It's an interesting dichotomy
It's easier to condemn kids playing with toy guns as guns are used to kill living things and therefore represent violence, and we don't want our beloved progeny to grow up to be murderous thugs (generally). It's much harder to condemn tiara-sporting vacuous twats as they are, at least on the surface, harmless. This is also a much more difficult distinction to explain to a child.

And whilst people on here have a good point in saying "you can't force your tastes on your kids," I think it would be fairer to say "you ideally shouldn't." Because we all do it, however unwillingly.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:08, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Speak for yourself, pinko

( Kroney, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:12, Reply)

If I think my daughter's toys are vulgar plastic shite I will (and do) say so.
How else are you supposed to learn taste? It's no different from learning spelling etc to my mind. My parents were as merciless in their criticism of vulgarity as they were of poor spelling and grammar and it's made me the supercilious snob I am today. I am eternally grateful to them for this.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:12, Reply)

She is your daughter and as such deserves your input. (After all, you don't want her to turn into her mother...)
To say "they fuck you up, your mum and dad," is perhaps a rather cynical view of an important truth, which is that you will play an important role in shaping her personality. I'm quite glad of the way my own parents shaped me - sure, I've got my own set of problems and neuroses _{and massively benderish tendencies}, but they could have done a lot worse than they did. Just remember, she's your daughter, and it's your duty to fuck her up until she's the person you want her to be. After all, every parent wants to be proud of their child, and it would be much harder to be proud of a vacuous, tiara-sporting commoner.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:18, Reply)