Fogghorn wrote:
Just curious Chris, do you ever play Cards Against Humanity with your kids? And if so how old were they when you first played?
I don't think we "play" properly. We basically just pull a question card, and then pull an answer card (or two), and laugh or cringe at the outcome. Kind of like adult Mad Libs or something.
Miss18.2 is 11. We started doing this pretty recently. My wife and I have very different parenting views than most. We don't mind the kids cursing (to an extent). They can say pretty much anything if they stub their toe or get hurt, but can't tell anyone to shut up or call someone stupid, or other insults like that, which are all too common in the world today. And I encourage them to sing along to songs like Pennywise's "Fuck Authority", but really disapprove of most songs on the radio that don't use any curses but make it quite clear they're really about sex, and usually not in the most healthy relationship type way. So yeah, if my kids read cards that wind up saying something like "I had a long meeting with", "that kid who won't shut the fuck up about dinosaurs", we all have a laugh (they can say that about a fictional character, but not a sibling/friend). But we don't let the 11 year old listen to Cardi B. Miss18.1 is 17 and going off to college in a few months (unless we're all still quarantined). She's got much freer range on music, etc. Being a girl playing hockey, she heard all kinds of stuff, and I overheard some of it said to her from the bench, so there's never really been the standard parental pretending my teenage daughter doesn't know what things mean.