If you have been able to shield your child from the 360 degrees, 24/7 sexual saturation happening in this culture...opportunistically aimed at kids, who are notoriously impressionable and the most fast and loose with their cash....Then you must be a modern-day miracle worker.
However:
If you have other pursuits in your life—like work for instance, that distract from your ability to stand watch over every “incoming” at your child—and if your child fraternizes with other children-—school pals for instance—you are naive in the extreme if you believe you can “control” your child’s exposure to today’s increasingly inappropriate content, visuals and experience.
You may have had some very outside the curve experience in your particular situation, but to imply “lazy” parents are too blame for not thwarting the avalanche of porn and damaging influence raining down upon families today is skewed and arrogant. We are fighting a tsunami. You are out of touch with the vast majority’s experience.
I venture there will be more to report in your scenario over time. You are still human, like the rest of us. Careful what you so pompously proclaim.
Such smugness is offputting.
My parents did a good job keeping that stuff away from me until I was ready. Seems I should be able to do the same thing with little trouble - just homeschool, no tv, and actually know and approve of my kids’ friends. Not that hard.
Well said
I’m not being smug. I sacrificed my career and material goods to homeschool my daughter. I didn’t turn her over to be indoctrinated by the state or corrupted by unsupervised peers. I also learned how to block channels on the tv. I consider it a matter of priorities. The easy thing would have been day care, then public school, and me raking in the money as pop culture encourages. I considered that a greedy and self serving route. I’m not suggesting parents can control all outside influences, but they can certainly dramatically cut down on them when children are young if they choose to. Then when their children are older and are exposed to the garbage they will still know how to blush and eschew it.
I also think you missed my point. The article says “Mothers of young children are worried because you can’t control the TV remote control.” Yes they can and if they don’t, to me that’s being lazy. “...the pop videos and computer games...” again, don’t buy the games or videos and take control of the tv. The easy route is to say “yes” to them rather than “no.” “They were quite happy to put their kids in front of the telly to watch Hannah Montana...” and that is a poor babysitter and again, laziness in parenting.
It’s everywhere, even in places like the doctor’s office. The photos in the articles and advertisements in the magazines in the waiting room would have been considered porn not so long ago.