Overly Protective Parent?

http://www.wesh.com/news/18453435/detail.html?wtf Overly protective, or does the parent just want to sue the manufacturing company?

 

I'd say the parents are trying for a windfall gain/profit.

My daughter went through the Barbie and the *uglier by far*Bratz phase!

The Tele, endorses the latest toys on kids channels. Take it from me - As an indulgent Dad's aftermath, I was busy throwing out all the Dolls once she was tired of them. Atleast 50-60 undressed or otherwise..

 

I think the mother should wear a belt that says 'Stupid Bi:***'. :-D

 

I think those are not an appropriate doll for a 7 year old so to Mom -- DUH!
How about a baby doll, something that urinates

 

I used to forbid my daughter's to have barbies. Why do they have to make them so sleazy?

 

barbies are sleazy now a days? damn MTV

 

Hi MichelleRH, and welcome to MGs!! Why do they make them so sleazy? Well the only opinion I can come up with is that sleaze sells!! The sleazier...the better in the eyes of the toy makers when it comes to dolls. They see $$ signs, and that appears to be the 'name of the game' in this day and age. I don't have a daughter (I have a son) but if I did and she'd want a baby doll, she'd get a Madam Alexander Doll, or something along those lines. My wife has collected Madam Alexander Dolls since she was a teenager, she's now:*** years old.

 

Think the word is supposed to be Glamorous, bling

 

Well my daughter is 17 now and I have to constantly fight to keep her from looking like a Barbie!--well not exactly LOL she isn't blonde and preppie but she is very tall and curvy and it seems the style for teens is suggestive so its always a battle. Thankfully my 13 year old likes sweats LOL. I am lucky with my son to get him to change his clothes. (He is 12) My 13 year old has always liked Bratz though--probably because they always look like they are pouting that that's her thing--to be perpetually pouting! ha ha. She wants the puter 24/7 to watch videos, so she is always mad to have to share it. Plus we have Magic Jack, and the videos take up too much resources to use the phone so several times a day she storms off in teeny bopper angst. :wave

I love Major Geeks--I have been getting utility software here for years and I never knew there were forums here until this week so I am excited!

 

My girls are all grown and have teens of their own now No one was/is really bad, it's hard to be a teen also hard to be a teen parent. With mine they all seemed to get huffy around 17, a magical age. rolleyes

 

Well maybe she'll be over it by the time she's 17 Laura, seems to take a lot of energy to stay miffed LOL
I remember when Barbie came out (yes, hush) people were up in arms her having breasts.
I do think 7 is a tad young to be a rocker but her mother is over reacting. She has a long way to go and lot's of rants coming her way

 

After reading the posts by Laura, Darlene, and Michelle I never realized how lucky I was to have only a son!!:-D Still, he's only 8 years old and I'm sure that the 'huffiness' and the 'miffiness' (is that a word?) is heading my way soon!!! Kids are great, aren't they? Taxing at times, but still there's nothing like them!!

 

Absolutely, mine were/ are my life. Kinda at a lost now that everyones grown. Especially the holidays. Usually some come but this year they decided to go other places, Disney World, Sea World. Nice for the kids to do something besides get a bunch of stuff.
Our eight year old is the youngest grandchild in the family, I imagine the last too til greatgrands start coming.

 

Not to rain on your parade, but my son informed me..(he's 12) that the boys have their cell phones at school and they download porn and show it around at school and they rarely ever get caught. I was pretty devastated to find this out. I'd rather have the barbie dolls!!!

My 17 year old has hardly ever been huffy because she has always had a very "tell them what they want to hear and then do what you want in secret" kind of personality. My 13 year old makes up for it--she was colicky as a baby--she cried for 6 hours a day every day and she has just kept going! In fact now at 13, she is starting to mellow a bit. Its funny how different they all are. People are such individuals--no two alike.

 

Yeah, I can only imagine how you felt when your son told you about the porn!! Actually, you're pretty lucky though. Your son was honest enough and trusted you enough to tell you about it. By trusted I mean he knew that you wouldn't 'hang him on the ceiling fan' by telling you!! My son pulled a sneaky one on me the other day. He asked me if he could go to his friends house to play. I said yes, AFTER he cleaned his room. I figured that would take at least a week!! I didn't know at the time, he then went and asked my wife the same thing and she said yes, not knowing that I already said no. Anyhow, when I found out, I called his friends house and told them to send Zach home. When he got here, I asked him why he asked his mother when I had told him no. He looked up at me with those big blue eyes and said, 'well Daddy, I had to get the answer I wanted!!!':-D Who can argue with that logic?? He was honest with his answer, so he cleaned his room and went back to his friends house. He promised me that it would never happen again!! (Yeah, right!!)

That makes me wonder...when do we lose that kind of honesty? My wife's under the impression that we never really lose it, it just gets misplaced as we grow older.:cry

"People are such individuals--no two alike"

You are so right, and what a boring world it would be if we were!!

 

At least he knows that won't work again :-D
I always told mine that if they told the truth there would be no punishment, believe me it was real difficult at times to keep that promise.
Got plenty of, "I don't know" that one is a ploy for time to think.

Clean rooms was a difference of opinion. They would say it was clean, I would say I'm going to check, they said, "ok, come on" then were shocked at all the things I pointed out. Not that I was a nit-picker mind you, it was , "whats all that stuffed under you bed, whats all on the floor, why won't your closet door shut?"
Once they hid a friend in the closet after I said she couldn't spend the night, I believe there were a couple of them in on that one.

 

One of my daughters was shall we say a late bloomer also. She would not in her words wear a top that looked girly. She rode her bike off steep dirt inclines, was more into animals then anything. Then one day she looked in the mirror and stayed there for the next 5 years. A whole different kind of drug. rolleyes

 

My oldest (17) spent all of her middle school years perpetually in front of the mirror. She seemed to outgrow it in high school because she is a drama queen now (literally--in every HS play and musical there is) and doesn't have time to preen in the mirror. Now my younger daughter (13) is in front of the mirror every opportune moment (plus we have alot of mirrors in our house!) must be the age!:confused

 

Good for her, what an esteem builder.

Mine became a physical trainer/ physical therapist (the one from front of the mirror)