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PluggedInOnline.com is an entertainment rating website created by Focus On The Family that reviews movies, music, television shows and video games for their suitability for children and families. The content is broken down into categories:

 

- Positive Elements
- Spiritual Content
- Sexual Content
- Violent Content
- Crude or Profane Language
- Drug and Alcohol Content
- Other Negative Elements
- Conclusion

Parents can find out ahead of time whether any of these scenes or lyrics may be unsuitable for their children, before spending any money. There is also a print "Plugged In" magazine you can subscribe to.

Their Mission Statement is as follows: "Plugged In is a Focus on the Family publication designed to help equip parents, youth leaders, ministers and teens with the essential tools that will enable them to understand, navigate and impact the culture in which they live. Entertainment is a potent influence on our culture for both good and evil. Through our reviews and discussions of that entertainment, we hope to spark intellectual thought, family discussion, spiritual growth and a strong desire to follow the command of Colossians 2:8. "See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ."

 

CommonSenseMedia.org is a nonprofit organization that rates movies, TV, games, music, web sites, and books. They use a color coding system:
- Green means "ON: Appropriate for age"
- Yellow means "PAUSE: Know your kid"
- Red means "OFF: Not age appropriate".

The summary is divided into categories:

- Sexual Content
- Violence
- Language
- Message

The last is subcategorized by the messages that come across in the film: Social Behavior, Commercialism, Drug/Alcohol/Tobacco. Members can post their own reviews and read those from other viewers. They also have an e-newsletter you can subscribe to.

Their website states: "Media is fun and our kids love it. We also know that kids now spend so much time absorbing its messages and images that it has become "the other parent" in their lives. As a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, we exist to provide parents with trustworthy information to help manage their kids' media lives."

Kids-In-Mind.com is a subsidiary of Critics.com and MediaScreen.com. Movie content is rated on a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being none and 10 being basically saturated. The ratings are followed by summary explanations of the content. The three rating categories include:

- Sex & Nudity
- Violence & Gore
- Profanity

These are the same ratings which are used by the Motion Picture Association of America (to determine the G to NC-17 ratings), but this website merely lists the content without making a determination of appropriateness based on age.

Their website states: "The purpose of kids-in-mind.com is to provide parents and other adults with objective and complete information about a film's content so that they can decide, based on their own value system, whether they should watch a movie with or without their kids."