Ok, one complaint I have is that many parents don't want to take responsibility for raising their children. They want new safety regulations, and new censorship rules, and other people to be responsible for the content their children view.
Ok, there are some situations like the Janet Jackson/Justin Timberlake Super Bowl halftime show. Obviously, that is not the place for public nudity. And it's not unreasonable to expect schools to maintain reasonable standards. Kids should not be listening to Gangsta' rap at school. Nor should they be dressed in a provocative manner. But I get tired of hearing about parents protesting musicians, movies, video games, and so forth, just because they don't want to put the effort into raising their children themselves.
I also am sick of the overuse of drugs on children. Some of the long term effects of these drugs on children are pretty severe. Popping pills into your child so you can avoid having to actually put effort into disciplining them and raising them isn't worth the possibility you are doing permanent damage to your child. You are also reducing the effect of antibiotics when you overuse or fail to use them properly. The simple answer is do some research and put some effort into raising your child.
So how about we keep these parenting groups off Capitol Hill and out of the news, and get these parents to start putting in the effort themselves.
Ok, there are some situations like the Janet Jackson/Justin Timberlake Super Bowl halftime show. Obviously, that is not the place for public nudity. And it's not unreasonable to expect schools to maintain reasonable standards. Kids should not be listening to Gangsta' rap at school. Nor should they be dressed in a provocative manner. But I get tired of hearing about parents protesting musicians, movies, video games, and so forth, just because they don't want to put the effort into raising their children themselves.
I also am sick of the overuse of drugs on children. Some of the long term effects of these drugs on children are pretty severe. Popping pills into your child so you can avoid having to actually put effort into disciplining them and raising them isn't worth the possibility you are doing permanent damage to your child. You are also reducing the effect of antibiotics when you overuse or fail to use them properly. The simple answer is do some research and put some effort into raising your child.
So how about we keep these parenting groups off Capitol Hill and out of the news, and get these parents to start putting in the effort themselves.
AGREED AGREED AGREED!!
ReplyDeleteLet kids be kids, enforce parents censoring what goes into their children's young minds, It is not that fault of the video game, it;s the fault of the person who bought it for and allowed the child to play the game...
PS--Thanks Dan, got a new 2 new ideas for blog topics, when i have a few free min.