JakeD:
This is so helpful. Thank you for the links.
I worry about my younger daughter, 12 who is very impressionable. She won't get a phone until 8th grade or later, but she has access to her IPad and my phone and my husband's phone. She is sneaky.
She was checking out Deviant Art on my mom's phone. So, I had her watch TV in my bedroom …
I worry about my younger daughter, 12 who is very impressionable. She won't get a phone until 8th grade or later, but she has access to her IPad and my phone and my husband's phone. She is sneaky.
She was checking out Deviant Art on my mom's phone. So, I had her watch TV in my bedroom so I could keep an eye on her and she started watching a bunch of anime. I would need a phD in computer engineering to keep up with her hacking skills.
This was back in 5th grade, two years ago and she had several non-binary/trans kids in her class (all biological females). Back then, we didn't realize the pernicious progression of this nonsense; we were piecing it together.
It seems to go something like this: pronouns glorified at school > Deviant art website > Discord > Anime > Tiktok> GSA (Gay Straight Alliance which is now Gender Sexuality Alliance -- although our school denied this even though they were well aware of the rebranding) > social transitioning > puberty blockers > "top surgery." Shriver discusses a lot of this. Have any parents seen additional pathways?
Yes, it's a dangerous world. I also have conversations, probably once a month about the perniciousness and the danger of the transgender ideology. And I contrast it with how the world was...oh, up until ten years ago.
And though they sometimes go around my methods of watching them (with the apps and such), and it's no fun punishing kids (they seem not to understand that we don't buy them things for the sole purpose of the joy we get from taking them away!), in the end, I feel a lot safer knowing that they're avoiding all the "crazy" out there.
Good for you! My husband and I knew that transexual "rights" were on the rise when our daughter ROGDed but never imagined it would jump out of the middle aged men category or be promoted in high school. Perhaps parents today do have one advantage in that they know they need to tell their kids that sex is binary - a too obvious fact for us to have thought of discussing in 2017. She chastised us for never telling her about the weird nonsense - like it was truth we kept from her.
I agree that safety controls are good. I also think that having kids use computers and televisions out in the open where you can see what they watch is best. Then, if something disturbing comes up you have a chance to discuss it. Pretty much all content on TV seems to be laced with GI now. You really cannot keep this entirely away from your daughter because it is the culture now. This is why I want to see GI debunked and a museum made to the atrocities that transpired. Something you can do is get your child busy with real things in the real world - especially in nature. Maybe she could get a small job dog walking? Or, is there a nearby farm where she might pitch-in? 4thwavenow.com came before PITT and the mother who ran that site sent her teen daughter to work at a horse farm & she desisted. Maybe a little preemptive dog walking would be good?
I've had my kids computers in the open and we use them all in the same room. Even my 21 year old, still living at home son still has his computer in the same place it was seven years ago.
JakeD:
This is so helpful. Thank you for the links.
I worry about my younger daughter, 12 who is very impressionable. She won't get a phone until 8th grade or later, but she has access to her IPad and my phone and my husband's phone. She is sneaky.
She was checking out Deviant Art on my mom's phone. So, I had her watch TV in my bedroom so I could keep an eye on her and she started watching a bunch of anime. I would need a phD in computer engineering to keep up with her hacking skills.
This was back in 5th grade, two years ago and she had several non-binary/trans kids in her class (all biological females). Back then, we didn't realize the pernicious progression of this nonsense; we were piecing it together.
It seems to go something like this: pronouns glorified at school > Deviant art website > Discord > Anime > Tiktok> GSA (Gay Straight Alliance which is now Gender Sexuality Alliance -- although our school denied this even though they were well aware of the rebranding) > social transitioning > puberty blockers > "top surgery." Shriver discusses a lot of this. Have any parents seen additional pathways?
Yes, it's a dangerous world. I also have conversations, probably once a month about the perniciousness and the danger of the transgender ideology. And I contrast it with how the world was...oh, up until ten years ago.
And though they sometimes go around my methods of watching them (with the apps and such), and it's no fun punishing kids (they seem not to understand that we don't buy them things for the sole purpose of the joy we get from taking them away!), in the end, I feel a lot safer knowing that they're avoiding all the "crazy" out there.
I liked this comment on today's PITT substack which is a letter to the NYT:
"Follow the money. The billionaire pritzker family makes money from trans drugs. Name, shame, and punish all the doctors who harm children: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-do-no-harm-part-2"
Good for you! My husband and I knew that transexual "rights" were on the rise when our daughter ROGDed but never imagined it would jump out of the middle aged men category or be promoted in high school. Perhaps parents today do have one advantage in that they know they need to tell their kids that sex is binary - a too obvious fact for us to have thought of discussing in 2017. She chastised us for never telling her about the weird nonsense - like it was truth we kept from her.
I agree that safety controls are good. I also think that having kids use computers and televisions out in the open where you can see what they watch is best. Then, if something disturbing comes up you have a chance to discuss it. Pretty much all content on TV seems to be laced with GI now. You really cannot keep this entirely away from your daughter because it is the culture now. This is why I want to see GI debunked and a museum made to the atrocities that transpired. Something you can do is get your child busy with real things in the real world - especially in nature. Maybe she could get a small job dog walking? Or, is there a nearby farm where she might pitch-in? 4thwavenow.com came before PITT and the mother who ran that site sent her teen daughter to work at a horse farm & she desisted. Maybe a little preemptive dog walking would be good?
I've had my kids computers in the open and we use them all in the same room. Even my 21 year old, still living at home son still has his computer in the same place it was seven years ago.