03 Aug 05
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right, I was watching tv the other night, and there was a commercial break. Then, there was a commercial, it was bloody terrible. It started off with men in the shower. I was thinking "Do I really want to see this?", and suddenly, switching to mtv didn't sound so bad. Well, before I could grab the remote, the camera showed one guy dropping the soap. I was horrified, thinking they can't do this, it's early evening program, there are 12-year-old watching this!. The guys looked at each other... and started PLAYING FOOTBALL WITH THE SOAP!!!! I mean, wtf? It turned out to be a commercial for the football league that starts this saturday... but come on, is that a bad commercial or something?
03 Aug 05
Originally posted by angie88It's not that bad, sex is everywhere anyway.
right, I was watching tv the other night, and there was a commercial break. Then, there was a commercial, it was bloody terrible. It started off with men in the shower. I was thinking "Do I really want to see this?", and suddenly, switching to mtv didn't sound so bad. Well, before I could grab the remote, the camera showed one guy [b]dropping the soap ...[text shortened]... ootball league that starts this saturday... but come on, is that a bad commercial or something?[/b]
Besides, if kids already know what dropping the soap means then what's the difference? If they don't they'll probably won't get it anyway.
03 Aug 05
Originally posted by angie88football is boring so the adverts go hand in hand 🙂
right, I was watching tv the other night, and there was a commercial break. Then, there was a commercial, it was bloody terrible. It started off with men in the shower. I was thinking "Do I really want to see this?", and suddenly, switching to mtv didn't sound so bad. Well, before I could grab the remote, the camera showed one guy [b]dropping the soap ...[text shortened]... ootball league that starts this saturday... but come on, is that a bad commercial or something?[/b]
03 Aug 05
Originally posted by darvlaylol, when they ask!
When is the proper age to teach your children about gay prison sex anyways?
Couple summers ago my 9 yr old daughter asked me what a lesbian was. I almost choked, we were camping at the time and I was very unprepared!
Of course she had heard it on TV. So thanks to irresponsible television my children now know all the many forms of "relationships"
There's no such thing as innocence anymore.
And yes that's a stupid commercial. There are worse.
03 Aug 05
Originally posted by mokkowhy didn't you fob her off with some lame-a$$ excuse.
lol, when they ask!
Couple summers ago my 9 yr old daughter asked me what a lesbian was. I almost choked, we were camping at the time and I was very unprepared!
Of course she had heard it on TV. So thanks to irresponsible television my children now know all the many forms of "relationships"
There's no such thing as innocence anymore.
And yes that's a stupid commercial. There are worse.
There was once a woman on Graham Norton who said when she had heard the word blow-job being bantered around school, she went home and asked her mother what it meant. And her mother replied that she "thought it was a DIY tool for removing paint of walls". She honestly thought this is what it was, and it was apparently only years later when the daughter was decorating her flat with her boyfriend that she found out "a blow-job was not a paint stripper", informed carefully by her stunned boyfriend. Graham Norton actually called up the mother live on TV and asked her what a BJ was and she gave the same response. She must have been around 70 and still not known what a blow-job was.
I was laughing for days!
Fred
03 Aug 05
Originally posted by Freddie2004I briefly considered that option. But parenting demands a high level of trust and honesty. If I wish for my children to be open and honest with me in their teen years they must first feel they can trust me not to BS them. Trust is a two way street.
why didn't you fob her off with some lame-a$$ excuse.
Fred
There's no point lying to protect kids anymore. With todays media so overtly sexual they're getting mixed messages as it is. I would prefer my kids to trust in me for factual information and not some lame a$$ed excuse of a television ad, or school yard banter.
We have created a scociety where kids grow up watching naked men and women on every television channel and news stand magazine rack. To say that they "don't get it" is extremely insulting to the intelligence of a child. They're astute observers with a natural curiosity for everything they see and hear.
With all these sexual messages that surround our children it's more important now than ever to have open and honest communication while at the same time knowing the level or extent in which information is devulged.
In explaining what a lesbian was to my daughter I didn't feel the need for a sex ed. lesson. I simply explained that instead of holding hands and playing kissy kissy with a boy, a lesbian likes to hold hands and play kissy kissy with other girls. Mabye if we weren't forced to drown in sexual imagery on a daily basis our children would still be free to retain their innocence. Unfortunately this is no longer the case.
Thankfully they haven't seen the new Paris Hilton commercial yet. That's a whole other conversation! (speaking of BAD commercials!)
03 Aug 05
Originally posted by BowmannI agree bowmann, there are a lot of parents who shouldn't be out there these days. Fortunately, Mokko is not one of these.
Parents have helped by allowing kids to stay up later and buying them TV sets for their bedrooms.
Unfortunately, no parent taught my ex any manners and that's why we ended up like this. But that's another story.