Are you "Anxious Parents"?

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Registered: 06-30-2006
Are you "Anxious Parents"?
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Wed, 11-15-2006 - 8:24am

Today's MSN News features this article

Sabina

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,

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iVillage Member
Registered: 12-06-2004
Sat, 11-18-2006 - 12:23pm
I'm sorry you have such a hard time believing it but I still live in that same town.

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-27-2003
Sat, 11-18-2006 - 12:24pm
I've never understood why people want to put *respect* and *fear* togeether as if the two are synonymous. Being afraid of your parents is absolutely not the same as respecting them.

Dj

"Now when I need help, I look in the mirror" ~Kanye West~

iVillage Member
Registered: 12-06-2004
Sat, 11-18-2006 - 12:38pm
So because my dd is a cheerleader, and gets her nails done while I get a pedicure, likes to shop with me that means she is being treated like an adult?

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Sat, 11-18-2006 - 12:46pm
OK, around here they are not typical girly things. My 14yo has never had a manicure and I have never had a pedicure either. Some of the girls wear make-up, even dd, but it is usually just eyeliner. There are a few girls in dd's school who are all dolled up, but those girls are generally looked down upon by the rest. The school is a junior high, so the kids are 12-14. I have never heard of cheerleading aorund here. I guess it exists for professional teams, maybe, but it is not a kid activity.
iVillage Member
Registered: 12-06-2004
Sat, 11-18-2006 - 12:46pm

What in the world is wrong with Cheerleading at a young age or getting nail polish put on her fingers.

iVillage Member
Registered: 01-15-2006
Sat, 11-18-2006 - 12:52pm

i disagree.

i feared my parents,followed their rules hence respected their rules......kids my age who lied to their parents or their whereabouts,maybe not so much.

 

iVillage Member
Registered: 12-06-2004
Sat, 11-18-2006 - 12:53pm
Ok, the general area I live in has the highest concentration of possible terrorists.

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Sat, 11-18-2006 - 12:57pm
Michigan? In any event, we agree. Besides, why would they blow their cover by offing you while you are getting gas?
iVillage Member
Registered: 12-06-2004
Sat, 11-18-2006 - 1:03pm

Well I am sorry you are missing out.

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Sat, 11-18-2006 - 1:05pm

I do not like nail polish and do not want to teach my dd that it is a nice thing. I do not forbid it, but I will not promote it either.

As far as cheerleading, I find it extremely distasteful. Chalk it up to my being a horrid "furriner." I sometimes joke that I moved abroad so that I would not have to deal with the possibility of dd perhaps wanting to cheerlead. That is not the reason we moved, but, for me, it is a pleasant fringe benefit.

However, I am absolutely sure that plenty of fine, outstanding women did cheerleading at some point in their lives. My real point was that if something is truly distasteful or upsetting to me, I will happily move somewhere else where I won't have to worry about it for my child. When you have kids, I think it is important that you are at ease with the environment, school and people your kid will grow up in and around.

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