Texas, you dirty little wh....

Different thread.

 

That's a bad analogy, though. You can sit in a room and do meth with someone, but you're not doing meth to them. It would really be like two people masturbating in the same room. Which is not illegal even if they are teenagers.

 

And while I am at it…

Taking phones from kids is only going to change the speed at which they can access porn. We found a way to watch it before there was such a thing as the Internet, and our parents didn't want us exposed to it back then either.

That said, I agree that a lot of parents are giving those things to their kids way too early.

 

I don't have any kids. And, I believe that I would be a parent focusing on transparency with my kids, if I had any. Having said, I agree with you on the too early part.

My friends that are parent, tend to voice complaint or discuss the challenges they are experiencing trying to keep their kids away from porn.

The problem is that like most of history, even the best control measures at home are limited to just the home. Kids venture out and not every parent shares or exhibit the same level of supervision or influence over his/her kid.


I remember hearing something late last week or early this week of a new app that woud allow parents to control mobile phone utilization and site acccess.

Someone may be our next 1%.

 

Right. You won't say what inconsistencies I've demonstrated, so it's just a vague accusation from you. :up:

 

Yep. The money follows the kid, not automatically go to some gubmint controlled district that then siphons off half the money and forwards peanuts on to the indoctrination station.
The idiotic straw man "what about creationism, flat Earth, blah blah" bullshit the LWNs always use is tired and based in zero fact. Like everything they love.
Allowing complete and free school choice would eliminate any of that, as well as eliminating the LWN indoctrination - which is the real reason LWNs hate vouchers and complete freedom of choice in the school system.

 

Common, you know I had to.

 

LWN hate vouchers because they want to have everyone subject to the preaching of their religions (global warming, statism, etc.).

Money is control and control is power.

 

Had I waited around for when my "parents" were ready to expose me to "adult" things... I would be living at home with neck tattoos and completely helpless like my 35 yr old brother. The irony of their exceptionally poor parenting.
Provide a good home environment for your child and treat them respectfully and face problems head on...I'm positive they wont be googling scat or donkey punch or redtube.

 

In my observation, I interpreted some of your positions/objections to be selective or of convenience. Inconsitency/consistency may be proven to be the wrong word.

I maintain true to my observation of your commentary on JL.

You found an easy target and went at it. And, in keeping with most LWN, you cited comedy to be excused. (I bet you don't like being lumped with LWN - but I think we should all taste our own medicine from time to time).

I am not going to go through your history. Not any time soon. What I will promise you is that I will be vigilant on the matter of my opinion/interpretation with respect to your joke.

If you jumped on someone for exercising the same freedom you did. I will be there to remind you.

 

My parents were too quick to introduce me to the most adult of things, consequence. I believe consequence is the end of childhood.

 

Maybe we members of society need to understand that there is sex education and then there's education about sex. The two do not necessarily meet. Parents main contribution to the education of their children is to teach those kids something about the moral implications having to do with the act of sex itself and let schools teach sex as it pertains to anatomy and the reproductive process. There is a distinct difference between the two.

Perhaps the education about the sex act itself, and the possible ramifications of it, would best be left to a professional educator that can discuss it without being emotionally involved. Most parents just cannot do that for no other reason than most kids will not talk about it with their parents. It's far too embarrassing for most parents and children. It would be ideal if all parents had the kind of relationship with their children that enabled them to discuss something this personal but we know that most do not. Teaching abstinence is nothing more than wishful thinking on the part of the person teaching it unless it comes from a parent. Even then it's not much more than wishful thinking. This approach coming from a professional group of adults within a school board is embarrassing to me and for parents to advocate teaching abstinence only simply reveals a group of parents that are scared of sex. Their motto is that if they ignore it it'll go away.

 

Yes, there is. Unforunately old friend, sex education in my time appears to have been very different than in your times.

The sex education that I was exposed to in High School had to little to do with anatomy and the reproductive process. That was too scientific, I guess. The education was more on social acceptance/understanding.

Ironically, I learned all about anatomy and reproductive system in 7th & 8th grade, in a Catholic school.

 

Just remember, rotary phones were insidious devices. They taught a boy how to stick his finder in things.

(I just cannot for the life of me remember what that sweet young thing's name was.)

 

If you're going to make sense, you're going to have to leave...

 

He has faith, in "yes w/protection."
And, "no worries, we have fix for that. It is your right, you know, your body."

 

Living by the river and scrap metal yards led to some interesting discovery.

My cousin and brother were out riding their push-pedal bike and came back with a few magazines. We gather a few more and six kids spend the best of a summer drying out wet magazine with a blow dryer during the day and getting educated at night.

I have spoken a few times about that find and the troubles it led to in Catholic School during Religion class and discussion of sex. When the nun asked, if anyone knew what masturbation was, I pulled an Arnold Horshack. She picked on me, next thing I was quoting Woody Alan, as printed in bold atop a page in Penthouse Letter: "It's sex with someone you love."

I spend the rest of the day reciting, "I don't speak English," to the head nun. That was the extend of the punishment. After that day, which was relatively early in the school year, everything changed.

 

You shouldn't presume, you'd likely be wrong, I'd guess most of the group got the joke.

As others have said the phones only make access easier, guess we should take away the computer tablets and give them the stone version.

 

If a parent does not know how to manage their childs phone then I would say neither the parent nor the child should have one.