Moments of DOH!

Love the Simpsons. Could go on for hours with great lines from their many years and believe me, there have been dinner conversations when we are at my parent's house that have been almost exclusively that. My little brothers have watched almost every single episode.
Anyway, had a moment on Monday where apparently my good judgement turned off. I put on X-Men 2 for my son and the neighbors boy while we were upstairs playing cards. Their son said he had seen it before. Sure it's PG-13 and my boy is almost 6 and theirs is 7...but in my rush to get the card games from the game closet down here and get the video on, I stopped thinking like a parent. So consequently, I got in trouble. See there were also 4 girls down there that decided to watch it as well and they all got scared and claimed they were going to have nightmares. I managed to handle my kids but I just sent the 3 neighbor kids home with their parents. Brilliant. Sometimes I can be such a moron. My wife gave me the what-for later about all of it. I feel bad because normally I'm much better. I'm a little more lenient with my kids but I know better than to do that with other people's kids. Why did I do it? I have no good answer. Nothing that soothes the guilt at any rate. So tonight I am pleding to do better. To think more...yes, that's right, a guy pledging to use his brain more often, don't die from shock. To be more parent-friendly and child-centric. You'd think after 5 of my own that I would be doing better. It will be 8 years from when Adeena was born on April 4th. 8 years of learning this whole parenting thing. I guess it only goes to show that I need more practice to become perfect.