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Originally posted by NW Native
2) my son (10) has never watched or played any show/game that includes dismemberment or killing people. I'd like to keep his experience of such to a minimum for a couple more years.
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Yeah, and to my parents' knowledge I didn't have sugar cereal until age 11. Fat fucking chance. Unless you home school your kid and/or live on a commune that the kid has never set foot off of.
That said, I think an actual human arm is a bit much for totally unprepared 5th graders. Someone said "hey I dissected a cat in high school!" Well, bucko, in high school you were at least 14, and at least at my high school the dissecting-the-cat class wasn't available until your junior or senior year.
I think lots of kids would be fine with it, but imaginative kids, particularly ones who had perhaps been in a bad car accident or had friends or relatives in bad car accidents (or whatever) might be freaked out by the sudden appearance of a severed limb. I have a good friend who was in a horrific car accident at age 5 or 6, had to have several corrective surgeries in the ensuing years, and given her reaction to uncontrolled bleeding at age 14 or 15 or so, might have totally flipped at the sight of a severed arm at age 10. Granted, weird circumstances, but not entirely out there.
