Using media rating systems as a guide rather than a rule

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Using media rating systems as a guide rather than a rule

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I think rating systems are very good start. I find them - generally to provide good guidance for parents and a lot of websites will also - if one googles parent feedback or kind of movie, they're very helpful however each parent is the world's leading expert on their child. And so, this information how to be siphoned through the lens of that expertise . When my son was 11, we played Halo, an M Rated video game. He doesn't have any M Rated video games in his library except that one because I knew it was okay for him for us to play together. Likewise when my daughter was 10, we watched a G rated ghost movie that a lot of kids her age had seen without effect but for her it made her cry and be scared and so it's important to turn it off. So, I take the guides as a starting point but then I refined it with my world's leading expertise as parent.

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David Palmiter, PhD, ABPP

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Dr. David Palmiter is a professor of Psychology and Counseling at Marywood University. He is a practicing and board-certified clinical psychologist, a past president of the Pennsylvania Psychological Association, the author of over three dozen publications, including two books on promoting resilience in youth, a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (true of < 6% of psychologists), the American Academy of Clinical Psychology and the Pennsylvania Psychological Association in youth. He has also given hundreds of workshops on family issues for organizations such as The Navy SEAL Foundation, The Master Therapist Series at the University of Connecticut, The American Psychological Association and the McGraw-Hill Financial Group and completed hundreds of media projects for outlets such as CNN, The New York Times, US News and World Report and the Wall Street Journal. David is also a dad of three (two studying at Cornell University and one still in high school) and husband of 27 years to Dr. Lia Richards-Palmiter. A central aspect of his professional mission is to put air under the wings of parents as they try to raise happy and resilient children and teens.

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