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[mollya]

Last weekend I looked over B's shoulder while he was checking his fantasy football. I try to glance over his shoulder a lot while he is on the computer, but if I see the ESPN green border I don't look too closely. I figure there isn't going to be anything on ESPN.com that I would need to monitor. I looked, though, at his fantasy matchup last

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[liseuse]

I really like reading about your parenting techniques. Perhaps the phrase "objectification of women" will stick when B is older, and has seen more of it happening in his everyday life?

[mollya]

If he takes the right class in college he will. I never took those classes in college, though.

[norabird]

Go B!

[mollya]

I know, right?

[r_bomber]

That is awesome - go B, but also go you! I like that you talk to your kids like they are adults so they understand these concepts. I'm sure if I asked B the question, he wouldn't answer it the same way he did you as he would know I would have no clue what he was talking about :) I think it is great he has this awareness and understanding at this age.

Also - Happy Birthday B!! (it's his birthday over here anyway)

[mollya]

He was intrigued by the birthday greeting from tomorrow!

[rebism]

While I recognise the phrase "objectification of women", I'm not sure I could readily access it if you asked me the same question you asked B. "Transformers" might not be a universally understood answer, but I feel like understanding the concepts and, if pushed, being able to put them in words, is more important than being able to draw on the phrase "objectification of women" - which, to someone who hasn't heard it expressed like that or isn't familiar with the concept (such as the person using the icon you saw), is going to say nothing until you follow up with the explanation anyway.

Also I like how your telling of your parenting stories follows up with a sort of "parenting lesson" - if you'd asked me, I'd have said teaching why that icon is not acceptable is important, but I wouldn't have been able to tell you what age range that lesson can be learnt, or how best to introduce and reinforce it. I learnt both those things - or one variation on both those things - in your telling of this story.

[mollya]

I guess the other lesson is that the feedback loop can be very long. We had the initial discussion in 2009. We have not had much or any follow up. This is the first evidence it works, three years later.