[To Hell With Poverty]

It is frightening to be a parent these days. Our two (5 and 7) go to a small Catholic school and luckily have very sweet friends. We don’t have TV in the house and don’t listen to any current music. We are trying to show them, carefully, just how inappropriate and harmful the culture is out there and thankfully my daughter (the 7 year old) seems to get it somewhat.

My husband and I were 80’s kids, far from prudes, yet I think that a time traveller from the 80’s even would be grossed out by the way things have degraded, so my hope is that by the time my kids reach high school, and we are no longer able to filter their environment to the extent that we can now, the shock of reality will be enough to repulse them, rather than entice them.

[defconw]

Well you seem to be moving in the right direction. My old parish back in Indiana was home school haven. My sister teaches at a large parochial school near by. I used to teach religious ed to the public school kids there. Night and day between the kids that went to Church school and public school kids.

My sisters kids are a 21 and 18 year old twins. Prek-12 all catholic Schools. I must say they are good kids. More innocent then public school kids of the same age.