Moms Talk: Movie Ratings

A number of the biggest blockbusters to hit theaters this summer are rated PG-13.

You've got Green Lantern, X-Men: First Class and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.

These are the movies the 9-year-old soon-to-be-fourth-grader wants to see. Ditto the 10-year-old soon-to-be fifth-graders. Let's not kid ourselves, parents.

So, GT Patch asks:

• Do you follow the Motion Picture Association of America's ratings when deciding whether your son or daughter can see a movie?
• If you don't follow the MPAA ratings, how do you decide whether a movie's content is age-appropriate?
• At what age do you allow your child to watch whatever movies he or she wants?

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