did your parents *“pre-screen” the media you interacted with when you were a kid/before legal adult age where you are?
yes, always AND they did parental guidance talks about it
yes, always but there was no parental guidance involved
sometimes, with parental guidance talks
sometimes, no parental guidance talks
not usually, but occasionally (WITH parental guidance)
not usually, but occasionally (WITHOUT parental guidance)
they never pre-screened but there were other rules (elaborate?)
my parents fully didn’t give a shit about what media i engaged with
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See Results*by “pre-screening”, i typically mean any sort of behavior that exists on a spectrum of “actually watching/playing/reading the thing before you played it” to “doing any sort of research on it before letting you watch it”.
feel free to share your experiences in the tags or replies or whatever!
admittedly, i am a little obsessed with like 65% of the tags on this post so far basically saying “my parents didn’t pre-screen things but they [describes behavior that DEFINITELY qualifies as pre-screening]”. i kinda hope maybe this post and others like it wake some people up to the fact that yes, even YOUR parents were controlling what perspectives and ideas you were and were not being allowed to access.
“doing research on it before letting me watch it”… a few times, when I was very small… I think
“doing research on it before buying it for me”… yeah pretty much always, they didn’t just buy me stuff none of us knew anything about
the importance of that distinction varied over time. As I grew older and became a kid who read things from the school library, or bought books at local shops with my own money, these became very different things
But as a small child who usually had access only to what my parents provided, they were almost always exactly the same thing
(their reasoning during the few times they did actively try and control things was as messed up and irrational as it is for any parent)
(but also followed certain peculiar, self-contradictory eccentricities that were typical of nobody except my parents)