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

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28. Not every PG-13 movie is the same

At that age I had taken her to the first reboot Star Trek movie and the first Iron Man movie.

And then built up a good slate of films after that, mixing in lots of classics, modern biopics like 42 and 12 Years a Slave, and so forth as time went on.

Where she is now is in a place where she'll watch a whole range of films as opposed to a particular genre, has a deep love of WWII movies across a surprising range of areas, is very keen into international film, but will roll with all kinds of raunchy comedies as well.

It's not going to work for a lot of parents or kids. But it worked for me, especially since I always had things on and always with subtitles (so she was reading things at an early age; her teachers criticized her for reading Harry Potter books when she thought she was too young, one actually accusing her of not actually reading it but just trying to look smart). But with subtitles on her vocabulary picked up big time because I watched a lot of foreign TV for work and she wanted to know what it was, but could only know if she could read the subtitles, so her reading skills picked up a lot.

I'd rather her be like this than her friend that was sheltered from everything and is so tightly wound that when she ends up in college she's going to snap in a very bad way because of it.

Just remember, the key to everything I did was regular engagement and talking. Not a hands off latch key kid like I was that discovered all of it on my own.