Fine line..

So I've been thinking... Don't worry I'm O.K., there wasn't an overload..

 

There is a fine line in parenting. I think about celebrities and their actions, especially when I have to quickly turn the radio, because I don't want my kids to be exposed to a song where that celebraty feels that everyone should be privy to what there love life is or that they like to smoke what they can, whenever they can.

 There are those that feel that they have to express themselves and get it all out there. That they should be free to say or sing about what ever they are feeling, and they could care less who they offend. It is there right to express themselves.

This is where I start thinking. I am such a huge believer that the way you express yourself is the way you were brought up.

This could stem from one of two things...

1. Your parents constantly hovered, and didn't let you express yourself as a child, so as an adult you feel free to run around the world, with as much expression as you can possibly have, while you hope to be ticking your parents off at the same time.

 

 

OR

2. Your parents were "free spirits" and overly encouraged their kids to be free, to curse at the age of 3, flip off the camara because they think its cute, and spit out anything and everything they want.

 

So, here is my delima. Where is that line?

 Where do I stop hovering and let their free spirit flow, and where do I tame that free spirit and refuse to start putting flowers in there hair and pull out the camara when they give me the finger... which would never... ever happen, by the way.

 

I don't plan on walking past my kids when they spit out fowl words, but I do want their opinion when there is a subject that comes up for their opinion.

I mostly hope to influence them to understand their surroundings, to have respect for people around them. That to have an opinion is one thing, but to be careful about how you respond to other peoples opinions.

As you get to be an adult, your personal life is just that .. personal, and there are some things that need to be said and somethings that need to be kept locked away in your cranium.

 

I don't know, I'm still learning what it is to be free spirited and what it means to be a little conservative. Hopefully I'm not messing my kids up in the process, and they won't be on a stage somewhere in the future, trying to tick me off.