Melin-a Question

This is specifically for Melin, but may well apply to others here with children.

Melin, you said (in the “Youngest/Oldest” thread, I believe) that you let your sons read select threads that you’ve approved. Do you read the entire thread before you okay it? I’m asking because, well, I have a sailor’s mouth, and I do use expletives in MPSIMS threads from time to time. I’m going to start watching my language, because I’d hate to think that my hard work as a parent was being undone by some smart-aleck sneaking in a one-liner in an apparently innocent thread. The Pit’s another matter, I’m sure you’ll agree, but your other post made me stop and think (as did kelli’s in ATMB) about what goes down in these threads.


He weathered a firestorm of agony and did not break.
And while Yori raged against his unbending
courage, we took Kyuden Hiruma back.
His loss is great, but so is the gift his suffering brought.
-Yakamo’s Funeral

Hey, Flyp, if you were to do like Satan and send her a buck, would that make this the Melin-Dollar-question?

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Actually, Narile, I’m expecting royalties from the entire world now that we’re in the nextMelinnium. :wink: (No 2001 arguments!)

Please don’t worry about what you say here on account of my boys. The Eldest, who will be 15 in March, is very aware of what all the words mean and when it is and is not appropriate to use them. He’s heard 'em all down on the football field at school. He’s bright, funny, and at that delightful age when he can be embarassed at the very thought of his parents having had sex. :smiley:

Middle Son is 11 and a half, and he reads here very occasionally, and usually only when I’ve directed his attention to something that I think might interest him. He has met a few of the “old board” regs (Andrea, Jeff, Pam, Tyler, Melis), and so he is interested when he sees someone he knows (which doesn’t happen enough here, sadly). Overall, though, when he is on the 'puter he is much more interested in participating in Hogwarts on-line school games (you ARE familiar with the Harry Potter books?), chatting with his school friends, and checking Pokemon links.

Youngest Son (to be 10 in April) never reads the board. Occasionally he will read a post or a thread over my shoulder if I call him in for it (I think I might have done that for the Pokemon thread), but other than knowing that this is Mommy’s hobby, and having met the afore-mentioned regs, he doesn’t have much interaction here.

My husband and I do monitor what the kids see and where they go online. I know all their passwords, and always reserve the right to check their email and the history to see where they’ve been. I would not give the two younger ones free rein on this board; Eldest Son is mature enough that if he wants to hang here I have no objection – he’s learned some good stuff here, and that thread about colleges was great.

I do really appreciate you for asking, but please, don’t censor yourself in any way on account of my kids.

-Melin

Yikes! Lest I have offended anyone (bows toward Texas), let me not fail to mention that the boys have also met MajorMD and PUNdit IRL, too! <g>

-Melin

Hey, Melin -

Watch out, or you’ll blow your overprotective mama image. Especially that part about allowing your kids to meet that PUNdit weirdo.


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