Originally posted by: isaacmacdonald
Anyway, you say one thing but do another. You're praising yourself for admitting to mistakes in your life and not claiming to be better than anyone else, unlike others. Well, dear, reread your previous posts. Once again, you managed to argue that no one could possibly be qualified to have a view different from yours. First off, you don't even admit to any mistakes. They're mistakes in the view of the readers, but from your tone and view, your actions in fact should be the model behaviour mimicked by others.
You guys both seem to showboat a bit, but his posts at least seem grounded in a really open, honest approach to life. The above quote reads like character assasination to me, and its kinda ghetto.
Thanks Isaac, I will admit I showboat a little....maybe a lot
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I am extremely open from the fact I believe if I can show by example, people may learn not to hide/worry about things so much in their lives.
Things happen, it's part of life, you somehow end up losing a body part, loved one, pet, job, wreck your car, etc....it's just part of things that happen everyday. The fact is worrying about whether or not something bad will happen or suffering about it after it does, just takes away from the rest of the life that's left. Many people live in such fear of simply going to the store for milk in the middle of the night that they go without a lot of things living their lives by the rules other's have placed on them. I lived in a neighborhood of homes where the minimum was about $300k (the average in my area is about $200k I think maybe less)...there were still moms waiting with kids of middle school age for the bus, keeping their children in the car until the bus came...the wierd part of it all is technically they could have just driven them to the school (it's not far really and withing the 10-15mins of waiting for the bus they could have been there). I can see on a rainy day, but seriously how often is someone going to be abducted from a bus stop full of other kids on a street which happens to have a crossing guard 20 feet away. Already though this is developing adults with a unrealistic fear of the world, we were talking to a student about 18-19 and she had all these fears and hangups about situations that were totally wrong...kids believe their parents and if parents are going to misinform them and lie, they will grow up having the wrong information perpetuated.
Kids are going to grow up, they are going to have sex, they may do things in their bedrooms you would never do...but does that make it wrong, why is sex wrong anyway? If you are worried about the pregnacy end....get your child on the birth control pill and also teach them about protection, tell them that while you may not agree with what they do, you will not ground them for simply finding condoms or other devices in their rooms and you will not be counting them to see if they are using them (which doesn't work as if the kid thinks they may 'get lucky' and carry one, it should be thrown away if it's sitting in a purse or wallet pretty quickly so what will happen is they won't use them instead of risking getting in trouble).
Also some things parents say get very misunderstood by the kid....things like you are too young to have a baby, in response to a girl asking about sex for the first time. The daughter sometimes goes away thinking she is still 'sterile' but has not answers about what sex is like....so she finds a boy and tells him she can't get pregnant when he doesn't have protection. Trust me a 13-16 year old is not going to be thinking about AIDS and STDS really....the only STD's they will *usually* encounter at that age are easily treatable, they know this...they aren't stupid....pregnacy is going to be the biggest risk they will face by a long shot. Once you approach the 20's, sexual frequency in people is way ramped up, so STD frequency also is high and there is more risk to permanent non-life threatening STD's like herpes, HPV (non-cervical cancerous), etc and permanent and possibly fatal ones like Hep C, AIDS/HIV, and HPV which can cause cervical cancer, but still the average persons risk for any permanent STD is still very low even if the partner is infected....you don't want to gamble though, so you try to stay protected and avoid those with disease.