tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-670426779858438488.post5725837582052240676..comments2023-06-16T16:08:23.446+01:00Comments on Edinburgh Housewife: Hope for Christmas TravellersMrs McLeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095035617334068201noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-670426779858438488.post-72639979199685714942014-12-15T01:09:28.977+00:002014-12-15T01:09:28.977+00:00I agree with you completely. I agree with you completely. Mrs McLeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18095035617334068201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-670426779858438488.post-76481565507202237912014-12-14T23:46:52.320+00:002014-12-14T23:46:52.320+00:00"...the parents of his pal down the street co..."...the parents of his pal down the street couldn't care less what garbage little boys get their hands on."<br /><br />Grrr. If I were Pirate's Mother, that would make me so mad (well, Pirate's Mother probably is quite angry about it.)<br /><br />I'm reminded of an episode from my childhood which I probably will never forget.<br /><br />I was about ten years old and had gone to a school friend's house for the afternoon. We decided to watch a movie -- for some reason, she chose one of the films from the "Scary Movie" franchise. She had seen it before. It was her father's video, I think.<br /><br />I felt VERY uncomfortable about the film. I mean, it's rated MA15+ for a few reasons (one being so that ten year old girls don't watch it.) I don't remember being too troubled by the violence (perhaps it wasn't that extreme -- I can't remember for sure, and I haven't seen the film again) but I found the sexual content very confronting. But as ten year old, I didn't feel comfortable saying "I don't like this and I don't want to watch it." I mean, her father was okay with us watching it, he knew we were watching it, and although I had a sense that my friend's father's moral compass was not aligned the way my own father's was, I figured that, well, he was a dad and he wouldn't do anything wrong, right? Dads don't do bad things, after all, right?<br /><br />Now, as an adult, remembering that episode makes me really very angry. How dare he let us watch that? I do recall, though, that my friend mentioned having found dirty videos or magazines in her father's cupboard. This was a nominally Catholic family who had their kids baptised and sent them to Catholic school.<br /><br />The message I've taken away from this episode is that if I ever have children, I am going to have to be very careful about the company they keep. Not necessarily because of the friends, who are, after all, just kids, but because of the parents.Juliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03992516879346846271noreply@blogger.com