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12 yo Daughter Watched American Horror Story (1 Viewer)

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She went over to her friend's house and watched the first 3 episodes on her friend's laptop. My wife watched the first ep and declared the series completely innappropriate for her. My wife is also going to call the friend's mother to say that our daughter isn't allowed to watch that kind of program. Needless to say, my daughter isn't getting a laptop of her own anytime soon.

Were we too easy or too harsh?

 
Insein said:
That show is awful. You're doing her a favor.
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Agreed.

But past that, I watch this show with my GF and sometimes I feel icky for watching it. The amount of sex talk is way over the top for a 12 year old. It's not just normal sex talk. It's every type of fetish or creepy thing that only FBGers do.

I think you handled it perfectly.

 
I'm not a parent, but it seems to me you should probably discuss with your daughter why its not appropriate. She's probably already seen far worse...

 
My sons daycare (not the teacher but one of the helpers) let them watch Batman (the one with Bane) that one of the kids brought in. I thought that was pretty inappropriate.

 
I was going to let my 6 year old walk home from the bus stop by herself, but now I'm afraid she'll watch this at a friends house instead of coming home?!?!?

 
Isn't the quasi-rape by the rubber man within the first three episodes of season 1? That is an extremely disturbing scene.

 
Heck, at that age, I was chillin' out with Pops (thats Grandpops), drinking Bourbon from the bottle and watched Electric Blue.

 
You know you handled it well, although it may be too late at this point. You can't unwatch what you've already experienced.

 
This reminds me of one of my parents worst parenting efforts -EVER.

Now, as backdrop, my mother NEVER took us to movies (my dad did all the time, but lived with mom). But when they did, wow, talk about doozies. For example, we were the four people who saw Ishtar. In theatres. Like wth?

Anyways... when I was 8, and my sister 7, we went to a fair / festivale. We won some plus toys, my sister loved her campy milar balloon, a nice family excursion. Until, for some godforsaken reason, a woman who would not feed us "any preservatives or unnatural ingredients" and didnt let me have play guns, decides it's a good idea to go to.... Poltergeist.

LIKE WHAT THE HELL, MOM? I'm 8, my sis is freakin' 7. So, we watch it, I'm scared / confused / enthralled, but there we sat, through the whole thing. Like not once did my mother think, maybe this is not right, especially for my daughter who had to be consoled as she ran out screaming from ET.

Story gets so much better. Because you know a 7 year old may have a tough time sleeping after, well, ####### Poltergeist. At 3 in the morning, there are 100% bloodcurdling screams. I mean, something just awful was happening in my sisters room down the hall.

Because, if you are going to take your young kids to Poltergeist, it might not be a good idea to give your daughter a helium filled milar ballon... that ever so slowly began to drift down... and up, and down... and up with the currents of A/C as the spooky light and shadows of the trees reflect off it's shiny exterior like a damn ghost.

Well done mom. And you wondered why she became weird.

 
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Parrothead said:
I saw the Exorcist when I was 10 or 11
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Same, do people think watching that stuff is going to permanently scar their kids, or do they simply want to avoid having to deal with any nightmares the kid might have? I can understand the latter, but I feel the former is overstated.

 
Koya said:
This reminds me of one of my parents worst parenting efforts -EVER.

Now, as backdrop, my mother NEVER took us to movies (my dad did all the time, but lived with mom). But when they did, wow, talk about doozies. For example, we were the four people who saw Ishtar. In theatres. Like wth?

Anyways... when I was 8, and my sister 7, we went to a fair / festivale. We won some plus toys, my sister loved her campy milar balloon, a nice family excursion. Until, for some godforsaken reason, a woman who would not feed us "any preservatives or unnatural ingredients" and didnt let me have play guns, decides it's a good idea to go to.... Poltergeist.

LIKE WHAT THE HELL, MOM? I'm 8, my sis is freakin' 7. So, we watch it, I'm scared / confused / enthralled, but there we sat, through the whole thing. Like not once did my mother think, maybe this is not right, especially for my daughter who had to be consoled as she ran out screaming from ET.

Story gets so much better. Because you know a 7 year old may have a tough time sleeping after, well, ####### Poltergeist. At 3 in the morning, there are 100% bloodcurdling screams. I mean, something just awful was happening in my sisters room down the hall.

