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To: LemonHead who wrote (9727)	12/28/1999 11:17:00 AM
From: triggerman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18928

Keith: Having been down that road and made the mistakes this is what I think. 1. The worst mistake I made with our daughter was letting her have a CD player and get into music at Tim's age. Kids naturally gravitate to the "sensational". If you let him have his own player in his room be prepared to monitor the music at all times. (He will still sneak it in). 2. Kids should not have their own TV in their room. 3. Kids should not be allowed to surf the internet unsupervised, i.e., no modem to their own private computer. 4. If I had it to do over again, I would not allow any of the above until at least high school age. 5. I've noticed a disturbing trend of parents trying to save their children from life's little bumps and bruises. They want to rearrange the rules. They don't want A to lead to B if it means their precious offspring might have to --gasp--suffer. The national tendency to bail kids out of every mess they get into is leading no where but down the tubes. We look around and wonder why so many of our young people are spoiled, self-centered, narcissistic brats. If we continue to pave a smooth road for our children, continue to shield them from the unpleasantries of their poor choices, we will end up with people unprepared to manage the reality of adulthood. Life is not a bed of roses and the sooner our children learn that, the easier it will be for them to navigate the road to adulthood. Make room on the soapbox. John