1977 - 1990 What are you letting your kids watch??

I tend to get migraines, I used to especially more than I do now-a-days!

in the journal entry I find that I am home laying on the couch with an ice pack on my head.  I put in a movie for my son to watch til Apryl came home from school.  I shant say the name, much to my embarrassment but before this entry is over I'm sure you will know what I've done!!!

Let me back up... I remember my first discussion ever of the movie rating system It went something like this... Bishop Watson...Probably you should not go see that movie.  Me... But there are two versions of it the one I am going to see is ok.  Bishop I wish you wouldn't.  The Prophet has counseled us not to support the R-Rated movies.  Well I'm pretty sure I went.  I didn't understand the "Obedience lesson" yet.  I continued from that day to say "the only really good movies" are probably rated R! and went to see them at will (my willful rebellion).  It makes me  shutter to think of this, much less acknowledge it outloud here and now.

I've written in my journal "It is amazes me, that I notice what the kids are watching more when other peoples children are over!" How sad it that?  Really can we as parents be so blind.  I remember love love loving "Up in Smoke" and taking my mother to see it and leaving - she didn't think it was funny at all!!!  Then my nephews!!! I took them to see movies that they should not have been too at all either!  I remember Olaf hiding at the thoughts of  "Tremors"!  and Matthew and I cheering the heroics of "Tango and Cash".  Oh how I will have to answer for these errors in my choices.  If I could do or say anything to encourage you to let your babies your innocent youngins be witness to inappropriate visual stimuli ... I say I am so sorry now that i did not exercise obedience.  We think when they are young mimicking the world it is so cute and makes us laugh.  How naive are we as young parents as to what we are creating by the age of 6 when I heard the movie that my baby was watching and vowed to never let R-Rated movies in the home again. To not pay to support them.  It's even worse now, PG-13 teaches bad stuff out there.  Obedience is the lesson.  How much better off my family would be if I had willing been able to be obedient way back when I'd had that first conversation with my Bishop.  Oh that my children hadn't heard nor ever seen the things they saw ....   Be careful is all I'm saying.

It's the small things that bring us down.  Obedience is the foundation for all good things to come to pass.  John 14:15 If ye love me keep my commandments.  I am so sorry, I appologize.

Just a great guide is as follows taken from a book  titled For the Strength of Youth:

"Media: Movies, Television, Radio, Videocassettes, Books, and Magazines Our Heavenly Father has counseled us as Latter-day Saints to seek after "anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy" (Articles of Faith 1:13). Whatever you read, listen to, or watch makes an impression on you. Public entertainment and the media can provide you with much positive experience. They can uplift and inspire you, teach you good and moral principles, and bring you closer to the beauty this world offers. But they can also make what is wrong and evil look normal, exciting, and acceptable. "

Pornography is especially dangerous and addictive. Curious exploration of pornography can become a controlling habit leading to coarser material and to sexual transgression. If you continue to view pornography, your spirit will become desensitized, and your conscience will erode. Much harm comes from reading or viewing pornography. It causes thoughts within you that weaken your self-discipline.
Don't attend or participate in any form of entertainment, including concerts, movies, and videocassettes, that is vulgar, immoral, inappropriate, suggestive, or pornographic in any way. Movie ratings do not always accurately reflect offensive content. Don't be afraid to walk out of a movie, turn off a television set, or change a radio station if what's being presented does not meet your Heavenly Father's standards. And do not read books or magazines or look at pictures that are pornographic or that present immorality as acceptable.
In short, if you have any question about whether a particular movie, book, or other form of entertainment is appropriate, don't see it, don't read it, don't participate.