04-18-2004, 09:34 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-18-2004, 09:36 PM by TaiDaishar.)
For the record, I'm not a parent and have no real experience in this except for my little brother and sisters so I'm clearly not in the same league experience-wise.
After said that, I believe that keeping your kid in this nice little cloud of happiness (sorry for exaggeration) a waste, the kid will grow and your ability to control what gets into him is diminished incredibly, therefore making the entire thing pointless.
What I do believe in is that the kid should not be put in a blind fold against certain things, on the contrary, you must show those exact same things you wish him to avoid, only isntead of letting him working it out on his own, you, as a parent, could channel this new information, explaining it to the kid and letting him understand what it really is at an early age, when there's a greater impact of the parents on the child, letting him grow up and finding all this stuff on his own can be a very dangerous thing as he'll probably exposed to it much earlier than you intended as he'll have to deal with this new information alone and he'll might come to entirely different conclusions then the ones you wished for.
Again, I am only 17 and by no means am I trying to tell you what to do, this is simply my current view of things, treat them as you wish.
Cheers
After said that, I believe that keeping your kid in this nice little cloud of happiness (sorry for exaggeration) a waste, the kid will grow and your ability to control what gets into him is diminished incredibly, therefore making the entire thing pointless.
What I do believe in is that the kid should not be put in a blind fold against certain things, on the contrary, you must show those exact same things you wish him to avoid, only isntead of letting him working it out on his own, you, as a parent, could channel this new information, explaining it to the kid and letting him understand what it really is at an early age, when there's a greater impact of the parents on the child, letting him grow up and finding all this stuff on his own can be a very dangerous thing as he'll probably exposed to it much earlier than you intended as he'll have to deal with this new information alone and he'll might come to entirely different conclusions then the ones you wished for.
Again, I am only 17 and by no means am I trying to tell you what to do, this is simply my current view of things, treat them as you wish.
Cheers
"Turn the key deftly in the oiled wards, and seal the hushed casket of my soul" - John Keats, "To Sleep"