PG-13 ain't what it used to be.

[Blue_Adept]

22. Yeah, that cracked me up to.

I was just talking about this with my mother (78) and my eldest daughter (17) about how I did my film education for her starting at eight by making it clear she was seeing "grown up" movies now, and had to behave properly. And that going to these required talking about certain subjects beforehand and afterward.

We've done that for years (oh man, the talk we had after mother! came out this year) and in the course of talking about it tonight it made me a proud parent because I got that rare "thank you" for what I did. She said it put her ahead of the curve with her classmates who were kept from knowing so many things (some of which she's sure are gonna really have a hard time in college when away from helicopter parents) and it gave her some strong critical thinking skills because I would play devil's advocate to story/character points in the film and how she interpreted it. They do a lot of critical thinking criticism things in her classes in high school and that made her a lot more competitive with an edge.

Now, granted, her dry sarcastic humor that came from some of these films made for some amusing problems in middle school, but thankfully the majority of the teachers were just amused because the things she said went over the other kids heads so they didn't get it.