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i have a son. 8mos old. we don't watch certain things on tv when he is around. hell, we dont' watch it at all unless its a baby einstein video. we have both agreed that he is not going to have a video game system or shit like that. our goal is to raise him to see that there are more important things, namely, life itself. the beauty of that and all it encompasses. travelig, seeing the world. becoming a leader. learning new languages. that shit first. he can do what he wants when he moves out. but in my house...
the problem is that apparently in many households, parents justify and reinforce that some things just might be ok, by allowing their children to be exposed to very mature concepts at immature ages. guns, sex, violence, american idol :)
ill say this, i watched a lot of saturday morning cartoons when i was young. the anvil falling on the head, tripping over a cliff, bomb in pants, that shit was hilarious. thus, in my day to day actions, if i saw you fall, i was cracking up! the visual reinforcement was that pain and shit was funny if i was not involved. its psychology at its base form.
i play quakeIII religiously. mostly very late at nite so as not to bring my son or family into it. will i allow my son to play it, probably not. too violent for him and at a such a young age, fragging isn't something i want him to know about just yet. he needs to understand the concept of life and death first. when he gets older and wiser, sure, he can make his own decisions maybe, but i'll be damned if i read about his ass shooting people on the highway for kicks.
that puts me as the irresponsible jackass lowlife parent. i care for my son too much to allow him to just fuck around. sometimes when you care for your kids, you have to work 300% harder. that sometimes means being the not so nice parent and saying 'hells no you aren't getting gta3. your only 14. go grab the veggie tales movie and lets go.'
:)