Posted on 10/08/2005 12:41:45 PM PDT by Lindykim
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We're fighting a losing battle to keep our children innocent. But I'll keep up the fight til the day I die.
Amen!
There are things we can do right now as parents. Get rid of the television. No video games. Limited internet with supervision. Get rid of the IM's and the chats. Very few movies. The heck with ratings, find out what is in the movie before you go to see it. Steer your children's friendships from an early age so they make good choices later. Talk to them about what you expect and why. Don't just tell them not to have sex, tell them why not. Listen to their opinions, too, so you know what they think. Be involved. Don't shelter them from everything as they get older; give them to tools to deal with tough situations. Don't try to make them cool or popular.
The world may be ugly, but they are still our kids.
Okay, rant over.
Our tv has filters, we do have video games but the ones rated "E" for everyone. Internet has filters, no IM's or chats allowed. We check out all movies with www.screenit.com before the kids can see them. We are very picky about friends and we don't care if they get mad. In the meantime, my daughter's required reading books, (she's 16), consist of sodomy, rape, pedophilia, all kinds of deviant sex. In the Christian school she was in, she got to learn about Mapplethorpe's photos of a man urinating into the mouth of another man. And Annie Sprinkles performance art consisting of masturbating on stage then inviting the patrons to come up and view her genitalia with a flashlight.
It's a constant battle, my friend.
Did you know that the word Tolerance is a medical term?
“Tolerance is the ability to experience exposure to potentially harmful amounts of a substance without showing an adverse effect.”
How much more multiculturalism can you tolerate?
psst That ain't God thats the other guy.
My 14 yos are reading To Kill a Mockingbird and Red Badge of Courage. I love our school. No pc garbage. Even my son's liberal history teacher is great. She is really left (was at the Cindy S. march in Washington) but loves to have kids in class that actually know what is going on. She encourages debate and my son is thriving on that.
My daughter also read those books at age 14 (or younger). Keep a close eye on what they trot out next. It never ceases to amaze me.
It's not multiculturalism with a small "m" that is the trouble. I have no problem with my children having black kids, jewish kids, all kinds of kids in their classes. I like that they hear liberal AND conservative ideas. I like that they are exposed to different religions and nationalities.
It's Multiculturalism that is the problem. When it becomes a holy grail to be achieved, rather than a natural result of different humans interacting, it's pc nonsense.
Thankfully, I know what is coming in our school and it's pretty much the classics. No weird stuff.
It's a private boys' school, though, so that helps.
Just as i have always said,"tolerance is for the weak and the weakminded"!No one has answered the question,"why should i tolerate something that i neither like nor agree with"?
Thanks, lindyk. Will do the pingthing later today or tomorrow at the latest. Other responsibilities have piled up!!
The private Christian school is where I had the most problems.
Trust no one. They sneak it in at every opportunity with the hope that no one is looking.
Most all the moms and dads are working around the clock just to pay the bills and taxes. No one is home cept the kids.
That is a big problem. And so is parental laziness. It's just easier to let them do what they want. And folks wonder why we stopped at three!
We got a puppy instead. I don't have to worry what he watches on TV. Of course, he likes to eat deer poo, so maybe I have a troublemaker on my hands . . .
Thanks for stopping at three. Gotten to the point where traffic is gridlocked 5 hours a day. Can't imagine what it'll be like in ten years.
Ate dinner at a great Italian restaurant the other night. Family that ran it had TEN sons, then a daughter. Can you even imagine? Great fun, and I have to take my hat off to mom. But I know I would have lost one.
And don't worry about traffic. We will never let our boys drive. *grin*
Listen, it's so bad, that in some of our major cities, where the traffic light controlled intersections are working perfectly, they've been forced to put a cop in the middle of the intersection to stop people from blocking the intersections when the light turns red. So bad that when your light turns green, the intersection is full of cars, dead stopped.
Meanwhile, the federal government winks and nods as millions continue to pour across our borders. LOL!
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