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(The following is a repost from a blog I used to write called, “The Connected Man.”)  Along the lines of this blog’s title, I make it a point to make sure that my daughter is connecting those things she surrounds herself with, to the reality of the ramifications of those connections to her spirit. You know, “garbage in, garbage out.” To that end, we spend a fair amount of time going over rap/pop/rock songs’ lyrics prior to her being allowed to have those which are age appropriate on her Blackberry. It goes a little something like this…..

She hears a song on the radio (or one of her friends’ iPods) > she then pulls up the lyrics to that song(s) on the computer > she reads the lyrics for overtly sexual/stoner/mysoginistic content > if it passes for the most part, but she’s still unsure….if it’s “iffy” she then asks me to sign off and give it a “yay” or “nay.”

When we first started doing this I’d have to spend a great deal of time going over the messages contained in the lyrics » Read more: Decoding Pop Culture

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