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Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 9:40 am
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Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 5:12 pm
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Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 6:27 pm
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Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 7:40 pm
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Ozraptor Rebo socks rocks In my opinion, children should be able to read books that will make them question their beliefs. Screen the books for mature content, yes, but a little bit of doubt will not hurt anyone. What was the book anyway? Ooh, i forget, a Stephen King book. Something about these people moving into a town and one of them is a vampire and eats people. And sacrafices the children of the town. Ah, yes, 'Salem's Lot. In the book, the priest tries to combat the vampire, but his cross has no effect because he has lost his faith in God.
In any case, it's personal choice. Seeing as little kids shouldn't be reading a book like that anyway, its up to the parents to decide if their children should be exposed to a book that goes against what they may or may not have been brought up to believe.
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Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 8:05 am
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KuroFur Ozraptor Rebo socks rocks In my opinion, children should be able to read books that will make them question their beliefs. Screen the books for mature content, yes, but a little bit of doubt will not hurt anyone. What was the book anyway? Ooh, i forget, a Stephen King book. Something about these people moving into a town and one of them is a vampire and eats people. And sacrafices the children of the town.Ah, yes, 'Salem's Lot. In the book, the priest tries to combat the vampire, but his cross has no effect because he has lost his faith in God. In any case, it's personal choice. Seeing as little kids shouldn't be reading a book like that anyway, its up to the parents to decide if their children should be exposed to a book that goes against what they may or may not have been brought up to believe.
I suppose it depends on how little a child that we are talking about here. If they can handle the frightning aspects of the story then I don't see a problem.
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Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 12:41 pm
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Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 2:37 pm
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Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 4:50 pm
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Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 10:25 am
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Quote: To some extent I think we censor too much from children, calling things mature just because we are too uncomfortable due to a certain level of prudishness that is everywhere in American society. Not just America, but anywhere that believes in the family but doesn't have strong social bonds to back it up.
Yes, while children shouldn't be exposed to some things, the decision should be based on whether it will affect the child in a harmful way. Excessive violence and/horror should not be given to children who are squeemish or have a really strong sense of empathy (Like me, at 10. Saw a few scenes of Blood Sport or something and went ******** psycho when one bloke kept bashing another when he was helpless... Sure I could tell the difference between reality and fiction, but it didn't mean I wanted to see that kind of thing. Seeing sex in movies and the intertubez, on the other hand, didn't do a thing to me, hell, it might have even helped kill sexual urges).
The point is that parents should know what their children will react to and how, and should control exposure according to such knowledge, maybe with a little testing on something extra every now and then to see if they are 'growing up' or whatever.
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Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 6:01 pm
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Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 10:59 pm
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That's what I was saying, only less eloquently. A I gave with the example, I was really not good with violence as a kid,* but many I knew were fine, on the contrary however, sex didn't seem to affect me at all, and I know some people who seem squeemish about sex even aside from the expected levels of prudery here.
The parents should know what their child can handle. After seeing me run crying from the room during Blood Sport, my parents knew not to show me too much violence. Occasionally they would show me something a little stronger than what they would normally show me to see if I could handle it, or based on what movies or shows I had seen with friends and didn't break down.
I am not too fond of idolising parents, but that is one thing I know they did right in my case.
*(Not in that I would try to bash people, but I would get really upset at seeing someone suffer massive amounts of violence, something that is still the same with regards to animals. I can handle violence against people now, but you really don't want to show me something involving cruelty to animals. If you get bashed, it's only because you refused to turn it off after some really strong begging.)
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Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 3:33 am
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XWraith_LordX Gracchvs Quote: To some extent I think we censor too much from children, calling things mature just because we are too uncomfortable due to a certain level of prudishness that is everywhere in American society. The point is that parents should know what their children will react to and how, and should control exposure according to such knowledge, maybe with a little testing on something extra every now and then to see if they are 'growing up' or whatever. The decision should be affected by how mature they feel the child is and wether or not they can handle it. Age shouldn't be the only factor that goes into it. If the parents are worried about losing control over the child's development or the material having some adverse side effect, they should talk to the kid about it. If they're afraid that a child will start punching people because they might see it in a movie, they shouldn't hide away all the movies with violence in them. When the child can handle seeing it, let them see it, just make sure they know that it's not okay to hit people. You know... Since when have the parents needed to ask the child for advice on how to rear them?
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Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 3:48 am
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