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Earlier this week, I invited you to revisit your childhood trauma with me, and as expected, many of you were happy to go along for the ride, sharing the movies you saw way, way before you should’ve been exposed to them, thus scarring you for life. But in a fun way!
Now, far be it from me to judge the poor parenting decisions of others—I’m quite busy enough judging my own poor parenting decisions, thanks—but I think we are doing kids a disservice to let them watch adult content before they are old enough to really comprehend it in context. They grow up too fast already, and a big part of that process involves shedding their literally childlike illusion that the world is a wonderful and magical place, rather than a mostly terrible one. We probably shouldn’t use our own hazy memories of seeing a knife-fingered serial killer slicing teenagers open when we were 8 and being fine with it influence our decisions to let our kids do the same.
But I get it, parenting is hard, and kids are whiny, and sometimes really want to see that inappropriate movie. But if you let them, they’ll never forget it—as I will now demonstrate.
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