It’s been quite the month at the house I share with my two sons, 20 and 17. Lying, stonewalling, sexting, violence, unprotected sex — you name it, and we’ve lived through it.
Oh, I don’t mean that my kids were doing that — that is what’s been on the news as we followed former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s announcement of a love child with his long-time housekeeper, the revelations that former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn allegedly sexually assaulted a hotel maid, and that former New York Congressman Anthony Weiner had been engaging in social media hanky-panky with a bunch of young hotties on Facebook and Twitter but not without lying about it first for 10 days before resigning.
It sure makes the antics of my boys — on the verge of adulthood and all that comes with that — look relatively innocent.
These are tough times to be raising kids, often because parents — or in Weiner’s case, parent-to-be — are behaving so badly. And we’re teaching kids, by example if not necessarily words, that it’s OK to be less than honest and honorable.
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Even if you couldn’t care less about the shenanigans of celebrities and politicians, it’s hard to totally escape it in our celeb-obsessed culture; this is often what passes for news nowadays. And our kids may eventually discover their favorite actor or sports hero is doing something inappropriate — it’s a good idea to have a game plan for talking about tough subjects.
How do you talk to your kids about the lying and generally bad behavior of adults who should know better?
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