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Originally Posted by 33girl
I didn't mean the article was pertinent to YOUR SITUATION PERSONALLY....I meant it was pertinent to the thread in general. Sorry you misinterpreted.
I knew darned well my parents weren't indifferent. I just continue to be amazed at the degree of involvement parents today have in their kids' social lives - things like drinking and sex, that is - with the kids themselves initiating much of it. There were always parents like this, but nowadays it seems the rule rather than the exception. I'm not saying it's good or bad - it just is very, very odd to me, the same way television was very, very odd to 80 year olds in 1950.
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Gotcha!
I have no idea why my kids feel like they can open up to me about private matters..I have no parenting ideology to share and I don't think that it is something that I cultivated intentionally. My feeling is that sex is so pervasive in the media that teens do not feel that it is a taboo or awkward subject like it used to be when I was growing up. I think that I feel more awkward talking about it than they do! And I have another hunch that I am going to put out there: kids lives are far more an open book than they used to be in the days before the internet, AIM, and Facebook. With all of this comes the ability for gossip, lies and secrets to be exposed and spread with lightning speed. Did you ever have a good friend betray you somehow via AIM? Ouch. IMHO parents provide a stable force that kids can count on, always there, always loving no matter what. I did some stupid things when I was a teen and in college but they weren't blasted all over the internet via Facebook pictures or heaven forbid Juicy Campus. Perhaps kids talk with their parents more now about personal matters because they know it won't be spread via AIM or other means. Am I making any sense or just rambling....I have a cold and I feel like I may be rambling
