Quote Originally Posted by girtrute View Post
in todays world you have to be all over your kids. Kids are talking about sex in only kindgarten not just 1 or 2 iether. so even if you shelter your kid their still hearing it from all sorts of others. You cant even let your kids watch tv,it all revolves around sex,nickelodeon/disney shows revovle around young seeking a relationship. you cant allow your kid to be on the computer with out partental control,even with heavy filtering on the internet sex stuff still gets through.
Obviously this is only the beggining of what corruption will be more commonly seen from children.
I disagree completely. sheltering kids too much is far more harmful than anything some kid in a playground or a show on tv could do. rather, what needs to be done is schools and parents need to be attempting to get ahead of tv and so on in teaching kids about sex and issues surrounding sexuality, so that they won't be confused by the misleading information on tv and in video games and so on.

obviously I'm not saying that you should be actively letting your kids watch stuff that frankly isn't appropriate for them (ie. Friday the 13th , GTA 4, and NWA for 5 year olds), but there's not a lot you can do to protect them, so rather than letting the media be the first to introduce your child to these things, you should do it yourself, in a more wholesome and constructive fashion.

like, tell your kid about the differences between boys and girls, about how homosexuality is just fine, about racial equality, about freedom to be religious or not... basically about treating people how you would like to be treated yourself, which is a practice that needs to start at home. maybe you don't remember being a kid, but most parents don't bother telling their kids about this stuff, and it leads to ****ed up behaviour. it took me years on my own to figure out how a person should behave, and obviously a lot of people in this world never got around to figuring that out, even as adults.