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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
I'm appalled
I'm a mother of a 17 year old boy and 9 year old daughter. My sister sent me a text message this morning.
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!
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!
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
school rant
When I was growing up, teachers paid attention to what we were doing. If we didn’t turn our homework in everyday, boy did we get it! I went up to my daughter’s school today to talk to her teacher. Their ‘form of communication’ is a stupid purple folder with the child’s weekly progress. The grading system they have is a week behind. How does this help a student in school? It’s like my husband said, it’s almost set up like a freakin pay check system!
I can’t believe some systems have gotten so lazy with children. The kid gets in trouble and gets a bad report because their reading, (AR) points aren’t what the teacher says it should be. The kid gets in trouble for not bringing in and giving the teacher the purple folder. But a teacher can’t take five minutes to send a note home asking the parent to encourage the child more on reading? If a trouble child, like mine can get in trouble within two seconds flat for taking someone else’s homework because she didn’t do hers one week and the teacher can certainly find the phone then, why can’t they do it when the child is doing something good?
Teacher says she don’t remember making an agreement with me to send me a note home when my child says she turned in her homework letting me know it was turned in. Why the hell not? The teacher can certainly call when she’s in trouble! With 40 kids to deal with, teacher says there’s no way at all possible to send a note home to the parent on a daily basis. HMP… yea right! It’s called, ‘I don’t want to’. They can ‘get a child ready for middle school’ by teaching responsibility. As in; writing their assignments in a agenda that only gets ‘spot checked’ occasionally, having the child keep up and “check mark in their agendas” the homework they have completed, bring their folders home for the parent to sign and turn back into the teacher, along with turning in homework that was given to them for the ‘whole week’.
My child is in fourth grade. They call it ‘intermediate school’ instead of elementary. Ok. Now, I prefer my daughter to do her work at school that is to be turned in for the next day. She’s also given “weekly” homework. As in, passed out on a Friday and turned in the following Friday. Teacher smugly says to me, “this was at the parents request.” Well, not all parents. I choose to know more about my child’s progress than once a week! I grew up with homework given out on a daily basis and turned in the next day. I remember if we didn’t turn our homework in, the teach stepping outside of class to call my mother. The focus was on how the student needed to be taught, not on laying it all on the kids’ shoulders.
Teacher considers this being “pampered”. Not hardly. Fact is, it isn’t her kid so who cares.
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