Yet I grew up to be rather conservative. Never took drugs and didn't have sex until I was married. I also almost never curse, don't keep pornography of any kind in the house and I'm very selective about what is shown on my television. No video games of any kind either. If my sons wanted to watch trashy TV or play Nintendo, they had to go over somebody else's house.
Yet many kids I grew up with, who had helicopter parents forbidding them to do this and to do that grew up to have all sorts of issues.
Makes me wonder whether all this censorship makes any difference at all.
Censoring makes it worse-the thrill of the forbidden...
I was brought up in a conservative family, in the boonies. My parents never censored, either-we were taught not to swear in other places, not to use slang in public, etc of course. My parents listened to rock and roll, and taught us to dance. We were taught how to politely drink wine or beer on special occasions as teens, but we knew better than to ever drink anywhere but at home and family parties. That would get my parents sent to jail today...
When I was 9 or 10, my mom was reading “Peyton Place”, found out I’d been doing a clandestine read of the book when she wasn’t home because I left the bit of notebook paper I was using to mark my place when I put it back in the bookcase. All she did was ask me very gently if I understood what I was reading about-my place that was marked was where the cad Rodney practically raped a girl with graphic language and detail-and I said I did not.