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The struggle against evil

I still shelter my kids when it comes to T.V. and movies.  We do not watch t.v., in fact, I was only allowing the kids to watch about an hour on Friday nights and a little on Saturday mornings for about 3 years.  About a year ago, I turned off cable completely.  There is no reason to pay that much for cable when I started a self defense class on Fridays and I started working on Saturdays.

My kids only hear bad stuff from school, their dad and his 3rd wife, and the t.v. or movies he lets them watch.  Caroline casually told me while we were eating dinner tonight that her dad's wife says that adults have the choice of saying bad words.  *great*  I told Caroline that we all have a choice and she has a choice to say any word she wants to and then I have the choice to punish her if it is a word that we have discussed and one that she knows is not a good word.  

I have started letting some words in, it's difficult not to.  An innocent movie can slip in a word and the movie as a whole is okay.  I have talked to my kids enough for them to know that there are more intelligent  words to replace the ugly ones with.

I just wish I wasn't being undermined by other adults.