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Originally Posted by AMD_freak
societies whole problem these days isnt violence in video games or cursing. Its simply bad parenting! who cares if theres a south park or gta. If your a good parent you just simply say no and dont let your kids have that stuff. thats a great example el navato. People expect other people or the government to raise thier kids and keep them from bad things. Then when there kids misbehave or do something bad its never the kids fault acording to the parent. Then theres the parent who over shelters. And once there kids get into the real world and face decisions they don't know what to do!!!
(my sisters a teacher and is always telling me how she sees this everyday)
EDIT: you just say no and dont let them have that stuff
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Thats how i was raised... i was WAY over sheltered. My parents were pretty much idiots when i was growing up. They were 2 couch potatos that sat in front of the tv ALL DAY LONG. I wasn't allowed to do anything. No tv, no games, no friends, no junkfood, no nothing. I lived my life sleeping and doing homework. I convinced them to let me do marching band but no sports. I had to purchase my own instument with lawn mowing money. It was the most pathetic thing you've ever seen. When I turned 18 I moved out of the house immidiately and went in a duplex that i shared with 2 other roomates. I was still in high school at the time. I had absolutly no idea what to do about anything. I STILL have troubles making decisions. It really was an ackward thing. My wife on the other hand had really successful parents that seemed like the type that would be really enforceful.. but nope... her parents didnt give a crap what she did. If at age 12 she was out till 5 am partying... "who cares?" was the attitude of the parents. She ended up way better than i am right now. She started making her own decisions so early that shes mastered them.. and she now does all our bills... and pretty much runs the entire household. I have no idea how to do all that crap. Ive heard of the "sink or swim" meathod and it seems to work for kids who dont have motivation in school. If you just give up on them they will make their own decisions for once and eventually decide to work hard. Kids DONT listen. Thats just human nature. You tell them one thing... they do the opposite. I truely believe that parents who overly worry about their kids grades usually have kids that do terrible in school. Thats just my belief.