For those of you who haven't recently gone over the Disney movies, there are many innuendos and sexualized characters. An example would be in 'Aladdin' when Genie is singing his intro. He snaps his fingers and for a few seconds kids get to see some bare-bellied girls rubbing their hind-sides against our protagonist. I could also talk about 'The Little Mermaid' scandel along with 'The Lion King'. My parents don't always come right out and tell my friends parents what's not allowed, so I normally tell my friends that and we do something else instead.

Why dont you allow disney?

your friend im srry but she is acting ridicoulus why doesnt she let her kids watch disney movies is she mad at the company or sumthin gimme a break i know yr not gonna listen to my opinion bcuz im 10 and of course alot of parents DONT but im still gonna post

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Playdate media protocols

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Negotiating media rules with your kid's friend

Another reason why CSM lacks common sense, from Be the Otter, an Anti-CSM agency.

I also personally prefer and encourage children to play outside rather than watching cartoon on TV or playing games over computer. Playing games develop children mental and physical ability. But unfortunately most of the children of this generation pass hours after hours by sitting before the stupid box. But I think not allowing watching TV strictly may make the kids more curious and interested, so it’s better to divert their mind subconsciously.
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I limit my child's viewing by making sure she doesn't see any Adult Films or any movies rated "R". No, just kidding. Disney is a big "no-no" in our house, but if she goes out to another home, it's ok. T.V. is like sugar, it's addictive but it's all junk, so we try to temper the junk as much as possible and get in a lot of reading. But no video games. T.V. and computers and such should only be used to promote our involvement as citizens and for education. Good luck.

It is a great question, and one that many parents are asking these days. In fact, I just answered a similar question on my blog. Check it out at http://www.empoweredbyplay.org/
My goal is to help parents and teachers protect imaginitve play.

I have a daughter who is a young teen and a son who is a tween, so they don't do "playdates" anymore and to be honest, when they were younger, I rarely let them go to anyone's house that I didn't know pretty well. I preferred to have their friends come to our house.

I agree with several of the other comments that when they had friends over, I expected them to play, not watch TV or movies. Since I did limit their TV and movie watching a bit when they were younger, they tended to playact with their friends, play games, or even ask us to act out stories with them. One time I remember they all spent a long time drawing several pictures and then created an art gallery/museum and my husband and I had to view the paintings and drawings at the museum. I miss those days. :-)

Now if they have a friend or two over, they will opt to get out the camcorder and film movies, or they write their own books or screenplays (I might have a budding Steven Spielberg or Tina Fey in my midst). I'm not going to say that they don't get out the Wii or the computer with their friends, but they also do other things as well.

All this to say, I never worried too much when they were at my house and if they did go to a friends's house, I just mentioned to the parents that my kids didn't watch PG movies (or PG 13 when they were a little bit older). Later on, I had to add comments about video games as well.

When my daughter has had sleepovers, I always let the parents know what movie they would be watching that evening and I made sure it was okay with all the parents. (yes, for a sleepover you definitely need a movie).

I guess now I just make sure there're no R rated movies at their friends' houses. it's not a problem with my daughter because she doesn't care to see any R rated movies, but my son is another story.

I know that pretty soon I will have to talk to other parents and find out if there will be adult supervision and if there will be any alchohol at the other home. That's why I still would rather have everyone come to my house.

I think it's easy for us to assume that other parents are going to have similar ideas to ours as to what type/ length of media viewing is acceptable. However, we all know what happens when you assume... It would be helpful if the parents of your child's play date would inform you if they have any specific objections to certain types of media, but just in case, it might be best to take the initiative and ask up front in order to avoid any unintended offense. If you and the other parents can't seem to come to a reasonable compromise, then maybe the next play date should be at the park!

You know, it's not something I've ever thought about, nor have had to deal with. The kids my children play with all have parents who have the same media rules...I've been lucky like that! I certainly think it's something I will have to deal with as my children get older and develop friendships with kids and families I don't know as well.

My son spends Monday - Friday at pre-school, so the weekends are family time. Not many "playdates" here. The only play dates he has had are with his cousin. I do expect them to PLAY when they are together and not watch TV. This summer he will be attending some playdates with school friends, so I will have to address that with the other parents. :)

I think parents trust that other parents with similar educational and class backgrounds will have similar tastes and rules when it comes to exposing children to media. I think this is one reason that parents tend to socialize with other parents with similar backgrounds. I'm not trying to say that a certain class of parent is more judicious than another -- but let's admit that entertainment products can be clearly divided by the class of their consumers.

I'm pretty middle-of-the-road on permissiveness with my 10 year old daughter. We own no video game players, I preview or research movies, music and TV shows first, and allow only limited computer access. We still have a no-screen-time-during-playdates rule at our house, so other people don't have to worry about what their kids see here. I'm well aware that she sometimes watches things or plays games at other people's houses. I haven't let her go over to people's houses where I don't know them at least fairly well and I trust her instincts and honesty (so far!) about what she does there. So far, I've been restrictive about whose house she goes to more because of fear of unlocked guns than video exposure!

Thanks for this. I have never even thought about the option of saying something before hand, although I feel really stupid admitting that. I am leary of my kids going over and playing with people anyway because we have sticter standards than most around us.
Our kids at 4 and 2 don't do computer at all and are allowed only very few movie series (VeggieTales or Signing Times).

We're more restrictive about media consumption than most of our 4 year old's friends are, but so far it hasn't been much of an issue during playdates (she's only done drop off playdates with a few friends whose parents I know very well). She didn't watch any TV or movies until age 3, and then it was very sporadic, like one 30 minute show a week or a movie when she was sick until 4 months ago. Then we started having a weekly video night, but we've been picking the videos and we don't do the Disney princess stuff.

My policy at this age is no screen time during a playdate at our house- they get together to play not to sit and watch TV together. And sharing a laptop to play on literactive or something just doesn't work that well with 4 year olds! Her friends parents seem to have the same policies, and they all know we limit her media consumption. As she gets older and has dates with friends we don't know so well, I think we'll just need to be upfront about it like you describe.

I have rules for playdates but I'm flexible about it. When friends come over, I spare them a bit more fun with WII and movies, dressing up, make-up whatever they want as long it is appropriate (i.e.movies and games out of age range is a no-no). When they are at their friends' houses, I assume the rules are there so they have to comply with their house rules. It's one way for my kids to learn how others live, behave. This is a good way to learn about accepting what is different and what tolerance is... one step away from learning and accepting other culture and language difference. So if this parent doesn't allow Disney (which my kids love) there are other ways to be entertained and kids always come up with fun ways of doing it. But it's up to the kids to determine if they want to come back or not (I'm bored, no Disney). Chances are, friends just being together will be more entertaining than the platform the fun is based on.

How can you not watch disney movies?! I was like raised on them