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Originally posted by HamiC
Society will bombard your kids with so many things that you may not be comfortable with, but if you are not open and honest about those uncomfortable things, you will be leaving some very important lessons up to everyone else.
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Amen. No way I could have said it better myself.
I think what Eminem was trying to get across - and he's no public speaker - was that kids can learn at home or learn out of the home.
Nothing surprises me more than parents who insist on sheltering their kids. Don't get me wrong, I have no kids, so maybe I just don't understand. But kids today have the television, other kids, the internet, etc. They are gonna discover things, be told about things, that maybe their parents would have liked to get first word on.
It's just important, in my uninformed opinion, to make sure your kids know they can bring anything to you. Nothing is forbidden, put it out on the table, I don't claim to have the answers, and lets talk about it.
I'm not electing Eminem parent of the year or anything. But he seems to show a genuine interest in his daughters development, which is more than we can say for alot of celebs.