Because, if you are going to take your young kids to Poltergeist, it might not be a good idea to give your daughter a helium filled milar ballon... that ever so slowly began to drift down... and up, and down... and up with the currents of A/C as the spooky light and shadows of the trees reflect off it's shiny exterior like a damn ghost.

Well done mom. And you wondered why she became weird.
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I had an experience with a milar balloon.

I got home from working the club around 3 am. I'm upstairs watching TV and my cat starts to get that look like she's seen a rat or something and gets crazy focused. Only she's staring down the stairwell about 6 feet off the ground. I pause the TV and I hear this slow, scraping noise. I start to freak out. I go to get up off the sofa to see what the noise is, when a huge shadow starts to appear on the stairs. The scraping gets louder and the cat gets in to her pounce mode. My heart was pounding.

That's when the milar balloon came into view. The A/C had begun moving it along the ceiling, scraping while it moved. It then moved over the light and cast the shadow. If that thing would have popped from the heat of the ceiling lamp, I'm pretty sure my heart would have popped too. Crazy scary.

 
Koya said:
This reminds me of one of my parents worst parenting efforts -EVER.

Now, as backdrop, my mother NEVER took us to movies (my dad did all the time, but lived with mom). But when they did, wow, talk about doozies. For example, we were the four people who saw Ishtar. In theatres. Like wth?

Anyways... when I was 8, and my sister 7, we went to a fair / festivale. We won some plus toys, my sister loved her campy milar balloon, a nice family excursion. Until, for some godforsaken reason, a woman who would not feed us "any preservatives or unnatural ingredients" and didnt let me have play guns, decides it's a good idea to go to.... Poltergeist.

LIKE WHAT THE HELL, MOM? I'm 8, my sis is freakin' 7. So, we watch it, I'm scared / confused / enthralled, but there we sat, through the whole thing. Like not once did my mother think, maybe this is not right, especially for my daughter who had to be consoled as she ran out screaming from ET.

Story gets so much better. Because you know a 7 year old may have a tough time sleeping after, well, ####### Poltergeist. At 3 in the morning, there are 100% bloodcurdling screams. I mean, something just awful was happening in my sisters room down the hall.

Because, if you are going to take your young kids to Poltergeist, it might not be a good idea to give your daughter a helium filled milar ballon... that ever so slowly began to drift down... and up, and down... and up with the currents of A/C as the spooky light and shadows of the trees reflect off it's shiny exterior like a damn ghost.

Well done mom. And you wondered why she became weird.
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my father took me and my brother (9 and 7 at the time) to see Aliens
 
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butcher boy said:
Parrothead said:
I saw the Exorcist when I was 10 or 11
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Same, do people think watching that stuff is going to permanently scar their kids, or do they simply want to avoid having to deal with any nightmares the kid might have? I can understand the latter, but I feel the former is overstated.
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I don't think it has anything to do with the "horror" part of it. It's not even scary. It's the sexual conversations they're having. I believe in the opening episode, they show a naked guy masturbating. Not really what I want my 12 year old daughter to see. Then add in fetish sex and rape. It's one thing to have the sex talk. I don't think we need to have the advanced sex talk....ever.

 
TheIronSheik said:
butcher boy said:
Parrothead said:
I saw the Exorcist when I was 10 or 11
Click to expand...
Same, do people think watching that stuff is going to permanently scar their kids, or do they simply want to avoid having to deal with any nightmares the kid might have? I can understand the latter, but I feel the former is overstated.
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I don't think it has anything to do with the "horror" part of it. It's not even scary. It's the sexual conversations they're having. I believe in the opening episode, they show a naked guy masturbating. Not really what I want my 12 year old daughter to see. Then add in fetish sex and rape. It's one thing to have the sex talk. I don't think we need to have the advanced sex talk....ever.
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Ok I get that, although I wasn't horribly scarred by seeing Linda Blair stab herself in her ###### with a crucifix when I was 11, and 12 year olds these days have probably already seen crazy pornographic stuff let alone stuff that is cleared for basic cable.

