# "I don't want my kids seeing that." **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 28, 2009, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-my-kids-seeing-that/487821 "2009-02-28T20:35:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-my-kids-seeing-that/487821/81 "2009-03-03T02:27:42Z")
Amazing. Then again the apparent small size of the adverse reaction is heartening. Meanwhile, to refer back to the thing about the employee with the tongue piercing at the workplace, THAT mother probably is more upset at the fact that the kids have now seen evidence that this is something that they could one day do themselves, and still hold a job… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![original\_fake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a4c791/32.png) [@original\_fake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/original_fake)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-my-kids-seeing-that/487821/82 "2009-03-03T21:14:43Z")
> [@Rayne\_Man](#): > > The _Daily Mash_ has thought up a suitable punishment for those stupid parents:- > > [http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/satan-makes-room-for-parents-who-complained-about-disabled-tv-presenter-200902241599/](http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/satan-makes-room-for-parents-who-complained-about-disabled-tv-presenter-200902241599/) “The majority of parents prefer childrens’ TV presenters they’d like to have sex with” HAHA! ---
**Author:** ![original\_fake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a4c791/32.png) [@original\_fake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/original_fake)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-my-kids-seeing-that/487821/83 "2009-03-03T21:28:29Z")
> [@clayton\_e](#): > > Not long ago I was thinking about a coworker of mine who is in a similar vein, but not for her children.. For herself. > > She’s 50ish and can’t hear a story that’s above G rated I’ve seen this a lot. In rooms full of adults no less. It’s funny when you see the noses of sexually active adults scrunch up whenever someone who isn’t them mentions something that implies they themselves have had sex. (confusing I know) I’ve literally heard people respond “oh, ew. tmi!” in these situations. And my response to their response is like "WAHT. O RLY??? (necessary) ---
**Author:** ![Khampelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Khampelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khampelf)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-my-kids-seeing-that/487821/84 "2009-03-03T21:47:41Z")
I remember when I asked my dad what ‘prostitution’ was. He hemmed and hawed very little, then carefully said ‘The loaning of one’s sexual favors.’ I pictured paper hats and cheap plastic noisemakers with pee-pees and boobies on them. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-my-kids-seeing-that/487821/85 "2009-03-03T22:54:51Z")
> [@scifisam2009](#): > > I agree that you don’t necessarily have to sit them down and give them a long lecture, but sometimes older kids will come up with pretty detailed questions that deserve answers. It’d be rude to ignore them. Well, of course. But I think it’s easier to become that older kid with detailed questions that deserve answers if the kid has already built up experience figuring things out for himself. ---
**Author:** ![Snnipe\_70E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5a626/32.png) [@Snnipe\_70E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snnipe_70E)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2009, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-my-kids-seeing-that/487821/86 "2009-03-04T02:14:59Z")
I say it is the parents who are having nightmares. Kids were always fancinated by my brothers hook. He loved showing kids how it worked. It only brothered the kids parents. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2009, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-my-kids-seeing-that/487821/87 "2009-03-04T04:22:06Z")
> [@original\_fake](#): > > I’ve literally heard people respond “oh, ew. tmi!” in these situations. “They go, ‘Oh, okay, too much information! Don’t go there!’ I _live_ there. I bought a _house_ there.” - Margaret Cho ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2009, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-my-kids-seeing-that/487821/88 "2009-03-04T04:42:37Z")
> [@GameHat](#): > > I searched for a blue person for years. Never found one. I was lied to. [Here you go.](http://vamsikarra.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/krishna-judge1.jpg) I can’t believe the sheer idiocy of these parents. What happens when the kid goes to school next year and sees a girl in a wheel chair or a guy with one ear? ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2009, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-my-kids-seeing-that/487821/89 "2009-03-04T04:51:28Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > **Nava** , was this in Spain? why was there such odd reluctance by parents to talk about it? a hang-over from the Franco period? No and yes. I remember my own family talking freely about politics… uh… before Franco died, so I wasn’t even 7yo, and absolutely thereafter. But let’s see, that sunday school I taught on Thursdays was in something like 1991-2. In the 15ish years since Franco’s death, we’d gone from having “censorship” to having “political correctness;” from “abortions are something rich spoiled brats go to London to have” to “abortions are legal until 3 months but actually most of them happen post-3-months due to the bureaucracy involved but don’t dare mention it because then you’re being a square and a fascist and a retrograde;” from “virginal wedding nights” through “boobs movies” (_destape_) to Almodóvar; from “Grampa sees you from Heaven” to “let us not traumatize kids by mentioning death.” The sanitization of folk tales was beginning, for example: at the time I write this, the Big Bad Wolf doesn’t devour Grandmother anymore (he knocks her out and stuffs her into the closet), the Woodcutter doesn’t chop BBW in half, and all four of them sit down around a negotiation table (promise, my brother was jumping fit to break the ceiling when someone gave that version to The Nephew for Christmas, the only reason he hasn’t burnt it is because book-burning goes against our principles). Speaking of “why Hitler is important” and “why is he all of a sudden on TV when nobody had mentioned in your living memory” to a handful of 10yos involved talking about death. It involved talking about racism. It involved talking about cruelty. It involved talking about the State of Israel. It involved mentioning persecution of “anybody who didn’t put Germany over everything else” or who was seen as “impure” of genetics, behaviour or thought; it involved talking about torture (about half of my kids were cops’ children, whose parents will get accused of torture by certain parties even if the cop in question is in Traffic); it involved talking about a lot of things which many parents wish their children would never be exposed to. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-my-kids-seeing-that/487821.md?page=4)