On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 16:03:17 GMT, "The Eternal Lost Lurker"
<kuraebakayarou.lurkerdrome@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>Some things have been bugging me about Dawn's mom, and watching the Labor
>Day D&P marathon today is making me think harder about them.
>
>I seriously have to call Dawn's mom's parenting into question:
>
>1. She allows her daughter to roam the countryside with two teenage boys
she
>has barely ever met once, with no supervision or chaperones, placing
>unwavering trust in these boys SHE DOES NOT KNOW to keep her daughter in
>line.
She could readily have investigated them by contacting the
pokemon league; both are well known to enforcement by
that time.
>
>2. She allows Dawn a wardrobe selection that is, for a ten-year-old girl,
>questionable at best, including (as seen in the "Dawn-is-overpacked"
scene
>from the first episode) some EXTREMELY inappropriate choices of
>sleepwear/intimates.
>
>3. When Dawn calls home in tears after losing her first Pokemon contest,
>rather than being sup****tive and comforting, Dawn's mom is strict,
abrasive,
>and reprimands Dawn for her present attitude, correcting her on how she
>SHOULD be acting after a contest loss, and more or less telling her not
to
>call home for advice and sup****t.
>
>All of the above combine to cast some rather serious doubt and concern on
>this woman's abilities as a parent.
She's treating Dawn as an adult instead of as a child, true,
but it seems to be the custom of pokeworld to toss offspring
out of the nest at the conclusion of 4th grade. Since their
society is based on slavery instead of technology, an education
isn't really going to be that useful anyways, is it?
-Galen
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