Oh my...really you let your kid do this....at 3.
I wonder if the decision I make for Ri is going to cause problems. I guess it is something I have to live with. But I do not want to shelter my son from the world. My father sheltered me....excuse me...imprisoned me from the world. So when I hit it on my own I hit it hard. I drank, I smoked and yes even tried drugs. I am not proud of this fact, but I learned the hard way. I learned on trial and error. This almost got Shane and I into and accident after I had a night of drinking way to much tequilla and then almost taking a dive off a 3rd story balcony because I walked out the wrong door while high. Now with that being said, I do not want my kid to drink or do drugs. But I want him to know what is out there. I want him to feel that he can ask me questions and I can answer them. So how does all this play together?
As we are watching these movies/shows I am talking to my son. When he sees something in life I am talking to him. I am not blindly letting him see these things. I will continue discuss with him between fake and real....between right and wrong. There are things that I will absolutely put my foot down to.
I want my son to know I am here for him to ask questions. I want him to learn from my mistakes as I have learned from my parents.
In the end, if I am parenting my child unwisely I guess I will have to live with it. Otherwise I just love seeing people's faces when I tell him he watches Night of the Living Dead. Really folks it is just chocolate syrup and roasted ham......Bwahhahahaha!
first of all, i must really love you. this is my FOURTH attempt at leaving a comment tonight. ;O
ReplyDeleteok, here goes nothing...
the title sucked me in...and the subsequent post did not disappoint! :)
MY. SENTIMENTS. EXACTLY. :) EXACTLY! :)
i too felt dismally unprepared for real life. i too vowed i would try better to prepare my kiddos.
i just made my bigs watch the hangover. to my mind, much, much, MUCH better to watch it at home with a parent the first time. we can talk about it, discuss things.
i have always been very real with my kiddos. i talk to them. share things with them. too much perhaps sometimes, but i also think that sometimes we tend to swing the pendulum perhaps too far the other way :) in providing for our kiddos to try to make up for what we feel we were shorted in our own childhood. that is almost a parental rite of passage, isn't it?
anyway, who knows in 18 yrs where a discussion that begins with night of the living dead might end up? with ri inviting someone to church? or having a truly life-changing discussion? :) you just...never...know.
i think to make a difference in this world, one must be connected to it. keep on watching zombies ri! :)
soul. sisters.
and btw most of the time you have excellent taste in movies my dear! :)
You have pretty awesome taste too! Hangover really! It is too funny!
ReplyDeleteThanks! Makes me feel a lot better hearing it from a super mom like you!!