Selenite: Well that's great! And it sounds like you were able to guide them and everything went smoothly...
There are some people out there though who raised kids AND worked in education and can vouch for the fact that things don't always "run smoothly" no matter how much parents love and care for their children. Because sometimes life throws in a wild card. It could take many different shapes like for instance private piano lessons where the teacher takes "a bit too close of an interest in the student not music related" and now you have a traumatised child who may not be able to talk about what is happening straight away etc. etc. etc. ...
We can't generalise with the upbringing of children. There is not just one set of circumstances and that's as it should be ...
Everything certainly didn't go smoothly, but they turned out ok. Apparently almost everything traumatises children nowdays. Perhaps people should stop running around being triggered and offended at everything all the time and put that effort into raising their kids.
InTheOutBack: Everything certainly didn't go smoothly, but they turned out ok. Apparently almost everything traumatises children nowdays. Perhaps people should stop running around being triggered and offended at everything all the time and put that effort into raising their kids.
You must be very grateful that your kids turned out ok in spite of everything not going smoothly.
I worked in education 30 yesrs when it wasn't ''fashionable to be offended at everything'' and trust me, some kids were getting traumatised by 'events' beyond the parents controle that influenced how they felt in their skin when they were teenagers.
Ones limited experience does not always provide a wide perception of what is going on in and out of other peoole's home and so one should refrain from having such harsh judgements on others from that limited perspective. Imo
Selenite: You must be very grateful that your kids turned out ok in spite of everything not going smoothly.
I worked in education 30 yesrs when it wasn't ''fashionable to be offended at everything'' and trust me, some kids were getting traumatised by 'events' beyond the parents controle that influenced how they felt in their skin when they were teenagers.
Ones limited experience does not always provide a wide perception of what is going on in and out of other peoole's home and so one should refrain from having such harsh judgements on others from that limited perspective. Imo
Selenite: People of whatever gender who heap expectations of how "a girl should look" on the shoulders of teenagers ... teenage magazines in particular ... fat shaming in whatever form ... etc etc ...
What I remember from my time in school is that we rarely had anyone overweight... And it isn't only the fat shaming today but the fat praising too... There's nothing healthy in any extreme and it should be stopped and not promoted as normal...
Ten_of_cupss: What I remember from my time in school is that we rarely had anyone overweight... And it isn't only the fat shaming today but the fat praising too... There's nothing healthy in any extreme and it should be stopped and not promoted as normal...
I didn't know they promote not healthy life, nowadays on a media. Well! I have seen a signs in my town "Embrace your curves"
Ten_of_cupss: What I remember from my time in school is that we rarely had anyone overweight... And it isn't only the fat shaming today but the fat praising too... There's nothing healthy in any extreme and it should be stopped and not promoted as normal...
I hear you... when I was young most kids were all a lot thinner than many kids today.
Many factors could be involved in the change apart from unhealthy diets as people get older. More and more people take antidepressants and there's a particular combination that promotes weight gain on top of the fact peoole who have depressive episodes might comfort eat.
I don't think that having a plus size model in a magazine promotes it as normal. Unless all the models in all the magazines were suddenly all plus size models. Which I don't think is likely to happen.
As for banned words on cs, there was a tread somewhere trying to find all the banned words I don't think any of them are a representation of words that may be 'banned' in most magazines ...
Nothing is ever black or white ... society and expectations are not what they used to be ...
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There are some people out there though who raised kids AND worked in education and can vouch for the fact that things don't always "run smoothly" no matter how much parents love and care for their children. Because sometimes life throws in a wild card. It could take many different shapes like for instance private piano lessons where the teacher takes "a bit too close of an interest in the student not music related" and now you have a traumatised child who may not be able to talk about what is happening straight away etc. etc. etc. ...
We can't generalise with the upbringing of children. There is not just one set of circumstances and that's as it should be ...
Apparently almost everything traumatises children nowdays.
Perhaps people should stop running around being triggered and offended at everything all the time and put that effort into raising their kids.