When our children were young we watched Parent Trap with Maureen O'Hara and Brian Keith. At the end of the movie, they kissed in the kitchen.
We then watch a John Wayne movie with Maureen O'Hara and she was kissed by John Wayne. Our son was horrified! I think he was 6 or 7 years old. When he saw John Wayne kiss Maureen, he said, "Isn't she already married?!!!" He almost started crying.
So, that got me to thinking. All of these actors and actresses are married in real life to someone else, yet they share some intimacy on screen. Would that be considered adultery in God's eyes? Are we supporting this by watching and buying their movies?
This is the post I was referring to Hoovie.
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My Mennonite family and friends (at least some of them) would agree with that thought. We are teaching our children the value of stage acting and drama from an early age, but I can see for some children it may be an issue.
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My Mennonite family and friends (at least some of them) would agree with that thought. We are teaching our children the value of stage acting and drama from an early age, but I can see for some children it may be an issue.
You drama people have no sense of what sin is. LOL
My wife and daughter love drama and the stage. Cody and I we mostly endure it and we pretend we are enduring it even when we like it.
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Ok here is evidence of my bad parenting, my daughters post on Facebook this evening:
WWE RAW♥ Aha. I'm just that kinda girl, hanging with my friends watching chick flicks, then when I get home I turn on the tv and watch wrestling John Cena, The Miz, Bret "The Hitman" Heart, and EDGE (Rated R Superstar) Yeahhh Buddyyyy
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I agree. For very young children, though, the material is still going to only offer stimulation. Ergo, I wouldn't hand my 3 year old nephew a Life Magazine with WWII pictures of death and destruction or even naked natives. Some things are educational and relatively inoffensive, but they're intended for mature readers or viewers.
Good post. Like Passion of the Christ, for instance. To expose a child to that much violence and human suffering is incredibly irresponsible in my opinion, but I know those who did. What's the right age? I don't really know.
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watched this movie called Trick or Treat, kind of a campy/goofy/scary flick. Noone seemed to mind the violence, but one scene where this woman becomes a werewolf and showed some skin and it was like "fast forward this stuff" from the women, but the one who complained the most about it was the married guy.
Now that was a good movie. Not too often you get a horror-ish type movie that has some laughs in it.
My family has always drawn the line at R rated movies. We don't watch anything past PG-13. The only exception has been "The Passion of the Christ". There are some really good movies that I would like to see that I'm sure are only "R" because of violence, but that is just a line that we've drawn and so we hold to it. It keeps us from getting in compromising situations with movies.
That has been our line, as well, Sherri. We were even more restrictive until our children were sixteen and above. We had a blocking device called TV-G, that blocked out objectionable language as well. It doesn't work with digital, so we try to review movies on line before watching. I believe there is a new TV-G out just recently that is digital, I highly recommend it, it worked great. It blocks bad words, and substitutes a acceptable word as a caption. I really hate the foul language, it is just not necessary at all.
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John Cena, The Miz, Bret "The Hitman" Heart, and EDGE (Rated R Superstar) 
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