Posted on 03/03/2013 6:04:59 AM PST by Kaslin
hear, hear! i agree... my sons never watched Sesame Street... actually they never watched any of the PBS programming... before i became a mother, i sort of assumed they would watch Sesame Street and the other PBS showss... however, once i became a mom, i realized i had full control over what my babies were exposed to, and no--we did not have to do what just about everybody else does...
i find Sesame Street to be artificial--in everything it teaches... from social thinking to social skills--to basic academics like letter sounds and counting numbers... so frankly, i don't really care what happens on Sesame Street, even though my tax dollars help support it... i feel the same about government schools since we don't use them...
Every time I happen upon one of these discussions, I flash back to #1 daughter and the Cabbage Patch Doll...
She was six when the blasted things first came out.
Grandma decided that we would get her one for Christmas and since there weren’t any to be had at any price out in our personal remote corner of Flyover Country, I got to “go pick one up” on my business trip to the East Coast the first week of December.
(...that was the closest I’d been to hand-to-hand combat in a while, but I digress.)
Anyway, I procured the doll, it got opened Christmas morning to great approval, appreciation and long years of play.
Then it got passed down to #1 GRAND daughter and I spent a part of a weekend watching her playing with her two younger brothers.
That old Cabbage Patch doll was there, along with a pile of assorted other toys, a few sticks, marbles and a kid-sized cardboard box.
I’d give you a list of the things all of those items got morphed into by that busy little trio over the next half hour, but I’d run out of bandwidth and only get ten percent of the gigs that Cabbage Patch alone got.
Kids’ psyches are shaped by the toys they get???
That’s gotta set some kind of record for mental paralysis by over-analysis (aka somebody’s Doctoral thesis).
Kids play with anything they can lay a hand to and the only limit on the play is the imagination of the child.
I have to wonder if some of these so-called experts on children have children of their own or, for that matter, actually had a childhood.
none of my kids watched any of the PBS shows and especially seasame street.
I’ve just asked my 15 year old boy and he just told me it was freaky.
my boys are raised and I just “let” them play with whatever toys they were around and yes, our best friends were girls. If you act like playing with easy bake will turn him gay, you don’t get it. Guess what, the best chefs are male, so are the best chess players.
Now, now Karf. I can tell by the date you came to FR that you are from another generation and don’t quite understand the new neutered and domesticated male generation. I, too, am from another era, the era of men and manhood and watch in wonderment what the feminists have done to destroy the way it has been since the dawning of civilization.
“girle man riding with a helmet on”
Apparently being a man means splattering your brains on the road.
I still remember ripping the clothes off of my sister’s dolls. NOTHING!!!...except, maybe, a couple of bumps.
(this was before kids had the Internet to get anything they wanted)
That was my extent of playing with dolls.
Feminists: Leave My Boys Alone
My “traditional” response to this particular faction of libtard perversion: Feminists: Go F%^k Yourselves.
“The main way to keep little children from becoming homosexuals is to make darn sure they don’t get molested as children.”
This is the second time today I’ve caught you expressing my own thoughts - I don’t see a lot of that!
Thanks.
Kids’ psyches are shaped by the toys they get???
That’s gotta set some kind of record for mental paralysis by over-analysis (aka somebody’s Doctoral thesis).
Kids play with anything they can lay a hand to and the only limit on the play is the imagination of the child.
I have to wonder if some of these so-called experts on children have children of their own or, for that matter, actually had a childhood.
I am certain that it happened with all of them but it really stands out with my one nephew. First every branch, twig, or Popsicle stick morphed into a sword or knife, then it was a gun. When he discovered Star Trek it was a phaser. He could turn a pile of blankets and two dining room chairs into a fort in 3 minutes flat. He and I would would take a walk down by the stream and the next thing you knew we were on the look out for storm troopers or wild Indians (Don't know how he got both those groups together, but he was only 7).
To date he has never assaulted anyone, robbed a liquor store or beat up either grandmother.
He has turned out to be one heck of a swimmer, and soccer player and earns money as a lifeguard and a soccer ref.
“girle man riding with a helmet on”
Apparently being a man means splattering your brains on the road
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How many cases of splattering brains have you heard of.
Helmets for bicyclists is a fairly new ‘rule’. However since few if any states have a LAW requiring adults to use them, the freedom of choice is a ‘good’ thing.
Of course my ‘favorite’ site is a 40ish man dressed in Spandex riding a bike with his helmet...then again, it is easier to ‘take’ rather than some legislation forcing the helmet. WE MUST DRAW THE LINE THOUGH IF FORCED TO WEAR SPANDEX. <: <:
I was talking to my daughter yesterday and the ex wife was there and I made a reference to the stupidity of the teacher that called Police in PA because of the theme to a TV show.
X thought it was perfectly natural.
I also brought up the incident of the BB gun in the woods and the X also thought that was a perfectly normal thing.
I ‘walked’ away from her (X) when she mentioned a kid should get suspended for wearing his Brothers USMC sweat shirt - not because the sweat shirt was not part of the school ‘uniform’, but because it depicted violence.
I have never asked (for obvious reasons and I have a ‘short fuse’) but I would venture to say she (X) voted for obozo. That is if she got off her derriere and took the trouble to vote - In essence she is one of those that ‘rather than waste a vote’ would rather sit around and moan and groan over what was going on....
She is the eptitome of telling someone “If you don’t vote, STFU, you gave away your ‘right’ to complain”/
Now this thing about Military garb is really ironic seeing as how she ‘took a check’ from DOD for 30+ years and, oh yes, she is one of the ones that believe the DOD Civilians rate the same ‘medals and awards’ as the Military because “WE are doing the same job”.
In case one might wonder (or care) I am NOT bitter with X because of any settlement etc, it was an uncontested D after 40 yrs.
My only regret is marrying her in the 1st place though I did end up with a couple of fine daughters and 5 grandchildren.
Which despite her ‘shortcomings’, she did a fine job of raising etc... I was present on on scene, but left the rearing to her, I just had to do the ‘heavy lifting’.
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My five-year-old boys are in the other room right now playing with Barbies AND G.I. Joes (the retro 12” type) in their Joe & Barbie castle that I made for them (because I couldn’t stand having a PINK dollhouse around). I’m very happy that they think the Barbies & Joes are *married* and having families. I think that’s great, compared to all the unmarried examples we see all through our culture. (BTW, the Joes and *constantly* having to defend the castle from enemies of all kinds, particularly ogres and other monsters. Pretty cute. ;o)
GI Joe isn't a doll. It's an action figure. BIG difference.
You are failing to see that the boys are not interested in playing with them as the girls would like, yet still want to play with the girls and not leave their friends. So, rather than engage in play that they would prefer not to, they make it into what suits them.
They clearly know the difference, it is a choice to them
In some states the bill for each chid per year is well over $10,000, citizens should care. You, and the rest of us, are paying for all that waste.
In some states the bill for each child per year is well over $10,000, citizens should care. You, and the rest of us, are paying for all that waste.
If parents are truly worried about making sure their children conform to gender stereotypes at all times, perhaps it’s the parents who aren’t quite comfortable with themselves.
Left alone, kids will play with what they want to play with. The best “thing” to play with is a bunch of brothers and sisters! This also helps them learn to care for babies/younger children.
My brother used to hang my dolls by the neck over the stair railing.
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