Pro-tip: Parenting magazines should not be using the language of Pornography to sell shoes to kids. Just sayn. Thanks to the Bewilderness for the post.
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August 31, 2013 at 10:04 am
syrbal
Well, gee, now I feel even better about canceling a subscription back in the day when my kids were…well, kids! I thought the magazine had a venal, moronic attitude THEN in the 90’s ….I see it has not improved.
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August 31, 2013 at 11:48 am
The Arbourist
@Srybal
Yeppers. I’ve never had the displeasure of reading the magazine, but take this sort of endorsement by it as yet another signpost of how internalized and normalized patriarchal rape culture is.
*sigh*
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August 31, 2013 at 1:36 pm
bleatmop
One more perfect illustration of how what is popular is not what is right; that what is accepted is not always what is ethical. Now I just have to figure out a few of these examples to teach to my daughter as I never thought the “if all your friends jump off a bridge” example particularly compelling. Mostly because when I was very young I didn’t understand why jumping off a bridge was wrong and when I was older none of my friends were jumping off of bridges. They were doing things like smoking, drinking, and doing illicit drugs.
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August 31, 2013 at 1:52 pm
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@Bleatmop
Big Job.
I’m not going to be a parent Bleat, but I do teach troubled youth and I can relate what I try to teach them so they can be better human beings.
It takes confidence in oneself to have courage and to have character.
I’m not talking about the special snow-flake syndrome here, but the genuine self-confidence to make and admit mistakes is what I’m referring to .
Mistakes are how we learn and one must be unafraid of them because they happen to us regardless of our state of mind.
If learning from mistakes, being wrong etc, is part of a cycle of understanding it changes the dynamic of what you need to worry about.
Nurturing confidence pays dividends because the confident have the courage to speak up against what is wrong despite in-group pressures and peer relations. Thus, from courage comes character because taking and ethical, if unpopular stand, is how we at least in Western society define a good person.
Consider the saying:
“The standard we walk past is the standard we accept.
I know of few other statements that resonate so strongly with the building of an empathic human being.
I’d also advise fostering strong vertical relationships for your daughter – parents, coaches, mentors, instructors, Big Sisters, et cetera. It does so much to discourage the peer to peer interactions that can cloud the good judgement of children.
Lol. And most importantly, like any free advice, take it for exactly for what its worth. :)
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