The debate over ratings is complex. Beyond the arbitrary nature of age, the key seems to be the preparation you gave your daughter. That's the difference between conscious exposure and passive, unsupervised consumption of content. However, your own reluctance toward horror films reveals that, deep down, we all apply our own filters, which don't always coincide with official criteria.

I love the black and white photography, that look in Smallsteps's eyes as he eats his popcorn.

An honest and entertaining presentation that opens up discussion about the meaning of parental controls and the limits of age classification in an age of open viewing.

It's all pretty arbitrary these days.  They have guidelines here too, but most parents don't bother to adhere to them.  Which yeah, it is their choice, but the problem is we have already determined that most parents don't always make the best decisions, so you end up having kids seeing content they have no facilities to comprehend.  It sounds like you did your due diligence to make sure this would be appropriate which is admirable.  I saw a double feature at a drive in when I was a young adult.  One was Dante's Peak, and I think the other was Twister or Volcano.

The age ratings are archaic from the 90s and shoudn't be keeping anyone out of film. These days I think parents are more open with their kids about the content in the film, so the ratings should be recommendations at best.

> Have you ever seen a movie you think you were too young to see?

Too many times... I remember as a child that my parents often hurriedly switched to other channels, when some explicit images (sex) appeared on the TV screen on which they were watching a movie, which I also followed (I only watched the picture because I didn't know how to read 😃). 

And I still remember today, I went to the cinema with my friends, I was no more than 10 years old, to watch the horror movie "Demons". 
https://g.co/kgs/jWRsdHM
In our country, we were not restricted by the law at that time, and it should have been, because the introductory note stated 17+ 😱

The action of the film begins in a darkened cinema hall, similar to the one we were sitting in, when the screen is torn and demons rush from the stage into the front rows. Creepy and definitely not for boys of that age.

I saw a movie called, *The Rose* (1979). Mum dropped me and Z off there for some reason and clearly didn't know what the movie was. I was nine and say there thinking, *what the everlovin' fuck is this fucken shit.* 

I didn't understand any of it but the popcorn and soda went down well. 

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That's awesome you have something you like which you can enjoy together with your daughter. I think the age restriction is flawed, but is set up as a precaution to protect the children. Smallsteps might be advanced for her age mental wise, but some kids might be behind. That is the reason for the blanket age like that. I compare it to like the school system where there are grades, but the level of intelligence of students can vary greatly within it.

I think horror was mostly the movie I was too young to see. There were a lot "Shake Rattle and Roll" films during Halloween season, and they just show it on TV. I think they were rated R13, and I was watching them when I was 7. There were a lot of scared moments after watching it, but is now a fun memory I have with my siblings.

I feel like ratings in itself can be so arbitrary sometimes. Parents should be trusted to judge what’s right for their own kids, especially when the content is not strong content

I'll never forget being in a video store (yep) and this Mum was asking about SAW for her kid. Her 13 year old kid. For a sleepover. 

When I was about 13 I saw Texas Chainsaw Massacre at a sleepover. I had to call my Mum to come get me - I felt so sick watching it. 

There HAS to be guidelines for viewing, because not everyone are responsible parents, and kids aren't always ready to watch shows that have particular content. 

Not everyone is as careful and responsible as you guys, Taraz. 

> (it will come to me at some point)

Will you remember why it came to you or when it does come to you will you be trying to remember why you needed to remember that or why you were remembering this at that time? XD

> We lied.  But why should we have to?

This was my hugest argument against COPPA and pretty much every single "child protection" thing (especially this under 16 ban.  Like get the hell out of my way you're actively preventing me from doing my job and also actively making everything a hundred billion times worse no matter how desperately anyone tries to pretend otherwise.

On the flipside of that I have had so many people I know lie about their kids' age to get them into the zoo for free (there is or at least was a day in the week when 4 and under could get in for free, it's been a while since I've been to the zoo now never mind with small kids) and if the kids overhear they protest about how they're now 5 or 6.

> Their parents are just glad they aren't getting bothered by kids saying "I'm bored!"

My kids would get mad at me coz I'd give them chores to do, and then they learned really fast to find something else to do when bored and not complain at me XD

<sub>I'm such a bad parent</sub>

I think the only movie I was probably too young to see I didn't even get to see all of, pretty sure it was a porno that my parents somehow didn't realise was a porno.  This scene came on (I can remember the scene, when I was that little I just thought it was a bit weird but as an adult I was like WAIT) and my parents looked at each other and then Mum quickly got up and turned it off and said we'd go back to the video shop to borrow another one because "this one's 'not nice'."