I expect all parents will judge material they read for their kids first, I guess. A reasonable expectation but you'd be surprised - when you become a busy frazzled parent sometimes you do make assumptions and read or watch things with your kids first rather than vetting them.

I watched Jimmy Neutron with the boys because I vaguely remembered it being amusing when I saw it at persistalismum's. Well - it was - and it was ok but if I'd remembered how much fighting there was I wouldn't have let them watch it til they were older. Ditto with Toy Stories 1,2 (which they adore) and Lilo and Stitch. Oh well- I suppose it was just a matter or time and we *do* talk about the movies with them ("Woody shouldn't have called Buzz an Idiot, that wasn't nice was it?") etc.

What made me roll my eyes though was when a person on another list I'm on complained that she'd taken her young children to see Lord of the Rings and it was too violent. Now granted, all that violence is bigger on the screen but my comment to her was "I know you said your son loved the books but have you read them? They are about an epic battle between good and evil and yes, the books do have a lot of fighting in them." sigh..... she hadn't read them.