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RudeBoy: I agree most porn is fairly harmless, even fairly extreme stuff, but only to mature and experienced adults not to 11 year olds who have no context to put it in.
I'm not pro-censorship and I'm well aware that "protect the children" is the battlecry of the censorship lobby.
But I'm not sure I know what the answer is. Probably talking to kids about porn is a good start.
sweet , harmles fun , when i was that young , mine had the SS uniform the lot , must agree with mogrim. get a grip people its a toy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I agree totally (how TF has this turned into me [i]not[/i] arguing with someone?). Likwise, I believe, with guns and war. Trouble is, whereas sex is something all parents will have sperience of, war and violence is not, therefore it maybe difficult to put it into a context a child can understand. And I'm not keen on the idea of showing them pics of war, or the results of violence.
I don't think the MOD releasing Action Man style toys is a particularly healthy and progressive idea. I fail to see how further encouraging children to see war as a 'game', is all that positive for their development.
I dunno. I think Trimix made pretty good points about learning conflict resolution, consequences, teamwork and so on.
But I'm going to bed so I'll leave you to debate that with someone else 🙂
Rude boy, left to their own devices children will tear lumps out of each other - it's in their nature. You don't have to explain violence to them, you have to explain non-violence to them.