Front seat? Age 12. That's the law, isn't it? I mean, unless all the back seats are full.
Go to the local park/blocks from home with no adult? When he got his license to drive. So, 16. (but we don't live anywhere near a park, it's rural and there are no "blocks"... they'd go wander in the woods alone at age 13 though)
Cell phone? No need for one until he joined the wrestling team and the athletic bus dropped the kids off at a gas station 2 miles from home at 7 pm at night in the winter. He was 15.
Daughter got her cell phone at 13, because at that point, we were ready to cut the land line cord, and she wouldn't have a phone if she was home alone or the wi-fi was out.
R rated movies? Well, daughter still doesn't. She's 14. Son is 17 now, so he can go when he wants I suppose. I don't think he has yet, though. He does want to go see SouthPaw, and husband and I have seen it and have no problem with that.
No, we did not let them see them before the recommended age. Unless it was a really old movie when the ratings were more strict/narrow. An R rated movie from 1980 was much different from one today, ya know?
hmm.. Chappie was R rated? Well, I know he's seen that. I guess they've seen more than I realized.. .we watch so much on Netflix that I don't always even know. Husband looks up what the reason for the ratings are, and if it's not anything we object to, they watch with us. Like, Braveheart for example. It's rated R, but they've seen that.