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Terrible. Your kids and their habits are your responsibility as a parent. This is the stuff that makes California look bad.



You kids and their habits are largely out of your control. Between kids' media, other kids, religious indoctrination, and the majority of their time spent in school, the influence a parent has is fleeting, continually undermined, and an entire career onto itself if one is serious about raising their children and not simply letting it happen, with sporadic attention, as most do.


You're not the ONLY influence, but you are AN influence. And arguably the primary one. At some point you gotta stop blaming the billboard you pass by everyday and actually parent. Which is about guiding, not bounding your kids.

your fear as a parent shouldnt be them watching some raunchy YT video and falling into the wrong crowd. By that point you should trust your kid enough to know that that raunchy video isn't reality and to focus on what really matters. If your kid isnt at that point, well: you gotta do more guiding.

Don't' just give up and blame society. Get them the help they need if you can't provide it




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