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I let my kids listen to whatever music they want unedited as long as they are willing to listen to me tell them what the song is actually about (after my 9 year old thought a song on the radio about dropping things low was about the limbo) and as long as I never hear them use a swear word. I see no reason to dumb things down for them and they need to know that other people say things that they cannot. They still think shut up is a swear word 
The one I am actually really embarrassed about is that my oldest ds 9 was getting teased at lunch at school because instead of buying the individual baggies of crackers and such, I buy a big bag and separate them out to save money. He goes to a school where 90% of the kids get free or reduced lunch but we don't qualify so we pack. One of the boys kept telling him that we were too poor to buy school lunch or to buy the already packaged foods. My fiance finally got fed up and told my son to tell him that at least we can afford to feed our kids rather than the government......and I didn't step in and correct the issue. Keep in mind that I chose to send my child to this school because of the diversity and most of the DC kids I have are goverment paid and very low income, so I should have said something but in that moment I didn't.
The one I am actually really embarrassed about is that my oldest ds 9 was getting teased at lunch at school because instead of buying the individual baggies of crackers and such, I buy a big bag and separate them out to save money. He goes to a school where 90% of the kids get free or reduced lunch but we don't qualify so we pack. One of the boys kept telling him that we were too poor to buy school lunch or to buy the already packaged foods. My fiance finally got fed up and told my son to tell him that at least we can afford to feed our kids rather than the government......and I didn't step in and correct the issue. Keep in mind that I chose to send my child to this school because of the diversity and most of the DC kids I have are goverment paid and very low income, so I should have said something but in that moment I didn't.
: and they are 10 to 15 yrs oldas for the other comment. Good for your fiance, I'm sick of kids who get hand outs boasted and bragging about it. Our school paid for a child to go on a field trip, it cost 60 dollars and then she turns around and starts bragging how she got a new ipod and this and that and "why can't you do this or why can't you afford that"
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