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AUTHOR: gabriandemmasmomDATE: 12/10/02 12:04pm
SUBJECT: Your Feedback Please
Hi Everyone,

I've been on these message boards a little over a month now and I gotta say, I'm appalled at the amount of garbage that is allowed to be posted and even more appalled that some people actually take this stuff seriously.

What am I getting at? For instance, in the "school age" message board, under "sex and sexuality" there were some mothers discussing the issue of their daughters masturbating and whether or not that was normal.
Now most parents know it is and instruct their children to do these things in private.
But what got to me what hearing that one mother actually gives her daughter her personal vibrator to use when she does well in school! Is that disgusting or what?
Not only is it unsanitary to share stuff like that but her 8 year old should not even know about that stuff yet. I question whether or not that child is being abused.
There is another mother who claims her 15 month old son plays with himself and was concerned that this was also abnormal - which it is not!
Another mother comes along and says "Oh my son does this too and it's perfectly normal - sometimes I even HELP HIM!"
UNBELIEVABLE!

I hope these kids slap their parents with a gigantic sexual abuse lawsuit when they figure out what was really going on.

Thirdly - in the toddler board, a fellow claims that his daughter is 5 and still wetting her bed.
This happens to some kids and I wasn't at all surprised about it - what shocked me was that in another board "preschool" - the same person claimed to be 53 years old and still wearing double diapers and plastic pants to bed and likes it. Can we say "diaper fetish" maybe? "Adult baby"?
Now I got to wonder if that 5 year old child exists and if she in fact does - what is he teaching her? If she in fact does exist - think of the emotional scars that will be left because of this. Who else will teach her that wearing diapers at 53 isn't exactly the norm? If someone has a fetish, fine, but lets hope they keep it to themselves and not force it onto an innocent child who is defenseless and doesn't know better.

This message board is for parents who are genuinely concerned about their children and I for one am really tired of the game players.
There are plenty of sites for people with weird fetishes but this isn't one of them.
I know that kids come in here and fool around - sometimes that's blatantly obvious, but we need to speak up against the adults who come in here to make a mockery of parenting.
Our job is not easy, though we love our children dearly and would do anything for them - it is not helpful to allow people to come in here to make light of the most important jobs we'll have in our lifetime - and that is to raise responsible, caring, and loving children and make them successful adults who in turn will treat their own children with the same committment and love that we did.

If any of you agree with me on this, please speak up and lets let the managers of this website know that we want this site to retain the integrity and value it was meant to have.

Thank you everyone!

Disgruntled Mom
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