Information for Parents

Back to the Secret Garden

Back to the Secret Garden

Common Sense Media Age 8

Parents Need To Know

Positive Messages
Some good messages about the importance of loving and caring for people and things (like gardens), and how a lack of attention can cause things to falter.
Positive Role Models & Representations
Violence
Sex
Language
Some name-calling and disrespect, like calling a teacher a "sow," or when a boy calls Lizzie "American" in a derogatory way.
Consumerism
Not applicable
Education Value
Ease of Play
Privacy
A student of an English boarding school asks a girl newly arrived from America if she brought cigarettes, because she says they could make money selling the cigarettes in the nearby village.
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