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Originally Posted by bringer
your 7 yearold homeschooled with no friends? if not, he/she is playing xbox and watching jerry springer at their friends house while the friends mom sniffs paint in the garage.
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No, and no - not very likely IMO.
She's in a private school whereby "media" like TV and the internet, (and mind numbing babysitter type entertainment like Xbox games) are not introduced until a later stage in their development.
She has lots of friends at school, and most of the parents are very involved with their children's day to day activities. I'm not kidding you or myself by saying what I said. I'm sure there are fucked up parents at the school and she's been exposed to fucked up kids with anger and behavior issues as well. In most cases (although not all) we're notified immediately of any problems with other children in the classroom and it's all dealt with at the school between the teachers, students and parents.
Oh, and we have the other kids come to our house for most play dates. That alleviates a lot of the issues that could arise that you mentioned.
I'm fortunate that I earn an incredible living (as does my wife) and we can both afford to be with our children and actually focus on raising them every single day.
Most 9-5 working parents don't have the luxury to parent as we do.
Look, I'm not saying what we do is any better than any other parent - it's just our choice to try to raise our kids this way and hopefully avoid exposure to the things you mentioned as long as reasonably possible. Obviously it won't be forever.
IMHO it's in
my children's best interest.
