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Originally Posted by gashatfreak

I remember showing a 9 year-old kid once a violent scene from Kamen Rider Amazons (the one where Omega was killing all those Ant Amazons) and he just shrugged it off and said he'd seen worse. Not that it would help this thread, but just pointing out that all kids are different and can tolerate different amounts of gore.

Personally though, the fact that he said he'd seen worse disturbs me.

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Originally Posted by Guyver Spawn

Kids will not demonstrate things if you teach them not to do it. When MMPR was airing back when I was 3 years old back in 1994, all of the kids would pretend to be Power Rangers at the playground and no one got hurt because they know that they would get in trouble if they hurt someone. Kids are smarter than people give them credit for if you teach them what is right and wrong at an early age.

As I said, not all kids mental and psychology function the same way.

My advice to any current or future parent on Tokunation: pre-screen the show/content before you showed it to your children. Judge and determine the content in each children show you're going to show to them. Not every children show will be "clean" or "child-friendly" or child appropriate, I mean for example:

Yeah, do whatever they talked about in the video look appropriate for your children? Just because it's a kid show doesn't mean it won't be 100% appropriate to all of them.

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I doubt he has been on the dark web. If not, you have video games and movies that are more graphic than Amazon. Not sure about kids these days, but I do remember kids in the 90s (at least in my local area) like violent stuff like Mortal Kombat and Scream. They knew it was fake and they would be locked up if they kill someone.

I agree with Guyver Spawn, I've seen worse stuff then in any kid toku shows. But the thing that baffle me is that a R-rated movie or a M-rated video game franchise get a kid toy. And no, I'm not making this up. I'm fine with Mario, Sonic the Hedgehog, or Pokemon having children toys, but a M-rated video game franchise like Halo, Call of Duty, Gears of War having toy aimed at little children. No way, that undermine ESRB's rating and policy regarding mature content on video game.

My principle: if a kid can't played a M-rated video game, then these same kid shouldn't play any children toy based on that M-rated video game franchise. Meaning if you don't want your kids to play Call of Duty or Gears of War video game, then don't buy the children toys based on those video game.

I should also clarified that regarding kids watching tokusatsu shows, I would prefer kids 7-10 to be watching those shows. Pre-school age up to age 5 shouldn't watch them because they can't read subtitles. According to several experts on child development, children should develop their reading skill at age 5 and start giving them subtitle/closed caption on TV at either 7 or 8 years old. At that age, that's where I would start giving kids toku shows and/or any foreign-language children shows with English subtitle. I'll attached a chart explaining the age and reading development.

Here are some more information about children and reading:

Should my young child already be reading?

early child reading