I about fell out in the damn floor. We all know that sex ed has its good and bad points. You tell a teen about how sex works, they get curious or they ignore it. Preferably they ignore it, but teens are teens and think they know it all. But what really irked me this morning is a children's book. I'm all for teaching a child that, 'boys have penises and girls have vaginas.' Children are curious about their bodies, it's natural.
But, I hardly think drawing a line from dad's "tube" to mom's "tummy" and stating that dad's "tube" goes into mom's hole is appropriate for young children. They don't need to know that much! I'm sure the author had good intentions when writing this. The illustrations are 'cute'. All children wonder where babies come from. But this upset me as much as it upset my sister. I can't blame her one bit for returning it. She initially bought it thinking it would be cute with the dinosaur egg and all that. My niece is 4. To quote my sister, "My friend just proofread a seemingly harmless book I picked up for kk at the library. I had no idea. This like child karma sutra" KK is my niece's nickname and at first I thought maybe she might be overreacting a little. You know being the good typical mom. Until I read the text and really seen the pictures good.
When I asked her who the author was she told me. " 'It's called Mommy Laid an Egg by Babette Cole' and I'm sitting here thinking it will be just a cute book t read. The parents are telling the kids where babies come from. They are telling them kid related answers (like that dinosaurs deliver babies like the mailman.). And the the kids say that's nonsense and they teach the parents! Children's book OMG" I have to agree with her.
It's one thing to talk around the subject of how mommies and daddies have babies. But to be telling a Preschooler that his thing goes inside of mommy is WAY too graphic. Might as well give the kid a porno magazine or let them read a graphic romance novel!
"It was way too specific for kids. I found it in the preschool section. It's not like it was in the 12 year old section. It was right beside of Mother Goose's nursery rhymes"
This is no place for a book of this nature! Kids need to be protected not shown how mommy and daddy have sex! I'm sorry if this blog offends the author, but as a mother of a very impressionable 9 year old daughter, the aunt of a 4 year old niece, 12 year old niece, several 8 year old nephews, and 5 year old nephew, I have to say this is way too much for these children to be looking at. Children should be enjoying being just that, children. Not be taught how mommy and daddy have sex!
