Is Phatmass Dangerous To Teens?

[kateri05]

[quote name='rachael' date='Feb 7 2005, 08:29 PM'] tacos, so very tasty and good for you,. ew. :angry: [/quote]
<<gasp>> how DARE you say such a thing! :angry:


<<all my tacos, so very tasty and good for you, leave and go cry>> :leave:

[Fixxer]

we as catholics, need to be informed of the evils that roam the earth to destory us, and other innocent people. I say the topics should stay.

[Donna]

Great question, dUSt.

The sharpest of my pre-pubescent bunch has brought up things to me quite ahead of schedule.

I had a fantasy...that they would be exposed mostly to purity...(we'd find that true Catholic school...[i][b]not.)[/b][/i] It is a futile expectation unless one aposatcizes and joins the Amish community.

The worst thing to do is to not allow a child that latency period, which is so sweet. I think the parent could be in a good place to judge whether the child is ready enough to see the more delicate threads on PM. BUT the only thing I know of the t/gender thread is what's in this thread; depending on the content, I might forbid it.

The worst about Phatmass (in considering my own child) is just what jas said; also, some people's posts are overly graphic when they needn't be.

PSPX, I think my husband'd agree with you, maybe fully.

As a mother, I don't think I'd have this [i]particular [/i]child on for quite awhile. Not until we had gone through the finer points of of 6th Commandment. This child will require [i]the why [/i]of Church teaching, over time. She's got eyes. All the classmates who come from divorced homes. That kind of child is seen as a lot more normal (2 parents + outside "love interests", or 2 sets of parents, for one child) than we are, trotting in many strong, no cable, no MTV, etc;

If the school was teaching sex ed (or even drug prevention), they'd be in the hall. How much (for a teenager) may be brought up by a routine visit with the doctor via Q's on the teen-health questionaire about guns in yo' home, access to birth control and STD's?

It would be cruel to not speak w/ them (teen or pre-teen) about weird things. That [i]is [/i]one thing I can do - acknowledge the confusion of living in an apostate world, [i]and[/i] give the supernatural and natural reasons for the wisdom of our Holy Mother's teaching.

Unless there is a ban of certain specific topics, parental pride of place could be compromised. But to ouright ban means that the stray souls, [color=red][i]including those from sound homes who cannot help disdaining parental involement for whatever period of time, [/i][/color]are left with...whatever they happen to be left with.

The world? Certainly. Virtuous friends? Maybe.

Parenting = humility!

My opinion therefore, at this time, is that the delicate conversations on PM are a necessary occasion of sin at worst. At best, they are Catholic hands, arms and hearts that that child may well hear.

Edited February 11, 2005 by Donna