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 Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 7:31 am
I found out when I was 8...my dad once had a veridable hidden liobrary of porn...foudn one, watched it, got caught, and I got the talk, the whole damn thing. I werided my parents out that day.
Mom: Yes, Aaron, thats basicly how you were created.
Me:...cool...
Dad: ROFL!
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Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 7:38 am
Beware the Jabberwock divineseraph i never got "the talk", my dad tried, but i already knew pretty much everything there was to know. i just sort of...knew, inherently. it was just kind of...obvious to me, i guess- males have one part, females another, and it takes two of them to have a child- (mother and father)- so, i infered that the cause was because of the difference between males in females, otherwise, girls could get girls pregnant and guys could get guys pregnant. i didn't know HOW exactly the two parts were different or how they worked, but i knew it had to do with them. but yeah, i wouldn;t go into technical detail, i'd dumb it down for them a lot- i know that a child wouldn't understand, so i'd probably tell them something like the "when a mommy and a daddy love eachother very much" sort of thing
I'm not one for dumbing things down. Just like my children will never hear about Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny. They'll get gifts and stocking like everyone else, but I'm not going to tell them about some made up character who gives them presents. i intend to tell them about santa, and that he is a personification (in an easier word) of the spirit of christmas- that christmas is about giving to others and sharing- that the original Saint Nicholas, lived hundreds of years ago and is now dead- however, his image reminds us of his generosity, and how we should help others too. i don't like dumbing things down, and i will try not to- but children just might not understand, i'll tell the truth, but in simpler words.
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Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 8:09 am
I plan on doing Santa Clause, somewhat because I don't want to be the mother who all the other parents call going, "My child told me that your daughter said you told her that there isn't a santa clause! Now he doesn't believe in Santa Clause anymore! Thanks a lot!"
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Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 8:26 am
lymelady I plan on doing Santa Clause, somewhat because I don't want to be the mother who all the other parents call going, "My child told me that your daughter said you told her that there isn't a santa clause! Now he doesn't believe in Santa Clause anymore! Thanks a lot!" Same here.
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Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 9:21 am
As far as Santa and the Easter Bunny go, I'll wait until I'm married to decide on that. I don't think there's anything wrong with believing in characters like those.
Though I'd lean towards at least never saying that the Easter Bunny's real; I never believed in the Easter Bunny anyways. I mean, a giant rabbit who hops around laying multicolored eggs for the children? Multicolored -plastic- eggs, with candy or money inside at that!
How does a thing like that reproduce??? o.O Maybe those chocolate eggs inside the plastic eggs are it's young! gonk
...Anyways, yeah. But with Santa, it's like Kate said; I don't want to be the one "ruining the dream" for all the other kids. I might make Santa a slightly smaller figure then my parents did (Maybe he only gives one or two presents per kid), but yeah. But on the other hand, I don't want to lie to my kids at all, so... Like I said, I'll have to wait until I'm married and have a discussion with my wife on it. sweatdrop Maybe find a way to compromise between telling the truth and having trouble with other kids' parents. Maybe just let them find out about Santa from other kids, not say anything about him at all. xd
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Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 9:28 am
Well my brother in law pretty much made the Santa choice for Oliver and I. Our tradition is to have all the kids and grandkids over at Oliver's parent's house fpr Christmas morning to do a Christmas breakfast. Well of course my neice was like "lauren lauren, what did Santa bring Holden" and I was like "mummbles something about a toy car that lights up and sings songs"...and then my niece was like "Lauren, Santa doesnt bring electronic toys!"
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Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 9:30 am
I just realized what the title of this topic is, and how very far off topic we've gotten. xd Wow.
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Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 10:59 am
I.Am I just realized what the title of this topic is, and how very far off topic we've gotten. xd Wow. that's how forums go- we went from the idea of how a man killed a girl, to how we should try to tech our own kids so things like that don't happen as often, then other parenting techniques. logical, i think. and as for those parents- bah, screw them. they know santa doesn't exist anymore, they'll have to break it to little Peckerhead Jr. one day
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Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 11:27 am
divineseraph I.Am I just realized what the title of this topic is, and how very far off topic we've gotten. xd Wow. that's how forums go- we went from the idea of how a man killed a girl, to how we should try to tech our own kids so things like that don't happen as often, then other parenting techniques. logical, i think. and as for those parents- bah, screw them. they know santa doesn't exist anymore, they'll have to break it to little Peckerhead Jr. one day Well, I think that should be up to the parent. And I wasn't saying it was bad. Though, generally, in more moderated forums, we would be chastized and put back on track.
