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Originally Posted by Scootermuze
Were your parents on your heels 24/7?
Did they follow you all over the neighborhood to your friends' houses?
Did they sit next to you every time you had a phone call?
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Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Well, OK, so maybe it wasnt that bad. But yes, my parents were parents. They said no more than they said yes. When I turned 12 and wanted to use the internet to make a pipe bomb like the neighbor's kid, they said no. They made me wear a helmet on the dirt bike and the snowmobile. They didnt let me play with fire. I didnt get to go everwhere I wanted with whomever I wanted.
What they didnt do was sit around and piss and moan all day about how the cable TV (that they elected to install and pay for each month) was so polluted with trash nor did they write letters to the editor every day demanding that the internet be censored and that more so-called child decency laws be passed. And when I fucked up and got into trouble, they didnt blame everyone and everything around them. They blamed me.
This was an issue for the parents to deal with AT HOME. Not for the school. It might take a village to raise a child, but this is not to be confused with the villiage having the right to say how the child is raised.
I agree with pr0 on this one.