As a parent of 14- and 12-year-old boys, I choose our family movie experiences carefully.

I check movie ratings and websites devoted to providing more information to parents about the content of movies.

The last two times I have attended a movie at Regal Cinemas at Bella Bottega, I have noticed that preview material has been age inappropriate for my children.

Regal Cinemas runs both movie previews and commercial material prior to each movie. This content, I have found, includes sexually oriented nudity and crass language.

During the most recent commercial material we watched prior to a PG-13-rated movie, we saw no less than three sexually explicit situations, in addition to multiple exposures to a vulgar term.

I don’t need to see that sort of crass material. I was embarrassed to be exposed to it with my children present and it adds insult that I get to pay for the privilege.

I am writing to warn other parents of the apparent oversight at big-screen theaters. At present, the material shown on the screens prior to movies doesn’t conform with movie ratings. Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) states that in PG-13-rated movies “sexually orientated nudity is generally absent.”

Too bad this doesn’t apply to all the media at the theater these kids are exposed to.

Tracey Kenney, Redmond