Terrible 2 Tuesday! Home Censorship

 I. Love. The Walking Dead. I also love sleep. With this dilemma comes decisions. Sleep and possibly wait till the weekend to watch my shows? Or watch them anyways and hope your children don't want to watch and would rather play. 


Before I get into the decisions that are made in this type of situation, let me give you a little background on D and I--childhood style. 


I consider myself to be a "sheltered" child. I didn't see a rated R movie until I was 13 years old, and my mother didn't even know about it. It was Alien. My mother was very restrictive on any movies with REALLY bad language and ANY type of nudity. Well needless to say, since I was so sheltered, I was pretty shocked at what I saw in Alien. There was also an... experience with a scorpion resembling a face-hugger, in the middle of the night, in my bedroom when I was visiting my dad in Las Vegas after I watched Aliens. 


D on the other hand saw Robocop at the age of 4 when it came out in theaters. O_O!!!! ROBOCOP!!! He's never really been restricted on what he watches. He's a little more numb to violence and gore. Where as I still get queasy when watching something REALLY gory. The violence not so much, since I know it's fake. 


So when The Walking Dead first aired, J wasn't old enough to really know what was going on. She never paid attention to what we watched, so we could say or watch what we wanted. Well when season 2 aired, she was a little more aware. We caught her watching on occasion, but she was never scared of what she saw. The sick child was actually enthralled!!! The age she is now--she's a sponge. She's unfortunately learned a few choice words from us (not just D and I either!!!) and getting more and more aware of what's going on around her. 


Now K on the other hand wasn't exposed to anything when she was younger. It was pretty much Sprout and Spongebob. She's petrified of everything. We had been watching previews and behind the scenes stuff about The Dark Knight Rises, and the same day she had a nightmare about Bane. If she happens to be watching the news, she freaks out about ANY kind of violence. But she's never here when The Walking Dead is on. Hahaha. 


Now we won't be watching The Walking Dead while J is up anymore. We are watching our language as well. But will it really help to keep EVERYTHING away from her? I mean the news is chalk full of violence. And quite frankly I don't know if D and I will ever be able to keep our mouths completely clean. I think we do a pretty decent job as parents though. No one's perfect after all. I guess I just want a good mix of good and bad. Enough to where they're not COMPLETELY numb to everything, but not SCARED of the entire world either. 


How do you censor in the home???