Dec. 16, 2025 7 AM PT
To the editor: I’m delighted that columnist LZ Granderson’s son was not “screwed up” by being uncovered to 5 hours (lots of which contain ugly killing scenes) of Quentin Tarantino’s “Kill Invoice” films at age 9 (“Go ahead. Make parenting mistakes,” Dec. 13). I’m additionally glad to see that he acknowledges that as presumably being a mistake, though the entire premise of the column is that parenting is hard and we study from errors. So in some methods, we must always give permission to folks to make such errors.
Having raised two kids and now within the strategy of elevating grandchildren, I wish to recommend that every one errors will not be equal. Exposing a baby to on-screen, nonstop killing at an early age normalizes and trivializes such violence. Whereas most kids may be taught to beat this, even when a really small share proceed to see killing as a trivial act, this might danger creating harmful developmental and societal points down the street.
In my humble opinion, having a baby watch such films isn’t a tolerable mistake below any circumstance. I might additional recommend that there’s no societal worth in having films with this stage of violence in any respect.
Hagop Injeyan, Glendale
