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Alas, for the first time I am having major problems with Disqus. Comments won’t load using Chrome. I’m on Explorer just for the OT. I did give feedback.
Legion, how many kids over the age of 12 have you raised? I have raised one to age 15 and I see my values reflected in her opinions. Of course she would never admit it–she thinks she thought it all up herself.
I am not a protectionist parent but it was pretty disgusting to see grown men staring and drooling at 10-year-old girls in the playground in Clinton Hill and Chinatown. Sure they were looking, not touching, and the kids were too young to notice. But not nice!
legion, your kids are still little. I remember when, in junior high school, I suddenly realized that my dad was wrong about Vietnam. It was a crazy time for me.
Alas, for the first time I am having major problems with Disqus. Comments won’t load using Chrome. I’m on Explorer just for the OT. I did give feedback.
Legion, how many kids over the age of 12 have you raised? I have raised one to age 15 and I see my values reflected in her opinions. Of course she would never admit it–she thinks she thought it all up herself.
I am not a protectionist parent but it was pretty disgusting to see grown men staring and drooling at 10-year-old girls in the playground in Clinton Hill and Chinatown. Sure they were looking, not touching, and the kids were too young to notice. But not nice!
legion, your kids are still little. I remember when, in junior high school, I suddenly realized that my dad was wrong about Vietnam. It was a crazy time for me.
I think Jessi’s original statement, that raising kids in the city without a country house is wrong, is pretty anti-child and antiparent.
What are you “right” about, is the question 🙂
We usually do when we meet at a gathering. He’s fun to argue with tho’ 🙂
Maybe the Venezuelan people don’t agree with you, DIBS. I heard on NPR that he acknowledged treatment in Cuba for cancer.
“bxgrl has this idea that I am raising my son on some kind of fringe ideology.” Never said that.
“Because those parents are average and somewhat stupid. ”
But you seem to assume this about people who don’t agree with you?