I think I was about Ashley's age), and I wasn't scarred for life, even though all of my other friends saw it.

[KirstieGai]

Originally Posted by glumirk

I wouldn't say that they are scarier than Harry Potter, but that deep of a love story seems a bit too mature of a theme for such young kids (imo). I'd probably stick to the PG-13 rating if I had the choice (granted I've got an 8 month old boy...so this won't be a problem for awhile yet). If it makes any difference, I wasn't allowed to watch Jurrassic Park when it came out (I think I was about Ashley's age), and I wasn't scarred for life, even though all of my other friends saw it.

I think Harry Potter is way scarier and all my kids have seen all of them (aged 7, 4 and 3) and love them.

[Sarah8914]

I didn't know where you were going with this... but yeah, I wouldn't let my children see it. I have read the books but haven't seen the movies and it's totally NOT for kids. Nothing in the story line is aimed for little ones. I think it's aimed for young adults--which to me, isn't even early teens. Actually, I don't even watch many pg-13 myself so I probably wouldn't even let my 13 year old see it (if I had one...)

I can't believe she is saying kids at school are watching it! They're so young. Maybe they have older siblings and watch it with them?