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Originally Posted by voracious71
That's because there is too much coddling where there shouldn't be and lack of attention in areas where it's needed.
At 9 and 10, I started reading Stephen King novels and true crime books. I saw my fair share of R rated movies too..(cable TV  ) However, I didn't view my parents as peers, they were my parents. So, while they didn't censor my reading and tv/movie/music consumption all that much, they always knew who my friends were, where I was going, and what I was up to, especially my mom.
These days, parents get all twitchy about media, yet lax about other things. |
Well I am not twitchy. My kids have never been censored against anything either, My kids read and watched anything , but with us present. In fact at 11 my daughter wanted to grow up to be a producer so she could make more Nightmare on Elm Street movies. When other parents shocked asked me how on earth I let my children watch such things, my replay was always, I saw no problem with it infact it was teaching them what a bad idea it was for teens to sneak of and have sex as the boogie man always killed them first hehehe That tended to shut them up.
Even at 19 I always know exactly were my kids are. My kids had more rules on what they could do than anybody elses kids, I just did not censore them and ended up with amazing kids and not a single rebel.
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