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How one feels about sex on television and whether they'd have their kids watching it has nothing to do with being a prude.
Well assuming the kid is not staying up until the wee hours to watch skin flicks on pay per view, I can't see another reason for making a deal out of "kissing and bed scenes".
When it comes to what my 11 year old daughter watches on tv, I get very conservative and I do not let her watch kissing and bed scenes. I would rather that she watches old movies from the 50's because the movies before were more wholesome and didn't have bed scenes unlike the movies now that it always involves bed scenes. I do not let her watch MTV either because the videos nowadays are not as wholesome and fun as the 80's, the videos nowadays make the women look sluty and some have bed scenes.
What are your views as a Parent ? Are you comfortable making your kids watch making out scenes or you are just as uncomfortable as I am ?
I have always preferred kissing to killing, when it comes to kids.
Your decisions do not effect what takes place in my home. My wife and I are the final authority.
My kids saw kissing which I see no problem with unless it turns to lust, and one night stands which are as regular to tv as commercials, and those are at times just as bad if not worse.
Titillation is not must see tv for family viewing.
You don't own your children, you are their temporary caretakers charged with the most important of jobs.
You are not the final authority on anything, you are the TEMPORARY authority but they will grow up, and then the they are the final authority.
I used to keep the remote handy and change the channel as soon as I didn't like what was on --- and it wasn't long before my kids could hold the remote and change the channel instead of me.
It can backfire because it might be a show you're actually watching and something inappropriate shows up and the channel is changed -- but rules are rules.
It can be better if you have kids that like to play video games instead of watching television.
What is even better is when you make sure your children go outside and play until dark then come inside, get their bath and read for 30 minutes or so right before they go to bed. No television, no video games, it makes for healthier and happier children who know how to use their imaginations and learn to love to read.
Hey OP median age for starting menstruation is less than 12 1/2 in this country. In all likelihood your child's body is much farther along the sexual maturity spectrum than 50s TV is going to prepare her for. Maybe you should work on getting the mind aware of that fact.
How one feels about sex on television and whether they'd have their kids watching it has nothing to do with being a prude.
Actually it may have a long term effect on their children.
BTW all the "sex on TV is evil" folks.
While it is true the amount of sex on TV has increased over the last 20 years, the number of teens having sex has actually decreased during the same time frame.
When I was younger my ex-brother-in-law would get so embarrassed because my parents allowed me to watch scenes with kissing. Sometimes other love scenes, but nothing too graphic. My parents were always in the room with me and I never saw anything without them (movie wise) that was inappropriate. If I had questions, they were right there to ask. I guess it killed any curiosity as I became older, because I never felt embarrassed talking about sex with my mom.
You don't own your children, you are their temporary caretakers charged with the most important of jobs.
You are not the final authority on anything, you are the TEMPORARY authority but they will grow up, and then the they are the final authority.
Great post.
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