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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Your kid is doing the same thing all our kids do. Th[e]y will survive too.[/quote]

But will they?  My family has a history of serious addiction.  So does my husband's.  I talk openly with our kids about this.  It is absolutely not okay for them to try painkillers, pot, alcohol, or other drugs in middle school (or really ever).  I don't drink, period.  That is the behavior I model for my kids and I am very honest about why.

And I understand the need to acknowledge reality.  But is this really what we want for our kids?  Open access to violent, explicit content that warps their view of what a physical relationship is supposed to be?  Exposure to their peers' behavior that carries with it the expectation that they also will perform on camera?  I mean, are you all seriously okay if your kids are the ones being filmed?

None of this is a moral good.  I am progressive and not particularly religious, but we have created a truly messed up society for our kids if this is what we tolerate.
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The point is that lots of parents are educating their kids on what they should and shouldn’t do.  That however doesn’t mean that a kid is always going to listen and act accordingly.  MS is a time of pushing boundaries and exploring new things.  And kids have always thought themselves invincible.  More importantly our society has for a long time tried to prevent kids from doing things by trying to “keep them innocent” (ie ignorant) instead of talking to them about the real world and the realities that they will face there.  Thus you have threads titled MS culture shock where obviously some folks are surprised by cursing and attire whereas others are like buckle up because that’s nothing compared to everything that’s going to start coming at you with MS and HS following.

ES is a long time and some parents get comfortable there.  In MS time flies, kids enter puberty and start engaging in a more independent existence. They will naturally encounter more advance topics and information as the folks they are interacting with are more advance, also testing boundaries, and exploring the world.

Noone has said they are okay with their kids being filmed.  What they’re saying is, things happen and we deal with them and move on.  Or we try to proactively educate our kids about things so that they are prepared to deal with life as it comes.  That’s it.  For every parent shocked about this things, there is a same parent or another parent giving their kid a phone which is essentially access to it all.  For all of us who have talks with our kids anout sex, drugs, alcohol, life, there are dozens of parents who have not had these same conversations with their child.  Combine all this and things and some are going to be shocked by the results whereas some of us are like yea we saw that coming. [/quote]

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