"Am-mund".
That's how you say it!
Can't even shout, Can't even cry. The Gentlemen are coming by. Looking in windows, knocking on doors. They need to take seven, and they might take yours. Can't call to mom, can't say a word. You're gonna die screaming but you won't be heard.
Dream Girl ,'Bring On The Night'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Jesse - Mar 19, 2004 10:28:34 am PST #1573 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Skyzy - Mar 19, 2004 10:36:58 am PST #1574 of 10002
I say it "Awl-mund", possibly even "All-mond". Not sure at the moment. I have said it so many times that semantic saturation has taken place and I don't even know what the original word was any more.
Aims - Mar 19, 2004 10:43:52 am PST #1575 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
That's how you say it!
Is not!
Ginger - Mar 19, 2004 10:48:07 am PST #1576 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Is too! Webster's says it both ways, but ah-mond is preferred.
Aims - Mar 19, 2004 10:49:14 am PST #1577 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Pfft. What do they know, anyway? They have "ain't" in there.
Skyzy - Mar 19, 2004 10:53:08 am PST #1578 of 10002
Well, I think "ain't" is a correct word to use if you refer to yourself as "Ai" instead of "Iy" ... On second thought, it should still be "Ai'mn't".
beth b - Mar 19, 2004 11:13:03 am PST #1579 of 10002
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Seriously I think it is a parental responsibility to know what your kids are watching on tv and reading in books. How you deal with it is up to you. up 'til 3 or 4th grade my mom read almost everything we read then she couldn't keep up - but she and my dad still had a fair idea of what we were reading. When we started reading bodic rippers mom said " just remember , that's not what sex is like " ( that was a long conversation about sex in our house) . I have friends who won't let their kids watch thing that are too violent or scary - cause their kids get nightmares. I have a friend who turn off the power rangers, 'casue her son was constantly imitating them, to the point where it was becomming a problem.
I don't really think forbidding works. but choseing does. Kids need guidence. I think TIVO is a great tool for families. I was sheltered because I grew up in a very homgenous area, but not because people ept thiggs from me. I had a few bumps,but not too many. Some kids aren't thsat curious. others need to know everything now. I think you gotta know the kid.
deborah grabien - Mar 19, 2004 11:18:56 am PST #1580 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
I think you gotta know the kid.
Total agreement. Problem is, I don't think the "this is NOT WHAT WE BELIEEEEEEVE!" mindset is generally too compatible with the "Hey, this child is a person who will grow up and not be small versions of us, so we'd better start respecting that fact now" mindset.
Fred Pete - Mar 19, 2004 11:20:48 am PST #1581 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
Yes, and those are not parents who expect their kids to be anything but younger versions of themselves.
Boy, are those parents setting themselves up for possible surprises in, say, 20 or so years.
Betsy HP - Mar 19, 2004 11:53:03 am PST #1582 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Seriously I think it is a parental responsibility to know what your kids are watching on tv and reading in books.
Laugh laugh laugh splutter COUGH
This works until the children reach school age and begin borrowing books from friends and watching movies at school and at their friends' houses.
I was very shocked to have my 8-year-old retelling the plot of JAWS. He hadn't actually seen it, but a contemporary had and had told him all about it.
You can't control all the inputs in your kid's life. You can keep an eye on what happens under your own roof, but that's it.