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⌈ Secret Post #2742 ⌋

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Re: Things you plan on doing when/if you have kids

[herpymcderp]

Teach them how to be good outdoorsmen, take them outside a lot to diverse places, let them learn to love nature and our planet so they can grow up realizing how important it is to protect it. Take them picking fruit so they can understand where food comes from.

Read to them, limit television. I can never thank my parents enough for not having cable TV in the house until I was 12. Movies will still be on the menu.

Enroll them in sports. They can choose whatever, but a sport will be mandatory.

Support their talents, whatever they might be.

Develop a mature and honest conversation about drugs, sex, and alcohol. Allow them to try what they want when they want with supervision and counselling beforehand. Make sure they understand the consequences of their decisions before they go blindly into adulthood. Raise them in a sex-positive environment and make sure they understand and are familiar with how bodies work from a young age.

Support their religious choices, should they decide to adopt a faith. Make sure they can voice their reasons for that faith and that they are aware of what they are getting into. They will be raised in an atheist environment, however. I am not going out of my way to introduce them to religion aside from historical aspects.

Enroll them in preschool. So very, very important for early social development.

Give them a pet when they are ready, preferably a small animal. Make sure they can care for it responsibly. Be ready to talk to them about death when the animal dies.

Introduce them to a wide range of music from a very young age. Introduce them to theatre and art. Allow them the opportunity to experience difference cultures.

Limit sugar, limit fast food, but don't deny it completely. Try to foster an interest in food and cooking and involve them in the kitchen. Give them the best nutrition possible and expose them to a wide variety of foods from a young age. Give them a choice of what they can eat, but do not allow them to categorically refuse food (ex. they may have one vegetable that they never have to eat, the rest is not up for discussion unless there are allergies or some other concern).

Try to parent like my parents did. They were incredible.

Re: Things you plan on doing when/if you have kids

[(Anonymous)]

What about internet access?

Re: Things you plan on doing when/if you have kids

[herpymcderp]

Undecided. I had computer time when I was a kid, but we only got a computer when I was 7 or so, and I wasn't allowed to spend all day on it.

When they are <10 it'll probably be supervised internet access, after that unsupervised. Not entirely sure at what age I think it'll be appropriate to buy them their own computer.

Re: Things you plan on doing when/if you have kids

[othellia]

There are definitely ways of setting up "child" accounts. Growing up my siblings and I always had unsupervised access, but only for one hour a day. I think I'd do the same thing.

And if they claimed they needed more for homework or whatnot, I'd make a list of greenlisted sites like the local library's online catalog, several news sites, wikipedia, etc.

Re: Things you plan on doing when/if you have kids

[herpymcderp]

Well considering a major part of discovering my own sexual identity/kinks/likes came from being able to have unfettered access to the internet around age 14 or so I think I'd be willing to trust my child with the same provided I felt like I had done a good enough job of warning them about safe internet use and felt they were trustworthy.

Before that, I would want a degree of supervision.

Re: Things you plan on doing when/if you have kids

[othellia]

I can understand that.

But at the same time, so much of the quality of my time on the internet was tied to the whole un-supervision. And it wasn't like I was doing anything naughty, but rather going on HP roleplaying sites and stuff. My three focuses were Harry Potter, Sailor Moon, and like Neopets. And I guess a part of me wants to trust that my kids will be responsible, like I was.

IDK, maybe I'd tell them up front that I may or may not check and every so often go through their internet history? That would require them not knowing what an internet history is though. And seems both less and more intrusive somehow than straight up watching over their shoulder.