[Arkinsaw]

I'm in agreement with that. My kids are 8 and 11. I don't let them watch movies with violence (I did let my daughter finally see 'The Patriot' after much thought and with instructions to cover her eyes when instructed). They are actually pretty sheltered. But this is not gratuitous violence its reality.

[dsutah]

I don't know if they are unnesessarily sheltered. When I was younger, the movies had a lot of violence, but it wasn't as graphic as it is now. But one thing about "The Patriot"; is that although laced with graphic violence, there was no sex, and no nasty swear words! Of course, they didn't have nearly as nasty words in those days as there are now, at least not the same ones!

I always tried to shelter my kids the best way I could when they were too young to watch some things. In some movies and t.v. that were only a little bit scary or violent, I would watch them with them, and have them cover their eyes, or go out of the room. But with films and t.v. that were much more extreme, (violence, sex, language), they weren't allowed to watch at all.

[PFKEY]

I don't let them watch movies with violence...

A subject that has been of some concern to me ever since my now 4 y/o daughter started watching TV.

Although, my wife and I have somewhat limited most viewing to the cartoon network my daughter has watched several movies that she has decided she likes and has watched repreatedly.

She has seen a good deal of violence and at times concerned my wife and I for what we refered to as her 'blood lust'.

She seems to have a real good grasp on what is fiction and what is real. At this point everything on tv is fiction. It's all make beleive.

Examples of movies she has been enamored with at one time or another over the past couple years.

Indiana Jones. Star Wars. Home Alone. The Mummy.