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04-07-2010, 08:32 PM
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My daughter Loves them (in secret) apparently they are too popular - but she is 14 - she read the books about 2 years ago...
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04-07-2010, 08:42 PM
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yes...all of mine have sseen them. They are 12, 16 and 18 and I do not see it as being much different then some movies that people allow their kids to see. I mean almost every Disney cartoon has someone who dies in it. Sometimes violently. There are lots of adult situations in Shrek movies and cursing. So Twilight to me does not have anything in it that is so bad for early tweens (10-12 stage Id say)
Oh and you would not believe some of hte movies I saw as a kid. I also think this should be judged as a per child basis. My daughter loves scary movies now. Always wanted to see them as a kid. She watched just a little bit of Tremors and was afraid that giant worms were going to jump out of the ground and eat her. She stopped eating seafood because of Finding Nemo. Cried when Mufasa died in Lion King. I mean really cried. Heck I did too the first time I saw it LOL. Some children are more suseptible to the scary fictional themes in movies and react badly to them. While others are ok. So while some kids might be ok at 8 or 9 with it others might struggle as 12 or 13.
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04-07-2010, 08:49 PM
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my daughters are way too young for this - oldest is 3
 - but i don't know what i'll do when they start wanting to see things like this ... when i was seven i went to see grease in the movie theater - saw it 7 times that year - LOVED LOVED LOVED it - walked around the house singing and pretending i was sandy - had NO idea what was going on as far as the adult themes! although that was a musical, so maybe it's different ... i was watching 'annie' the other day and thought it was way too adult for kids, to - but i loved that when i was young also ... i don't know ?!?!
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04-07-2010, 09:19 PM
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guess I am the oddball - my kids are 5 & 7 year old boys and an 11 year old girl, and they have seen both movies, Twilight & New Moon (on DVD). The boys were kinda tuning in, kinda not. They watch Vampire Diaries with me on TV, and used to watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer with me as well (I had a huge obsession with Buffy). They know it's not real, they know it's makeup & visual effects (thank goodness for a friend who does F/X makeup and has shown then before & after pictures!).
Jenna has read all four books ... she reads at a grade 8-9 level. I didn't take Jenna to watch Twilight with me in the theater (I didn't know my hubby was letting me go watch it when I did see it. lol), but she did come with me to watch New Moon for the first time. I probably won't take her for Eclipse or Breaking Dawn until I have seen them, just because I know the books are more "graphic" than the first two.
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04-07-2010, 10:03 PM
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My oldest (7) has seen bits and pieces of both of them when I've watched them at home but she didn't show much interest in them. I don't have a problem with her watching them as I'm sure she's seen worse on tv but so far she hasn't wanted to and that's just fine with me.
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04-07-2010, 09:18 PM
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Mine are 13 and 11 amd have seen it, but their mother(they're my stepkids) had no restrictions for them. I personally would not let them see it younger than age 11-12 or so,
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04-07-2010, 10:12 PM
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My daughter is 6 and isn't even close to being able to watch movies like Twilight. She is scared of the Wizard of Oz and Monster's Inc, so homicidal vampires wouldn't be a good idea at all for her. She loves Tinkerbell and Princesses still.
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04-07-2010, 11:02 PM
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I watched the first one- for curiosity sake.. but honestly, I don't think ce would be interested (he's 6 now)- it's kinda gay
 BUT.. like someone said .. I am one of those parents who let's my kid watch star wars, etc and he is fine with that stuff.. I think twilight was way more fluff and not so intense.
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04-07-2010, 11:04 PM
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ps.. lol as far as vampire movies go- Van helsing crosses the line for kids imo haha.. I was just watching it and ce wasn't allowed in the room.. Twilight if I could tolerate watching again/he was interested really seems harmless in comparison
^_^ and the two movies have the same rating-- so i guess it's all ap ersonal preference.
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04-08-2010, 01:59 AM
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04-08-2010, 03:54 AM
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DH went out and rented the movie since it was DD's wishlist. He was fine with with her watching it. I think its the biggest waste of time. Read the book though... so not for her yet
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04-08-2010, 09:44 AM
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Well, mine don't count because they're adults, but IMHO, I wouldn't let mine that young watch it Cindy. Mine always thought I was SO mean for not letting them watch certain things. We even fast forwarded scenes in Princess Bride when they were small because I knew it would be too intense for them. They make fun of me now for it, but I remember how sensitive they were.
I never ever went by the ratings though. There were many PG-13 movies that I still felt were inappropriate for 13....sometimes even when my son was 17 I didn't want him seeing some, but I've let them see a lot of R rated ones. I prefer some violence (when they are older) and swearing to so many sexual situations. I would almost always see the movie first, or read as many reviews on them. You know your own kids. Watch it first and then you'll know if you feel it would be too much. It would've been for my kids at age 7....maybe not so much at 10 or 11. Again...I never ever went by the ratings. I think they should just be rated on a scale for different things (violence, sex, language, drug use, etc...) but not give an age.
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04-08-2010, 09:58 AM
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That's why I love http://www.kids-in-mind.com/om for movie reviews
It spells out exactly what's in the film, and we can make the decisions based off that info. It often gets too nitpicky, but that's okay.
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04-08-2010, 01:06 PM
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04-08-2010, 03:04 PM
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Mine have no interest (6 & 4) but I wouldn't let her watch it even if she wanted to. iCarly is as far as I go.
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04-08-2010, 04:52 PM
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commonsensemedia.org is another pretty good site. I really like kidsinmind. I bookmarked that one!
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04-09-2010, 12:30 PM
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Nope I have not watched it.
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04-09-2010, 04:43 PM
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My kids have seen both Twilight and New Moon many times now and they are 6 (almost 7) and 9 and they love them. They are clean PG13 movies no different than Spiderman or Ironman or Fantastic Four or anything else. I am totally addicted I have read breaking dawn 6 times and Twilight 5 times and Eclipse 4 times and New Moon twice...lol...I am team Edward and my daughter (6) is team Jacob...she says he is hot, lol..and I will be viewing Eclipse and Breaking Dawn before my kids will view either movie, just as I did with Twilight and New Moon and they definitely haven't read the books and won't be anytime soon, lol
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