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Originally Posted by Catdaddy33
I think we are going to try it this weekend, funny thing, we seem to be more nervous than she will be.
Back in the 70s, there was only 5-6 channels of TV and no uncut movies, no internet, they only way to communicate outside the house was the phone. Now we have 200+ channels 25 are HBO & Starz, not to mention On-Demand, and if that wasn't enough sex and violence there's the internet not to mention IM and e-mail. Back in the 70s my parents mainly feared that I would burn the house down, add in what we have now, I would leave myself alone until I was 18. Not scary...just different...
She's a bright kid and so far has a guilty conscience, she's real quick to tell on herself.
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But, I must point out that by the time I was 12 or so, I was sneaking down to the TV on Friday's at Midnight to watch CityTV's Baby Blue movies (full uncut on normal broadcast TV oh about 1972-ish) Plus as the decade progressed, all of my friends and I were into the so-called CB radio craze which was basically city wide chat-rooms full of all the sex you could want, including rendezvous if a buddy had a car or moped! this was our internet. A bit of an improvement on the Bell Telephone party line chaos.
Back then My parents were always out, to movies, dinner, what have you. I also baby sat alot in grade 9 or so.
As for my kids? Once they were about 11, we started to give them independance. That's when you can start taking baby-sitting classes, and I think the law in our neck of the woods supports children 11 and older being on their own.
But of course, discretion on the parts of parents is required. I have recently learned to block the router ports on the computer when I leave the house, to avoid being subjected to various sexually explicit downloads upon my return.