Originally posted by Staga
Kids will drink alcohol some day, they will have sex some day, smoke cigs and maybe some grass too some day.
Those are inevitable facts of life and it's up to parents if kids are ready for those or not.
Feel free to not talk about sex but don't be surprised if Johnny from the next block knocks your daughter pregnant.
Same with alcohol; could be good idea to let them drink some wine at the dinner and maybe even a glass of scotch now and then; just to show it's nothing special.
Hide tits from young guys and think later why did the school expelled little Tommy when he grabbed little Lisa's tits and squeezed them...
That forbidden fruit is sooo fascinating isn't it
See, the whole point you missed is the discussion is about what is normal on TV at that time, and you have turned the discussion to how Americans are repressed. I don't give a crap about the event to tell you the truth, I was only trying to offer a reason why it was a stupid thing to do.
But... since you bring it up, I think your ideas are idiotic. So is your social synopsis.
1. Drink some wine at the table with your kids so they will think it's no big deal? Uh uh. I don't won't to elevate my kids status to equal with me, because they are not.
2. Give up on defending my morals because it is inevitable my child will turn away from them? Uh uh. Raising a child becomes impossible with that approach, because you would have to give up ever correcting the child in anything. We would be left to letting the kids find their own way in everything.
Some things are not up for the kids to decide, and I want to communicate that to my children as clearly as possible. They will also be accountable for every decision they do make. I will not tell my children smoking grass is no big deal, nor taking alcohol, or having sex, etc., because it is not true. They are all very big deals, and they all have serious ramifications not only for the children themselves but for the society at large.
If your approach to raising your kids is to cop out and remove yourself from the responsibility of applying discipline, good on ya, and I'm glad there is an ocean separating us. You honestly speak as someone without kids, or at the very least, one without female children. At any rate, I could not be more opposed to your viewpoint on raising kids.