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To be clear: Nothing pop culture -related to your child, before they change five, as long as you, like, tattoo “Animal boys“His young child’s arm or something else. Technically, the first film My Kid Ever” SO “is the 1996 rated-R-for-fuel-fuel-language film version. David mammate American buffalo, Because they were four days old and slept and I did not dare to move them. They do not remember this. It is also okay to buy them, says, if your favorite band is a bigenius Onsus. It would be fun later when your partner asks you how the day has gone and you say, “Okay, the child is so fuck that it came out of the leg, hand, and his biogenous Anesi’s neck hole.” This is the one. It is to shout from the inside, and either they grow out of it or it gets where it is overshadowed and you throw it away and whispered for a silent forgiveness Fobe bridges As you do this.

And go ahead and play whatever music you want for your child. But don’t be the man who “I put on the new turns, and Breeden has actually started bapping around – I think we have found a little punk rocker!” No, you are not. shut up. Your child likes to make your facial expressions here and there. Your baby doesn’t like Wandering doorYou can’t program your child to like Turnstail in any way, as much as you can program him to like Baltimor Oriols, by applying a little orioles hat on it because your child does not understand whether there is a band called turns or bundle or bucketmore orality and anything that is there. Appear It is true that it will definitely prove to be false almost later. The minutes when they make your child’s brain five, it will essentially be a hard-rublen, and they will not like the opinion and will not like the dumb things you have tried to make them. It is a comprehensive and essentially part of a lifetime process of discrimination – but when it comes to media consumption, it once starts making friends of their age, it becomes faster.

Next: As they grow up and they become part of the theoretical target audiences for music and books and films that were important to you at that age, you will still feel a powerful temptation to re -create your early encounters, which you think of them as “the good shit”. Do not do this Do not even try to do this. If you start doing this yourself, leave the room. If necessary, revaluate, educators Onion Article “Cool Dad raised the daughter on the media, which would completely out of contact with her generation.” Your job is to teach them self-esteem, kindness and important thinking. You are allowed to answer any question asked about pop culture, and you are allowed to explain firmly, if a chance to do so, any given Republican politician is evil. But that’s it. Also, just keep quiet and let them watch terrible movies and listen to terrible music, as your job is to make them feel strong to follow your own preferences without the need for adult authority’s approval. This is only a potential benefits of all types of pop-cultural taste, but first and most important you will find in turn, is a child, like a possibility, like good nonsense, because they have never been forced to see or listen to someone else’s idea of ​​”good fuck” against their wish.

They will probably also like new bands which are derivatives of old, better bands you know and are about the current films of the current films that you know that there are yellow imitations of old, better films that you have seen. You will be wooed to pointing them to the source material. Do not, my friend. Once, in the 90s, I played a tape of an album to my father, which I was very beetled-in-thewenty ’90s alternative-rock band Jellyfish, and my father’s review was a derogatory “Why don’t you just listen to fucking beets?” As a result it was before the years when I used to listen to any non-proper way for fucking BeatlesAs it turns out that it was really better than Jellyfish-but at that moment, I was designed to feel stupid to like something that I like and to question my own barometer to form good music, and my father looted myself for the opportunity to join and validate with his son. ,