Save them a lifetime of dissapointment and heartache and NEVER let them listen to a Prince song.

errant said:

Save them a lifetime of dissapointment and heartache and NEVER let them listen to a Prince song.

Why are you on this site?

aardvark15 said:

errant said:

Save them a lifetime of dissapointment and heartache and NEVER let them listen to a Prince song.

Why are you on this site?

to inadvertantly irk the shit out of the kind of people who would use a picture of Prince from Purple Rain as their avatar on a Prince fan site.

how 'bout you?

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errant said:

aardvark15 said:

Why are you on this site?

to inadvertantly irk the shit out of the kind of people who would use a picture of Prince from Purple Rain as their avatar on a Prince fan site.

how 'bout you?

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Well what do u expect?

Graycap23 said:

What are u protecting them from?

I'm very curious of the answer to that by the op.

Kids have internet nowadays. And videogames & movies. They know so much more than when you were a kid. Hiding it makes them wonder and guessing. They will have to find out about it themselves, with the help of friends at the schoolyard. I prefer being open about it and talk with them about it. So you can guide them through real life, in stead of pretending real life doesn't exist and let them face a big surprise at the schoolyard and when they get older.

It sounds to me you are fooling yourself about the reality of a kid's world nowadays.

aardvark15 said:

errant said:

to inadvertantly irk the shit out of the kind of people who would use a picture of Prince from Purple Rain as their avatar on a Prince fan site.

how 'bout you?

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Well what do u expect?

Try something personal?

dJJ said:

Graycap23 said:

What are u protecting them from?

I'm very curious of the answer to that by the op.

Kids have internet nowadays. And videogames & movies. They know so much more than when you were a kid. Hiding it makes them wonder and guessing. They will have to find out about it themselves, with the help of friends at the schoolyard. I prefer being open about it and talk with them about it. So you can guide them through real life, in stead of pretending real life doesn't exist and let them face a big surprise at the schoolyard and when they get older.

It sounds to me you are fooling yourself about the reality of a kid's world nowadays.

as someone who was a kid not that many years ago, i agree with this completely. nothing in a song is worse than what you hear on the playgrund. and the context is going to be much worse

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dJJ said:

Graycap23 said:

What are u protecting them from?

I'm very curious of the answer to that by the op.

Kids have internet nowadays. And videogames & movies. They know so much more than when you were a kid. Hiding it makes them wonder and guessing. They will have to find out about it themselves, with the help of friends at the schoolyard. I prefer being open about it and talk with them about it. So you can guide them through real life, in stead of pretending real life doesn't exist and let them face a big surprise at the schoolyard and when they get older.

It sounds to me you are fooling yourself about the reality of a kid's world nowadays.

See Reply #35.

Btw, my kids have no videogames, a couple of movies, and very limited TV & school-related internet only. That's not because I'm some overprotective nut; it's because all the research says too much screen-time makes kids less creative & fatter. I know several people who grew up w/ no TV/electronic entertainment, and they are ironically in the movie biz and/or internet entrepreneurs/experts. They say the lack of screen time was actually helpful for them to reach this expertise - instead of being consumers, they were creators.

aardvark15 said:

errant said:

to inadvertantly irk the shit out of the kind of people who would use a picture of Prince from Purple Rain as their avatar on a Prince fan site.

how 'bout you?

[Edited 9/20/11 20:42pm]

Well what do u expect?

something a little less passe, even if it must be a picture of Prince.