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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Harlock" data-source="post: 1108507" data-attributes="member: 4545">My parents gave me D&D stuff for Christmas and Birthday celebrations.  My mom and dad had this really unique, amazing and radically different approach to child-rearing called "knowing what their kid was doing and caring enough to set them straight even if it was embarassing".  My mom would always let me invite a few friends over to game at our kitchen table.  She' be in there cleaning, preparing dinner, fixing us a snack, or in the living room which ajoined the dining room reading a novel.  Amazingly enough she never heard one Satanic-Demon-Summoning-Orgiastic-Ritual-of-Doom.  All she heard was a bunch of 8-13 year olds using their imaginations playing a fantasy game where they could overcome the evils in a world and save the princess.  Imagine my surprise when all that crap in the 80s hit and one of my grandmothers telling my mom she shouldn't let me play "that" game only to have my mom say, "Mom, I listen to those kids play all the time.  All it is is playing a pretend fairytale.  I'd rather him do that than run around getting into trouble," and it was never brought up again.  My mom also appreciated the good marks I got in school for skills I learned playing D&D.  Now she and my dad even babysit their grandson (my three year old) occasionally on game day so my wife and I can game care-free.  I love my mom and dad; they cared enough that had D&D been evil they'd have gotten me away from it, but cared more still to make an informed and educated choice rather than be swayed by radicals and knee-jerk fundamentalists.EDIT:  And for the record my parents were Southern Baptists and when I was 23 I joined the "Mormon" church.</blockquote>

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