My mom wouldn't let me have a Ken doll because she didn't want me to play "dating" with Barbie. Maybe she was afraid there would be hot plastic sex in the toy box at night.
yeah I wasn't allowed to have barbie at all, someone did give me a Ken doll that talked once, but my mom ripped the cord out because it talked about dating or something, I don't remember.
We were not allowed to have Unicorns or troll dolls either. Cupi dolls were not a problem, my brother had one he played with in the bathtub.
We couldn't have guns or any squirt gun that looked like a gun. Back then, they did make squirters that actually looked like brass knuckles, now that I think about them, and we were allowed to have those.
The funny thing is, my parents never forbade us from watching R rated movies if they were violent, but if they had any kind of nudity, that was a no no. Unfortunately, we have done that with our son as well. I don't mean to say that I'd allow him to watch nudity, but I mean he isn't kept from watching movies like the Matrix or something like that. We do not let him watch things that are very gory though, but he is allowed to play any game he wants that is because it doesn't look the same as the movies do. He knows it's not real violence and I know he's not out inacting the stuff (okay, I don't want any crap from anyone over this so leave me alone LOL kiddin').
I think the reason we have not been so strict with him is because my parents were very strict and I didn't want to be that way with our kids. Also, movies that were R when I was a kid are probably pg 13 now, so not quite the same.
I always thought that my mom's thing about unicorns was stupid considering we were allowed to watch any Disney movie we wanted. My mom actually told me recently that we shouldn't let our son watch Harry Potter because of the sorcery stuff and I said, why not, you let us was The Sword in the Stone and pretty much any Disney movie ever made (except Bednobs and Broomsticks) and her answer was, well that's different, HP and B&B are real life, not cartoon and kids will want to reinact a real life movie more so than they will a cartoon (she doesn't know her grandson very well then cuz he's a cartoonaholic lol). I always thought that was so stupid! He's seen all of the HP movies and I finally saw B&B as an adult and thought, what's the big deal? Our son doesn't really like the HP movies because he can't sit still long enough and gets bored.
A friend of our family was having problems with spiritism and fantasy (she was really heavy into fantasy books because her reality sucked!) Anyway, she was having nightmares and such and my mom told her it was because of the unicorn pendent she wore around her neck and told her that she should get rid of it. I don't know if she ever really did, but she stopped wearing it to the KH and around my mom at least.
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