i’m still very upset about this so i am doing my best to remain neutral as i write this. however lack of sleep (due to barking dogs and local drug camp vagrants lighting camp fires all night allowing smoke to drift into our house and a child who had a challenging day yesterday) has me in quite the “state” today.
my girl went to play at a friends house yesterday. i already knew the parents had Alexia in their house. however i was not in knowledge of the fact that their daughter had one in her room as well.
when my daughter came home yesterday, she said she had something to tell me. she told me another girl (who had been playing as well) asked Alexia to play the “wings on my penis” song.
WHAT?? i wish my what had what??
i asked her to repeat the song – asked if she was sure that was the name. she reassured me yes – that was the name of the song.
she then told me Alexia began playing the song. it started off sounding like a little boy singing – praying to God. it was then she said she plugged her ears and told the girls to turn it off – that her mom would be really upset if she knew she was listening to this song. the girls let the song continue to play while one said “so then don’t tell your mom”. my girl continued to plug her ears until the song was ovre.
so we talked about what had happened. i told her many times how proud i was of her for the choice she made to refuse to listen, to speak up AND to tell me.
it was then that i decided to look up the song. i found it – and the lyrics are – horrifying. dark. explicit. and in NO WAY (obviously) suitable for any child to hear – much less an adult.
so i passed on the information to the mother who said she would talk with her daughter about it.
i’m so god damn frustrated with dealing with parents who let their children have way too much access to technology. who are just – unaware. don’t think of potential consequences.
and when those choices affect my family – especially my child – mama bear comes out thrashing.
Alexia has no business being in anyone’s home let alone a child’s bedroom. AI d/s spying tool. And the fact that Alexia will play such x-rated music so indiscriminately – is something to make every parent – hopefully – think twice before allowing this tech into their homes.
For now I applaud my girl.
And whenever any uninformed bot attempts to criticize me for the choices we are making in raising her, I will pass along this song to them. THAT is what our children are being exposed to. So you’re damn right I will be doing all I can to protect her in today’s environment – which is FAR more toxic than any previous generation. That is my RIGHT.
And that is my responsibility. If all parents engaged in the same/similar and stop feeding the beast, we could truly offer our children what is safe, truthful, supportive and pure.
Love,
Victoria
Kudos to you and your daughter. I do not like the alexa thing either and I am not one to go out and get every tech gadget that comes along. Back in the early 2000’s I had a friend who’s sister would do just that–get every new tech gadget for her 6 year old son. That was back when the tablets first came out, of course he got one, and some other things as well. I still had the old console tv at my house and the old flip phone and she would make fun on me for not upgrading. I didn’t care and would laugh at her for spending all that money when the old one was perfectly fine.
Anyhow, to each their own I guess. But that would infuriate me as well as a parent. I remember when my son bought some rap music that had parental discretion on it (back in the day) and I went with him to take them back because he was underage and I got after the clerk that sold them to my son, for selling them to and underage person.
We got to hang tough.