Kids-In-Mind Keeps Parents Informed
February 11, 2007 by Karen Weideman
Filed under entertainment, family
I just found out about a site called Kids-In-Mind. This site gives parents the skinny on what’s going on in a movie. Each movie receives a rating of 1-10 in the areas of sex, violence, and profanity. Very detailed information is given, including which profane words were used, what the actors were wearing, if there is any name-calling, and more. I was pretty impressed with the specifics for the reviews.
Here is a snippet from the review for “Miss Potter”:
SEX/NUDITY 2 – A man and a woman kiss, a man and a woman dance together, and a man touches a woman’s hand tenderly.
► Women wear low-cut dresses at a party.
► A man and a woman are left alone in her room when their chaperone falls asleep. A woman talks about her daughter not being able to attract a man to marry.
The purpose of Kids-In-Mind is to provide adults with complete information about a movie’s content so that they can decide, based upon their own value system, whether or not they want to see the movie or show it to their children.
I give Kids-In-Mind a thumbs up! Another good site for movie and music reviews is Plugged In Online. Both sites are offered for free. For as little as $12/year you can subscribe to Kids-In-Mind and receive advance reviews without the ads.
Thanks to Goody blog for the tip!
I love these kinds of sites. I know my daughter will have to grow up at some point. But I don’t want her to have to do it too soon just because I wasn’t vigilant enough with what she was exposed to.
What a helpful site. I will have to check it out.
Here via the carnival of family life.
I have been wondering how I could moniter the things I let my kids watch more closely! Thankyou!!! I came from Carnival of Family Life
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