What is with parents these days?

Snowflake · 02-03-2006, 10:47 AM

Colorado Parent object to student's exposure to opera video of Faust
the story here

God forbid they get exposed to classical music and maybe enjoy it? These will be the same parents who will think it's okay for their kids to go watch tripe on television, movies or video games.

Donna who is an opera lover and appreciates that most operatic plots are patterned after real life, violent, raunchy and crazy. At least the music is great!

Gemini Cricket · 02-03-2006, 10:56 AM

Good gravy. Are these parents saying that they themselves have no impact on their kids lives whatsoever? Can't they just explain to the kid, after they watch it, how it doesn't fit in to their own personal beliefs? Sheesh. Take some control of your kids and start parenting. Everything else it to blame for your kid possibly being maladjusted in the future. Bleh.

'Faust' is wonderful.

mousepod · 02-03-2006, 10:58 AM

Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.

This is the opera I want to see

Gemini Cricket · 02-03-2006, 11:06 AM

Sorry, I thought I was done ranting...

What do these parents want? Their kids to grow up in a world that only has sanitized parent approved content in it? That ain't gonna happen. Now this teacher is probably going to leave and be replaced by someone who will cater to their whims. That just stinks. I hope these kids grow up, move out and go to college, because they ain't learning about life from their parents. Their kids are going to be narrowminded, scared, unprepared automatons who won't know how to handle seeing someone in Goth makeup the first time they step into a Hot Topic.

Then again, this is sometimes how a rebel is raised.

SzczerbiakManiac · 02-03-2006, 11:08 AM

Colorado, huh? I wonder of the real fear these parents are suppressing is the fear that their little boys will turn into big fags because they listened to an opera...?

Amendment 2 anyone....

scaeagles · 02-03-2006, 11:17 AM

I have listened to opera. I am not gay.

Parents are stupid. A while back we hads a parent here in Phoenix mad that their kid had to read Tom Sawyer. The "N" word is in it, you know. Made her child feel degraded. Never mind that one of, if not the major theme of the book is the stupidity of racism.

I wonder if that kid in Colorado can listen to Charlie Daniels? "Well, the devil went down to Georgia, he was lookin' for a soul to steal....."

Ghoulish Delight · 02-03-2006, 11:20 AM

I knew a guy in college who refused to play Hotel California on his guitar because it was about cults and referred to the devil.

Gemini Cricket · 02-03-2006, 11:32 AM

My parents wanted me to take down a poster I had of Prince in my room because he looked like a devil.

This was like 1984 or so... right around 'Purple Rain'...

I also wasn't allowed to listen to Ozzy. "He's Satanic, you know."
Ha ha.

Ghoulish Delight · 02-03-2006, 11:37 AM

I've got another friend who grew up going to Disneyland at least once a year with his family. Then he went in jr. high or high school with some friends, sans family. His friends said, "Let's go on the Haunted Mansion." To which he said, "The what?"

His parents had not even let him know it existed.

SacTown Chronic · 02-03-2006, 11:40 AM

Mom lectured nonstop about the evils of masterbation and now I suffer from tennis elbow. Tabooism never works.

02-03-2006, 10:47 AM	#1
Snowflake lost in the fog Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: San Francisco Posts: 7,831	What is with parents these days? Colorado Parent object to student's exposure to opera video of Faust the story here God forbid they get exposed to classical music and maybe enjoy it? These will be the same parents who will think it's okay for their kids to go watch tripe on television, movies or video games. Donna who is an opera lover and appreciates that most operatic plots are patterned after real life, violent, raunchy and crazy. At least the music is great! __________________ Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. - Oscar Wilde
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02-03-2006, 10:56 AM	#2
Gemini Cricket ... Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 13,244	Good gravy. Are these parents saying that they themselves have no impact on their kids lives whatsoever? Can't they just explain to the kid, after they watch it, how it doesn't fit in to their own personal beliefs? Sheesh. Take some control of your kids and start parenting. Everything else it to blame for your kid possibly being maladjusted in the future. Bleh. 'Faust' is wonderful.
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02-03-2006, 10:58 AM	#3
mousepod You broke your Ramadar! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 4,635	Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. This is the opera I want to see __________________ "Give the public everything you can give them, keep the place as clean as you can keep it, keep it friendly" - Walt Disney
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02-03-2006, 11:06 AM	#4
Gemini Cricket ... Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 13,244	Sorry, I thought I was done ranting... What do these parents want? Their kids to grow up in a world that only has sanitized parent approved content in it? That ain't gonna happen. Now this teacher is probably going to leave and be replaced by someone who will cater to their whims. That just stinks. I hope these kids grow up, move out and go to college, because they ain't learning about life from their parents. Their kids are going to be narrowminded, scared, unprepared automatons who won't know how to handle seeing someone in Goth makeup the first time they step into a Hot Topic. Then again, this is sometimes how a rebel is raised.
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02-03-2006, 11:08 AM	#5
SzczerbiakManiac "ZER-bee-ak" Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 4,409	Colorado, huh? I wonder of the real fear these parents are suppressing is the fear that their little boys will turn into big fags because they listened to an opera...? Amendment 2 anyone....
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02-03-2006, 11:17 AM	#6
scaeagles I LIKE! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 7,819	I have listened to opera. I am not gay. Parents are stupid. A while back we hads a parent here in Phoenix mad that their kid had to read Tom Sawyer. The "N" word is in it, you know. Made her child feel degraded. Never mind that one of, if not the major theme of the book is the stupidity of racism. I wonder if that kid in Colorado can listen to Charlie Daniels? "Well, the devil went down to Georgia, he was lookin' for a soul to steal....."
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02-03-2006, 11:20 AM	#7
Ghoulish Delight I Floop the Pig Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Alternative Swankstyle Posts: 19,348	I knew a guy in college who refused to play Hotel California on his guitar because it was about cults and referred to the devil. __________________ 'He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.' -TJ
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02-03-2006, 11:32 AM	#8
Gemini Cricket ... Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 13,244	My parents wanted me to take down a poster I had of Prince in my room because he looked like a devil. This was like 1984 or so... right around 'Purple Rain'... I also wasn't allowed to listen to Ozzy. "He's Satanic, you know." Ha ha.
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02-03-2006, 11:37 AM	#9
Ghoulish Delight I Floop the Pig Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Alternative Swankstyle Posts: 19,348	I've got another friend who grew up going to Disneyland at least once a year with his family. Then he went in jr. high or high school with some friends, sans family. His friends said, "Let's go on the Haunted Mansion." To which he said, "The what?" His parents had not even let him know it existed. __________________ 'He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.' -TJ
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02-03-2006, 11:40 AM	#10
SacTown Chronic the myth of the dream Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 2,217	Mom lectured nonstop about the evils of masterbation and now I suffer from tennis elbow. Tabooism never works. __________________ Is it the fingers, or the brain that you're teaching a lesson?
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