[zapp196]

I personally had/have much parental control in my life. they taught me to use discernment in what i watch and do. I personally lost taste for most all movies and TV. I love my music though. I have to pay attention to what i hear. I enjoy my shooter games.

My parents taught me to be careful when i was young and slowly allowed me more freedom as i got older.

I think it is up to the parents to chose for there kid when they are young. when you train a kid when he is young, he is less likely to do what is wrong.

btw, i am 18 (barely) an i am a freek. J/K

-Shalom

[Mission:Africa]

I was pretty sheltered as a kid. In regards to anything. I remember when I was little about 4 and all my friends were watching a movie (an animated Disney moive ) that my parents had seen and said that I couldn’t watch it. So I went over to a friends house to play and they were going to watch it and I lied and said I could. We had made a tent with a blanket and their coffee table. I remember being scared and hiding under the table saying to my self over and over, ‘I should not be doing this, I should not be here!’ My folks found out, when I came home looking like a ghost. And months and years latter I still had nightmares and night-tares. But needless to say WHENEVER they have said no, I have no problem with that. I made the mistake when I was young and when I didn’t hurt and the results weren’t that big of a deal.

But one rule that we have tried to live by, but don’t always uphold to is; does this glorify God? That limited stuff pretty fast. But as I’ve gotten older the choices have gotten wider. I will ask my folks and they will say, ‘I’d rather you not, cause blah blah…but you can do what you want.’ I don’t know, when they give you the facts and believe that you are old enough to choose the higher road, you live up to what the Lord convicts your heart of. That kept me from watch a lot of different things at friends houses.

Or you could do what my mom does; pray. We were going to watch a movie with my dad that we had watched at a friends house with a movie filter, but we don’t have it. My mom really didn’t want us to watch it. So she prayed that we wouldn‘t watch it. And our TV Guardian that blocks out foul language wasn’t working, for no reason but It worked on everything else! So with that not working watching the movie was out of the question.

That even happened with a book that I was reading. My mom didn’t want me to read it and she said “If the Lord convicts your heart, will you stop reading it?” I said I would, but then one day I just had no desire to read it. So I stopped, I don’t have any interest in reading it. And this thing has happened more than once. I wanted to do something and my folks said that they would prefer me not to, but I had the choice. I go to do it and they would pray…and one way or another it never happened.

Pray for your kids, pray the Lord would convict their hearts and give them a high standard to uphold for Him, that’s what has worked best for our family. And also my parents hold the same rules to themselves as they apply for us. They have never asked us to do anything that have not done or will do not do themselves.

That is just my thoughts on it from a kids view.

Sorry it’s long. And you kinda have to pick out my opinion out of the examples and stories. Hope that helps a little bit, if not hope you get a laugh out of the first part. =)
Lord bless ya’ll