Search Parent24 for...
Welcome Guest! To enable all features please Log in

Notification

Icon
Error

music. my son. my (in)sanity
youngmum
#1 Posted : Tuesday, April 05, 2011 2:15:57 PM(UTC)
youngmum

Rank: Newbie

Groups:
Joined: 4/5/2011(UTC)
Posts: -1
Points: 15

Hello fellow parents

You must agree that some of the music getting airplay is quite distasteful. Tunes are really catchy but kids have no idea what they are singing about!

Sex, money, getting it on the club, bling and cars, and alcohol is the norm and the kids happily sing along to “c’mon rude boy is you big enough” or about “a beautiful death” or just about everyone singing about "loving that a$$ in that jeans” or ”winding and grinding up that pole” or “you can go up my crane girl” or kesha singing about “trying to get a little bit tipsy”, “bottoms up” and "big pimping"...

I am particularly against my 13 year old son listening to Chris Brown because of his much publicised abusive behaviour. When I recently turned the radio off and said "we don’t listen to chris brown in this house and we don’t support abusers”, his response was “but he didn’t do anything to us...”

I was dumb struck.

What makes it worse is that I have to have a chat with my son soon to tell him that the reason I’m not married to daddy is because he abused me when we were married…

What to do? What to say?
mikef
#2 Posted : Thursday, April 07, 2011 7:30:47 AM(UTC)
mikef

Rank: Newbie

Groups:
Joined: 4/7/2011(UTC)
Posts: 1
Points: 3

youngmum wrote:
.....
What to do? What to say?


You do know your kids are going to have sex, and there is nothing you can do about it. The only rational thing is to educate yourself about sex and be available if they have any questions about it. (And you will not find any worthwhile advice on sex from your holy books, try some other medium for good factual advice.)

Your children deserve this from you, even if you never got it from your parents.

youngmum
#3 Posted : Thursday, April 07, 2011 1:06:31 PM(UTC)
youngmum

Rank: Newbie

Groups:
Joined: 4/5/2011(UTC)
Posts: -1
Points: 15

mikef wrote:
youngmum wrote:
.....
What to do? What to say?


You do know your kids are going to have sex, and there is nothing you can do about it. The only rational thing is to educate yourself about sex and be available if they have any questions about it. (And you will not find any worthwhile advice on sex from your holy books, try some other medium for good factual advice.)

Your children deserve this from you, even if you never got it from your parents.



ERM... you clearly are not responding to my post?

The essence of my post was how can i explain to my son that abuse is not ok, especially as i was abused by my ex husband. His take on Chris Brown and musician and abuser is that it is ok to support such artists as they have not hurt us directly. How do tackle the issue of physical abuse - he does not know that this is the reason why i left his dad.
ir8m8
#4 Posted : Thursday, April 07, 2011 5:54:32 PM(UTC)
ir8m8

Rank: Newbie

Groups:
Joined: 4/7/2011(UTC)
Posts: 1
Points: 3

ok so you do realise that our parents did not like us listening to Iron Maiden or Depeche Mode or whatever the hell we actually listened to back then, but the point is that this is a generational thing and it will continue to exist throughout time. My kids listen to all the musix i listen to and they ask me to download what they like, if i enjoy it i add it to my playlist etc etc, i enjoy their music, they enjoy mine.
The thing that i try to instill into my girls when it comes to TV / Movies / Music, is that its just all fantasy world, and back here in reality we need to behave in a certain way, and we need to do certain things.

You made mention of Chris Rock, you seem to be very angry with the artist for the attack of Rhiana, maybe because it hits close to home, did you bother to explain to your son that he's had to undergo anger management, that a court ordered him to remain at a distance, essentially that there are consequences to actions. Also in my opinion and i am no shrink, you need to deal with your own issues and the trust that you and your son have, if he is going to be sympathetic to your argument then he needs to understand the facts, he needs to understand that you and his dad had an abusive relationship (that does not mean that daddy becomes a target), and you need to re-instill that daddy had a problem, its been treated, councilled whatever and move on. Stop treating him like a child because he wants you to see him as somewhat more than that.
MACKAROONEY
#5 Posted : Monday, May 09, 2011 1:56:45 PM(UTC)
MACKAROONEY

Rank: Newbie

Groups:
Joined: 10/26/2010(UTC)
Posts: 2
Points: 6

13 OF TODAY AINT THE 13 OF 1976 ,WHEN I WAS 13.
the advice would be the same.......be in your child's life ,open ,honest and loving......keep the channel open ,and he'll be fine !
Quick Reply Show Quick Reply
Users browsing this topic
Guest
Forum Jump  
You can post new topics in this forum.
You can reply to topics in this forum.
You cannot delete your posts in this forum.
You cannot edit your posts in this forum.
You cannot create polls in this forum.
You can vote in polls in this forum.