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Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 11:42 am
I.Am divineseraph I.Am I just realized what the title of this topic is, and how very far off topic we've gotten. xd Wow. that's how forums go- we went from the idea of how a man killed a girl, to how we should try to tech our own kids so things like that don't happen as often, then other parenting techniques. logical, i think. and as for those parents- bah, screw them. they know santa doesn't exist anymore, they'll have to break it to little Peckerhead Jr. one day Well, I think that should be up to the parent. And I wasn't saying it was bad. Though, generally, in more moderated forums, we would be chastized and put back on track. nut that's not how life works- we jump around in our thoughts. if it were a debate, then yeah, i understand...but we're pretty much just chatting here. oh- carlos mencia pissed me off btw- he said that the "freedom to choose" saved him from"sticky situations" or some crap like that... he does realize that, if true, a woman killed a life he helpped to create, and he's glorifying it as if she returned his wallet?
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Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 11:50 am
divineseraph nut that's not how life works- we jump around in our thoughts. if it were a debate, then yeah, i understand...but we're pretty much just chatting here. oh- carlos mencia pissed me off btw- he said that the "freedom to choose" saved him from"sticky situations" or some crap like that... he does realize that, if true, a woman killed a life he helpped to create, and he's glorifying it as if she returned his wallet? No, we have a "Hangout" thread for random thoughts, so that the individual threads don't spin into chaos. Now, if we were still talking just about whether and when to teach your kids about sex, that would still be related to the topic at least. But Santa and the Easter Bunny have nothing to do with the topic. And Carlos Mencia is a comedian: He's probably making his political statement by noting that the "freedom to choose" is really convenient for guys who want to have sex and then not have to be responsible for the results. Meaning that it's really easy for a guy to be Pro-Choice. Otherwise I can't see how that would be all that funny. It wouldn't be his style to say that and mean it. Also, for some reason, I think he's Catholic. So he would have to be Pro-Life. I know there are Pro-Choicers who claim to be Catholic, but they are sadly mistaken.
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Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 11:59 am
lymelady Another one? Jeez, I hear about too many of these. That's one reason I'm getting myself to a state where my child's protected by parental consent laws as much as can be, once I'm a mother. Or Norway. Norway's sounding better and better. Yes, I think that they make a law about the child can't get abortion unless with perents permisson. That is only one reason. Other it's dangerous and the perants should have the right to know, it's their job to know what's going on in the childs life so they can help if they do run into trouble. I won't want anyone preform surgery on my child with out telling me. Alot the people that don't want the law to pass seems like kids themselfs that want to keep stuff like that from there parents. That's just sick what that guy did. He's a reason why parents should know about whats doing on in their kids lifes and if he was a child molestor, why was he near children? Some are put near schools, which is almost asking them to harm the kids around them.
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Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 11:59 am
I.Am divineseraph nut that's not how life works- we jump around in our thoughts. if it were a debate, then yeah, i understand...but we're pretty much just chatting here. oh- carlos mencia pissed me off btw- he said that the "freedom to choose" saved him from"sticky situations" or some crap like that... he does realize that, if true, a woman killed a life he helpped to create, and he's glorifying it as if she returned his wallet? No, we have a "Hangout" thread for random thoughts, so that the individual threads don't spin into chaos. Now, if we were still talking just about whether and when to teach your kids about sex, that would still be related to the topic at least. But Santa and the Easter Bunny have nothing to do with the topic. And Carlos Mencia is a comedian: He's probably making his political statement by noting that the "freedom to choose" is really convenient for guys who want to have sex and then not have to be responsible for the results. Meaning that it's really easy for a guy to be Pro-Choice. Otherwise I can't see how that would be all that funny. It wouldn't be his style to say that and mean it. Also, for some reason, I think he's Catholic. So he would have to be Pro-Life. I know there are Pro-Choicers who claim to be Catholic, but they are sadly mistaken. no, he did it as a shoutout at the end of his show... it was along the lines of "america is a great place to live- we have so many rights, like the right to choose...which has gotten me out of a few sticky situations" paraphrasing, of course, but if there was a joke, it was that abortion helped him.
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Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 8:06 am
lymelady I plan on doing Santa Clause, somewhat because I don't want to be the mother who all the other parents call going, "My child told me that your daughter said you told her that there isn't a santa clause! Now he doesn't believe in Santa Clause anymore! Thanks a lot!"
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Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 10:45 am
Beware the Jabberwock lymelady I plan on doing Santa Clause, somewhat because I don't want to be the mother who all the other parents call going, "My child told me that your daughter said you told her that there isn't a santa clause! Now he doesn't believe in Santa Clause anymore! Thanks a lot!" *HUmps your leg* Thank you for saying what I was about to. If I ever decide to tell my children abotu Satan Clause (no, I didn't misspell it) or the easter bunny, I'll tell them the truth. That they are make beleive characters desighned for fun, and thatthey shoudl be treated as such.
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