 
butcher boy said:
TheIronSheik said:
butcher boy said:
Parrothead said:
I saw the Exorcist when I was 10 or 11
Click to expand...
Same, do people think watching that stuff is going to permanently scar their kids, or do they simply want to avoid having to deal with any nightmares the kid might have? I can understand the latter, but I feel the former is overstated.
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I don't think it has anything to do with the "horror" part of it. It's not even scary. It's the sexual conversations they're having. I believe in the opening episode, they show a naked guy masturbating. Not really what I want my 12 year old daughter to see. Then add in fetish sex and rape. It's one thing to have the sex talk. I don't think we need to have the advanced sex talk....ever.
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Ok I get that, although I wasn't horribly scarred by seeing Linda Blair stab herself in her ###### with a crucifix when I was 11, and 12 year olds these days have probably already seen crazy pornographic stuff let alone stuff that is cleared for basic cable.
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I don't think every 12 year old has seen crazy stuff. And every kid is different. Just because it doesn't affect someone doesn't mean it's good for everyone. And again, it's not just normal basic cable sex. It's WAAAY past that.

 
TheIronSheik said:
Koya said:
This reminds me of one of my parents worst parenting efforts -EVER.

Now, as backdrop, my mother NEVER took us to movies (my dad did all the time, but lived with mom). But when they did, wow, talk about doozies. For example, we were the four people who saw Ishtar. In theatres. Like wth?

Anyways... when I was 8, and my sister 7, we went to a fair / festivale. We won some plus toys, my sister loved her campy milar balloon, a nice family excursion. Until, for some godforsaken reason, a woman who would not feed us "any preservatives or unnatural ingredients" and didnt let me have play guns, decides it's a good idea to go to.... Poltergeist.

LIKE WHAT THE HELL, MOM? I'm 8, my sis is freakin' 7. So, we watch it, I'm scared / confused / enthralled, but there we sat, through the whole thing. Like not once did my mother think, maybe this is not right, especially for my daughter who had to be consoled as she ran out screaming from ET.

Story gets so much better. Because you know a 7 year old may have a tough time sleeping after, well, ####### Poltergeist. At 3 in the morning, there are 100% bloodcurdling screams. I mean, something just awful was happening in my sisters room down the hall.

Because, if you are going to take your young kids to Poltergeist, it might not be a good idea to give your daughter a helium filled milar ballon... that ever so slowly began to drift down... and up, and down... and up with the currents of A/C as the spooky light and shadows of the trees reflect off it's shiny exterior like a damn ghost.

Well done mom. And you wondered why she became weird.
Click to expand...
I had an experience with a milar balloon.

I got home from working the club around 3 am. I'm upstairs watching TV and my cat starts to get that look like she's seen a rat or something and gets crazy focused. Only she's staring down the stairwell about 6 feet off the ground. I pause the TV and I hear this slow, scraping noise. I start to freak out. I go to get up off the sofa to see what the noise is, when a huge shadow starts to appear on the stairs. The scraping gets louder and the cat gets in to her pounce mode. My heart was pounding.

That's when the milar balloon came into view. The A/C had begun moving it along the ceiling, scraping while it moved. It then moved over the light and cast the shadow. If that thing would have popped from the heat of the ceiling lamp, I'm pretty sure my heart would have popped too. Crazy scary.
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I had one of these as well.

My parents were in Amway and would sometimes let my sister and I stay home alone until late in the evening. I was around 11 and my sister about 8 at the time.

We had an air circulation system in the house that consisted of a box fan in the wall in between our living room and den (classy!). One night we were watching a movie when I heard a loud thump in the den. We paused the movie, but didn't hear anything else and went back to the movie. After a minute we heard it again and both got a little freaked.

I went to my room and grabbed a baseball bat and we slowly crept through the house to the den. The best part was that to turn on the light in the den, you had to walk into the middle of the room and pull on the cord hanging from the ceiling fan. It was freaking pitch black down there and right as I started to come around the corner, there was another loud thump. I screamed, dropped the bat and we ran back to the living room.

I don't remember how I finally got up enough nerve. I think we grabbed a flashlight and this time I saw what was happening. A balloon had floated from the bedrooms all the way down to the den where the ceiling fan was on and the balloon was floating into the ceiling fan where it would get hit and make the thumping noise.

I was pretty freaked out by it, but we had a good laugh after we figured it out.

 
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