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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 5029179" data-attributes="member: 54707">As long as I'm cleaning my handgun whenever boys visit, I get to pick my daughter's husbands, and they don't marry til thirty (when I think most people grow up nowadays) I suspect most everything will be okay.But more seriously, I know people who think Harry Potter is Satan's breastmilk (I think for the most part it's a Christian allegory) , and that D&D was invented as a gateway to Witchcraft and Nerd-dom. (I am still being partly facetious).But more seriously still, I appreciate the warning and I never turn down advice about investigating a thing for myself. So I'm gonna.It may turn out being something that I would have understood the basic idiocy of as a teenager, or maybe even generally sympathized with (rebel against the Man), but nowadays being an old man and a father myself, won't necessarily approve of. Then again there's a lot of things I don't approve of I can't necessarily eradicate, nor would I necessarily eradicate. (Though I would eradicate some things if I could.)The thing to me about being an old man and a father is you gotta give your kids enough room to be teenage idiots on their own (remembering that you were one too), and so not cause them to rebel too much against your stifling tyranny, and still lay down enough guidelines that they won't want to rebel in serious and detrimental ways, because they have decided that it's fine to be dumb in one's imagination, but it's better to be upright in one's character and behavior. That is I'm okay f they fantasize about being stupid and reckless every now and then, as long as they conduct themselves wisely and honorably. I'm also not against ideas about bad conduct being presented forthrightly, cause it serves as a moral warning, as long as corrupt behavior is not presented as romantic and honorable behavior, or as long as corrupt behavior does not remain static and unchanging. As a Christian I'm happy to see bad and reckless behavior transform over time into responsible and far better behavior.But that's just me. Then again I have the whole difficulty of having been a wild-ass boy (though not really an intentionally bad one, but certainly wild enough at times) and still trying to raise daughters who think that now I'm some kinda Victorian who doesn't want them to have any fun or try anything dangerous or exciting. (Truth is I don't want them to when it comes to sex and drugs. I don't even like most of their music.)It's always a balancing act I guess. But luckily they're good kids, and I got a pretty good wife to help me out and I don't think she'd let em get too far outta hand. I do miss them being about 5 or 6 though. It was a whole lot easier back then.But I'm gonna try and read one of those books and watch one of those movies (God help me get through it), just to see what all the hub-bub is. The things we do for our kids. Still, my parents had to endure me (and still do), so I guess everybody has their cross to bear.</blockquote>

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