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New 'mommy wars': a fight against pop culture's excess
Excerpts: What's really happening with American mothers of all stripes ... is worry about popular culture, and what feels like a tsunami of forces threatening parents' ability to impart positive values to their children, according to a new survey of more than 2,000 mothers. Moms report a cultural onslaught that goes far beyond Hollywood movies and TV, and into the world of the Internet, electronic games, and advertising.
"We heard mothers talking about the kind of hypersexuality that's out there, about violence and disrespect, about body image..."
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A mom can protect her children at home, but it's hard once they venture into the world, to go to school or visit a friend's house, says Ms. Waller.
Boy, am I ever there. Sometimes it feels like trying to hold back the sea with a cubicle partition. For me, it's actually one of the big reasons I want to homeschool my kids. Because home schooling parents tend to be a little more conscientious about limiting TV and computer/internet time, and setting some kind of limit on what's on TV or the computer. When Daniel is around home schooled friends, they tend to play outside or play pretend or build with lego or whatever. When he goes to his public school friends' houses, they watch TV or play on the computer. Exclusively violent games. His public school friends have been playing shoot'em up games for years - blood, guts, cannons, blasters, etc etc, and nobody seems to think this is a problem. Daniel's feeling more and more left out these days. In one internet game, his characters are only up to level 2, while his friends are up to level 8-10, because they get so much more uncontrolled internet time than he does. Only one of his regular school friends gets a limit: half an hour on the computer, then it turns itself off.
Link to article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20050506/ts_csm/amoms
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linealyn: queennell's Scantily Clad Beneath The Clear Night Sky - A Brief Brief History of Time
Newton: Haaaaaang on a minute. If I’ve got gravity holding shit together, I don’t need Aristotle’s crystal balls. This means that the stars might be, like, really far away. And, like, go on for ever.
Newton’s flatmate: WTF d00d, stay off the wild mushrooms!
Newton: But, right, if they go on forever, then my shiny gravity means that the Universe will collapse under its own weight.
Newton’s flatmate: Seriously, Isaac, no more opium on your cornflakes.
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Study: Meanness in Girls Can Start at 3
You don't say. And this is news because... ?
Because I have no originality, here be links!
New 'mommy wars': a fight against pop culture's excess
Excerpts: What's really happening with American mothers of all stripes ... is worry about popular culture, and what feels like a tsunami of forces threatening parents' ability to impart positive values to their children, according to a new survey of more than 2,000 mothers. Moms report a cultural onslaught that goes far beyond Hollywood movies and TV, and into the world of the Internet, electronic games, and advertising.
"We heard mothers talking about the kind of hypersexuality that's out there, about violence and disrespect, about body image..."
...
A mom can protect her children at home, but it's hard once they venture into the world, to go to school or visit a friend's house, says Ms. Waller.
Boy, am I ever there. Sometimes it feels like trying to hold back the sea with a cubicle partition. For me, it's actually one of the big reasons I want to homeschool my kids. Because home schooling parents tend to be a little more conscientious about limiting TV and computer/internet time, and setting some kind of limit on what's on TV or the computer. When Daniel is around home schooled friends, they tend to play outside or play pretend or build with lego or whatever. When he goes to his public school friends' houses, they watch TV or play on the computer. Exclusively violent games. His public school friends have been playing shoot'em up games for years - blood, guts, cannons, blasters, etc etc, and nobody seems to think this is a problem. Daniel's feeling more and more left out these days. In one internet game, his characters are only up to level 2, while his friends are up to level 8-10, because they get so much more uncontrolled internet time than he does. Only one of his regular school friends gets a limit: half an hour on the computer, then it turns itself off.
Link to article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20050506/ts_csm/amoms
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linealyn: queennell's Scantily Clad Beneath The Clear Night Sky - A Brief Brief History of TimeNewton: Haaaaaang on a minute. If I’ve got gravity holding shit together, I don’t need Aristotle’s crystal balls. This means that the stars might be, like, really far away. And, like, go on for ever.
Newton’s flatmate: WTF d00d, stay off the wild mushrooms!
Newton: But, right, if they go on forever, then my shiny gravity means that the Universe will collapse under its own weight.
Newton’s flatmate: Seriously, Isaac, no more opium on your cornflakes.
Study: Meanness in Girls Can Start at 3
You don't say. And this is news because... ?
