Lynch,
He's only nine...and I agree with you and do all that you just stated. He is too young to watch violent tv/movies/video games without risking de-sentization and a warped sense of reality. Also, I specifically stated that I do not shelter him without going in to details to make it clear that you have to let your kids experience life. He is a fantastic basketball player, just made the all star team, very proud. He's also already 5'5" so it's a little easier to rebound LOL. He plays football. He loves to draw and paint. He is a fanatic with his Legos and builds extremely intricate structures. He is in our back yard playing b-ball everyday. He loves music but there will be no violent, mysoginistic, etc. rap/metal, etc. He has friends over who never seem to mind the lack of "modern" entertainment. And, most importantly, we talk. We talk about the world, politics, crime, drugs, sex anything and everything he wants or needs to know. He is a very well rounded, mature, and wordly boy. I guess I should have been more specific. The only thing he is without is violence FOR ENTERTAINMENT( he does watch the world news or whatever occasionally so he does see violence and knows it exists, unfortunately he needs to.) and the mind sucking influence of TV and computers...except in moderation. I am far from a perfect mom and many would disagree with my parenting methods but we have a good relationship that I fight everyday to keep. A nice balance of friendship, discplinarian, confidant and teacher. By the way I had him when I was seventeen so I knew that I was going to have to do an above average job as children of teen age moms are more likely to be fucked up according to the statistics.
