Teaching tolerance to our kids
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| Mon, 12-27-2010 - 4:06pm |
The discussion in the other thread about gay marriage (OK, it wasn’t so much a discussion as an attack on granitestategal, plus the last time I checked it had devolved into mumbling and maniacal laughter...time to move on!) got me to thinking about this new generation of kids and how things have changed for them. Technology has exploded, and kids are more connected than ever before. They’re also disconnected in a whole new way, but this thread isn’t about that. I’d like to know what we are teaching our kids as far as tolerance for other religions, races and lifestyles.
My parents were brought up by parents who were extremely prejudiced against non-Catholics and non-whites. My great-grandparents must not have passed along the lessons they’d learned as immigrants themselves. The town we lived in was predominantly white and Catholic, and up until high school I didn’t know anyone who was black, Jewish, Hispanic, or gay*. When I moved away from home, I was blown away by how different people outside my little world really were, and fascinated by it. I was, and am, determined to raise my kids to respect and appreciate the differences of others and to understand that deep down we really aren’t that different.
A few years ago when DS was 4, we ran into the husband of a co-worker at a music festival. My co-worker is also male. I probably went overboard in my introduction, but I wanted to get the point across that it’s perfectly OK for some families to consist of 2 dads or 2 moms, or one parent, or parents of different races/religions.


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Could you please show me were fowl cast the first stone? Let alone a stone?
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That is what i was thinking...it seems to me what she was preaching
I'm pretty sure that they happily go on and continue to gather other friends in their facebook community. If by playing God you mean you accept/decline friend invitations based on who we want to share information with, don't we all do it. Isn't that the nature of the site?
i have accepted friend requests from teens (legally on FB) that I know from theater and doing a show with them - not just if they did a show with my dd-- I do not accept fb requests from my dd's friends who are 1) on FB by breaking the rules and 2) have no relationship with me other than as my dd's mom--
honestly, i don't know what these kids' motives are.
Really, as far as I could tell, your response to me had absolutely nothing to do with my post. If I'm missing something, it would be nice of you to point it out.
my DD has a diverse group of friends over there, from friends in old cities we used to lvie to school friends to parents of friends in her 4H.
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