How can you help kids determine what movies (not) to watch?

Question by U_S_S_Enterprise: How can you help kids determine what movies (not) to watch?
I`m dealing with 2 kids – girl aged 14 and boy aged 13 – who have developed a ‘taste’ for violent movies.
Blade series, Van Helsing .. sex, blood and lots and lots of violence seem the key to “a good movie”.
Now, for some background – the girl has been diagnosed with PDD-NOS (a form of autism) and the boy has some narcissistic streaks, and most likely also a form of autism, which has not yet been diagnosed. Considering that puberty also hit full force…

How can i :
– make clear which kind of movies i do NOT want them to watch, without it becoming a power struggle (i`ll win, but still)
– get them to understand why i`m not too keen on them watching the movies
– make sure they don`t watch it when i`m not at home.

Usually, these are adorable kids – but on this point i`m feeling i`m on a downhill slope.
If you have experience or workable ideas – let me know.

Best answer:

Answer by Betsy
Only suggestion I have is by example but if they are not your own it’s not very helpful. Sorry. Maybe just give them somethign better to watch.

I have teh same problem with computer games and my daughter. Her father, who she lives with, got upset with em because I refuse to allwo ehr to play some of the nasty, bloody, evil games he does while she is in MY home.

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