Letters to the Editor
Lola Faire
Published Letters: 120 Editor's Choice: 9
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calcareous
[Read the article: MySpace, my attorneys general]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I agree with you that kids should not have internet accounts seperate from their parents. I don't feel that I will let my kids have a myspace.
You can trust your kids to go to the mall and not to get into the cars of strangers, you just can't trust the strangers at the mall and in the car to not be concocting up devious and convincing stories to get at the vulnerable and less wary of the world children.
To clarify I do not think that most people want to harm our children, but there is always that nagging suspicion in my head that those monsters do exist, somewhere, and much better off safe than sorry.
I don't even think that sexual predators are the majority threat on myspace, all different kinds of abuse can be occuring on there. Remember that whacked out mom who drove her daughters' former friend to suicide over myspace.
Maybe the kids should get off the computers (except for homework) and spend time with the family, they get plenty of social interaction at school.
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According to Lestat
[Read the article: MySpace, my attorneys general]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]who maybe doesn't have children? We should make all things available to our children and expect them to always make the right decisions. God forbid we put restrictions on them. I am very glad some peoples parents ingrained them with such commonsense at 13 that they would never take rides from perverted old men in limos. My experience as a child of a permissive parent who always told me how grownup and mature I was, oh and I was, is that sometimes it instilled a false sense of confidence so that when some shit actually happened I would be shocked and in over my head. But I was 16, so I should have been allowed to experiment with things as long as mom and I kept up an open dialogue... Or maybe mom just should have said No?
The thing is predators see that cocky pretentious and very mature kid for what they usually are just slightly naive about their own power.
The world marches on but that doesn't mean all that crap the other parents buy into is really such a good idea. A more family centered life is what promotes the well being and maturation of children. Be involved, have activities with you kids, have them involved in extracurriculars, have them apart of their tangible community. Not some BS website that shouldn't be available to kids under 18.
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Okay Lestat....
[Read the article: MySpace, my attorneys general]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I was saying that Myspace for me personally is not an option I will give to my "dumbass monkeys". I don't want it in my house. I don't think it should be available to kids under 18 and definetly not to kids as young as 14, but I will deal with my family and not call my congress rep about myspace.
It is rude and arrogant to keep insisting that I think my kids are morons who can't make decisions for themselves. I know how bright my children are. I also know that not every kid is an a-hole who disrespects the rules their parents set out for them. It is really cliche the notion that if you tell your kids "no" they are going to go out and do it behind your back. That is discounting the fact that many parents have deep relationships with their children and raise them with respect and their personal family values.
As for having restrictions that your friends don't: It is part of life that you don't always get to do what you want and that other people will be able to do those things. That is an important life lesson.
Please don't insinuate that I think my kids are morons, I don't, I think they are KIDS.
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This is IT!
[Read the article: Brave new grocery shopping]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Exactly what America needs, more mind numbing consumeristic gadgets and traps. It's a Brave New World.
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Brightstar
[Read the article: Quote of the day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You had me going there for a minute, I was thinkin it was really nice and less sexist than usual and then you blow it out of the water with that last line.
But overall I am impressed. :-)
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I would
[Read the article: Breast cancer testing for minors? ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I would test my daughter if that was a concern. There are things you can do, like limiting food on plastic anything, taking a more proactive stance on her diet, really looking into all the body products we use that are stocked with estrogens, that would be a huge motivator. We already do that but I would probably make organic dairy a bigger priority (Sometimes it is just too damn expensive).
I wouldn't tell my daughter until she was mature enough to know, little kids shouldn't be concerned with that, but once she had a pair of breasts it would be time for her to know.
I too would be very wary of who would get this information and how they could use it against you.
If we had national healthcare this wouldn't be a problem......
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Honestly
[Read the article: Brave new grocery shopping]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why can't we let our media indulged brains rest. I don't want to be watching my cart, not interacting with humans, being blasted with visions and noise. I just want to walk around the grocery store and think in peace.
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@ Julie Bird
[Read the article: Breast milk minus the breast]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I had almost the exact experience with my daughter and pumped exclusively for 6 months before she came around. I honestly despised my medela, and it could be very painful. And whoa nelly those boobies sure look horrendous under vacuum pressure (you really made me laugh at that old memory). I am pretty sure I scared off my baby sisters' teenage friend from trying to get pregnant when she walked in my livingroom unannounced and saw the gasping boobie sucker at work.
I felt that pumping was much harder than actual nursing and when I had my second baby I was sooo relieved we didn't have the same issue. Another thing that can happen with pumping exclusively is that your milk production can go down due to the fact that your breasts and nipples are not encountering enough stimulation. That happened to me after 4 months and I was really bummed that we had to supplement with formula.