Teaching tolerance to our kids

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Registered: 06-16-2010
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.

Kevali


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Registered: 10-22-2009
Wed, 12-29-2010 - 5:48pm
"I am amazed at how many parents have allowed this. I can't tell you how upsetting it is to me, that people whom my kids look up to and trust, have broken the rules of FB and allowed their kids to lie, inorder to set up a FB account. It's something that I feel very strongly about, and I speak against it, on message boards and irl! I've also been known to report it, but fb doesn't seem to do anything about it. "


Could you please show me were fowl cast the first stone? Let alone a stone?
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Registered: 03-25-2010
Wed, 12-29-2010 - 5:53pm
Hey, if I had one for every time it was thrown my way! I find it fascinating to see what is going to happen next in my life or rather what I am told will happen. It reminds me of watching Fantasy Island as a kid, lol.
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Registered: 03-25-2010
Wed, 12-29-2010 - 5:55pm
I like mine so far, I've only really used it a couple of times for directions. It talks to me (in a lovely Australian male voice, winkie) and tell me when and where to turn.
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Registered: 03-25-2010
Wed, 12-29-2010 - 5:56pm
Then by all means, stop tossing those stones!
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Registered: 10-22-2009
Wed, 12-29-2010 - 5:58pm

That is what i was thinking...it seems to me what she was preaching

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Registered: 05-13-2009
Wed, 12-29-2010 - 6:01pm
How does not accepting a friend request mean that_fowl's "crack[ing] the whip and insist they obey social site rules".

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?
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Registered: 12-01-2009
Wed, 12-29-2010 - 6:29pm

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--

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Registered: 01-15-2006
Wed, 12-29-2010 - 7:11pm

honestly, i don't know what these kids' motives are.

 

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Registered: 04-16-2010
Wed, 12-29-2010 - 7:19pm
Does this mean that you aren't going to explain what you meant when you said "play God"?

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.
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Registered: 01-15-2006
Wed, 12-29-2010 - 7:24pm

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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