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Originally Posted by AliceNWondrland
First of all, there is NO WAY you can follow your child around 24 hours a day and monitor everything they see, hear and read. It's just not possible. Period. Especially once they get older than, say, 12 and start doing things without constant parental supervision.
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And that adminoishes you from trying? Or talking? Or explaining things to the child in a more adult fashion?
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Originally Posted by AliceNWondrland
Secondly, unless some of you completely skipped over a very important developmental phase, you need to realize that there comes a time when almost all children rebel against authority.
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Originally Posted by AliceNWondrland
A lot of kids will do and believe the extreme opposite from whatever their parents have tried to teach them, because suddenly parents are idiots and everything they say must be challenged.
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While this is indeed a natural stage in growth, I fail to see how that exoerates anyone from explaining things to their children. I don't blame Lindsay Lohan for women dying their hair red, breast implants, shitty movies or bad singing. Why would her being unhealthy and thin mean that your children would follow suit?
If you had to blame someone, blame the people that photoshop out Lohan's freckles or backhair or frownlines or slightly-smaller-tits. Be realistic instead of simply acting like Donald Sutherland in
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers and pointing and screaming at something you don't like.
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Originally Posted by AliceNWondrland
Also, this misconception about the way a woman's body is "supposed" to look is everywhere.
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This coming from the 37 year old woman who's a MILF, comes to a board filled with 18-25 year old internet people and more or less expects guys to drool/wank/worship her.
Or is that a misconception about men?
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Originally Posted by AliceNWondrland
You turn on the TV and everyone you see is a size 2. You stand in line at the grocery store and there on the covers of all the magazines are women with perfect faces and bodies. It's everywhere. Your kids are going to see it and be affected by it, unless you lock them up in the cellar. And that's a fact.
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If you believe in what you see, I hope the next thing you see is a freight train running you the fuck over.
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Originally Posted by AliceNWondrland
Our society's unrealistic expectations with regard to women's bodies and shitty parenting are two entirely different subjects.
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Agreed - but that doesn't make you any more right.
Jam it back in, in the dark.