[quote name='Speschal K']I've never given feedback for the CAGcast so I have to start out by thanking you guys for making such an entertaining discussion about video games and other nerdly things.
I've been listening on and off for over a year now, so this may have come up before. As someone who is getting married in a month and wants to start a family within the next few years, your discussions about exposing your kids to movies and video games always has me thinking about what I'm going to be doing when I'm the parent.
I'm hoping that my question does not come across as criticism of your parenting styles but more to start a discussion as to the how's and why's of exposing media to our children. So here's the question: what makes you constantly question the things your children are exposed to, when you most likely were not raised this same way? Unless you feel you were brought up poorly, you are most likely going to agree that you turned out alright and were exposed to far worse things than the Avengers and Looney Tunes. I remember it coming up several times on past CAGcasts, but the only other example I specifically recall was Cheapy playing Skyrim with his son.
When I was a child, my parents were either extremely liberal or oblivious to the things I was being exposed to. I was playing Mortal Kombat by age 7 and watching Rated R movies like Scream by age 10, and feel like I turned out generally fine.
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Bolded: Well I want to say Sabrina isn't even 3. Do you remember anything from age 2 or 3? I think that age is perfectly fine to be over-protective, so the kid isn't traumatized. If your question was meant for the future as they raise them, then it really depends on Cheapy/Wombat. Who I think were both raised in a Jewish family.
Well first thing first, the internet didn't exist way back then, so there should be much more fear of exposure now.
How would you compare Mortal Kombat on SNES VS the new Mortal Kombat on Xbox/PS3? Huge difference. Even newer rated R movies are more gruesome and bloody. Scream is really tame in today's standards.
Cheapy letting his son see the live action The Avengers seems rather questionable, since I'm sure it's a PG-13 movie with some violence or subject matter that anyone under 5 may be too young. Cartoons are one thing, but I've never seen the newer super hero cartoons which Cheapy always mentions they are pretty violent.
My parents wouldn't let me watch The Simpsons when I was a kid, but when we were at the babysitters? Oh yeah, Simpsons time! If such a thing as Family Guy existed back then, my parents would have freaked out and it probably wouldn't have been on network television even.
I admire when Cheapy and Wombat talk about games they can play while their kids watch. Some other examples were Need For Speed and Toy Story 3.
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