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Let's not forget some of the sexual stuff on here. I mean she could see Alurna's Rose stuff, and we REALLY don't want her influenced by that. I would be VERY strict with what I let her do on the internet. I also would NOT let her get a cell phone until she's AT LEAST middle school, if not High School...

Soooo
On a LIGHTER note...

What ya'll doin for Halloween?

i am working a 10 hour shift on halloween......yippie..............

I dunno If I have to work on Halloween yet, But if I do I'm callin off sick!
Aint no way I'm working on THE best Holiday EVER!!!!

Here's a little fun fact, did you know back in the day that Christmas was celebrated much in the same way as Halloween? In fact if you didn't give them treats, they would play some rather nasty tricks on you.

...I would say that the kids-dressing-sluttier isn't really a moral issue...^^' At least not in the way that you are presenting it. [morals and values are subjective anyway]. It's just a cultural trend that America is going through right now...and it may or may not be to people's taste. Although our culture is also pretty deficient in the morality department if you ask me.

The sexualizing of children [girls, really] has to do more with our beauty culture and what people find desirable. I would argue that it is wrong in that it promotes ideals than not everyone can attain [you know, because only *attractive* kids will successfully pull off such looks]...and it probably encourages *****, but I don't really know. It is creepy seeing kids dressed like Bratz dolls. But if you just think it's inappropriate, why? Because the kids looks "slutty"? How do you know they have no other values? Such looks are already mainstream and probably won't be viewed as "sexualizing" looks in the future.

Though I would agree the celebrities kids worship these days are sickening and the kind of marketing that is geared towards children is annoying. ^^'

And I wouldn't say parents buying their children these clothes are immoral [or even that they also only care about their kids being popular...that's oversimplifying the issue]...more like such parents are just irresponsible, if you believe kids shouldn't be dressing this way.

I just don't get what morals you think kids should be taught...how to dress?

That's was a bit surprising to hear that from Yami, but that's a good thing.

Morals are hard to find these days and the fact that the children are idolizing the country's moral sewer makes it all that much easier to make these kids go willingly into the new area of sexualization, a ***** wonderland. And parents are so worried about their children becoming victims, well sending them out dressed as bait isn't decreasing those odds any.

And these kids fail to realizes there is no such thing as "Safe Sex, Safer Sex or Safer Forms of Sex". If they would actually read the condom or birth control disclaimers on the back in small print. And a**l sex is the most dangerous form of them all.

I was reading a letter by John Quincey Adams to his then President of the United States & Founding Father, John Adams. He was age 7 when he wrote it. Its was more articulate then most adults these days. He was using using large words. He even felt that he needed to be more accountable with his time (too much time playing) and that he wasn't rising up to the exceptions of himself. He even expressed in the letter that his ability to write the letter wasn't good enough for to bother his father to even read. Nowadays, most children at his age are just learning to spell five or six litter words with basic meanings and forget about basic respect. I only mention this because I feel part of the problem these days is that our education standards have become so pathetic and the teaching of respect and exceptions of self-achievement are all but non-existent anymore. People of good character are called bigots (because they teach morals) and the celebrities (despite the fact they live deplorable and wretched lives or are a drug addict) are Gods because they want to save the environment and dress like porn stars.