Trying to keep profane music from my kids' ears
I am the parent of four kids: ages 11, 9, 6, and 2. They are learning and trying to make their way in the world. It's my wife and my job to raise them in a way that makes them the best possible people.
We do not live in a bad neighborhood. In fact, we live in a pretty darn good area. There appears to be no gang activity, no drugs, and it's relatively graffiti-free. So why is it that whenever I take my kids to the store there is inevitably some idiot thumpin' his gangsta rap all up and down the mall parking lot?
I was taking my kids to the grocery store and Dollar Tree and we were crossing the main road that runs out front of the mall. Some guy in a lowered, pimped out white Camry -- windows down, no less -- listening to "F**kin s**t mother f**ker keep your mother f**kin s**t in your mother f**kin b**ch...". You get the idea.
People who are so insensitive to other people's sensitivities drive me crazy. if he wants to listen to that crap that's fine... but why does he have to share it with my small children? The collateral damage that is done by his unthinking attitude is really frustrating. I try so hard to keep my kids swear-word free -- not because I'm sheltering them but because they're too young to start bustin' out the bad words and attitudes. There are incredibly bad words, ideas, and attitudes in this music. Stuff I don't want my kids to know about.
I know it's an unattainable goal but can't people just turn that s**t down?