How brave of you to take them to the zoo! The monkeys may have been masturbating. and then you might have had to… explain that to the kids! The horror…
But by the time your kid can form complete sentences, you’ve already had to explain lots of immoral, strange, and illigetimate things to them. This is not the first “sin” that your kid has come across and not the first time that you’ve had to have a talk with them. What’s one more talk about things that people should never, ever do? What’s one more bad example? The kids have seen plenty - and been told plenty of times that “in this family we don’t ______________.”
It’s true. Many’s the time I’ve had to wistfully explain to my young sons, “In this family we don’t have smokin’ hawt lesbians making out before our very eyes.”
Is that because you think it’s wrong…or you’re just unlucky? 
More’s the pity.
Don’t the Mariners realize that’s the reason they invented DiamondVision?
Well, what do you think? Sheesh.
Ahh, so you ARE a homophobe! I just knew it!
The word “wistfully” should’ve tipped you off. :rolleyes:
I know. I just like teasing straight guys who are into lesbians. It amuses me.
Eh, not really. You can just say, “Because they’re very gross women with bad manners, dear. But it’s also bad manners to stare, so back to the ballgame.”
NOTE TO GONZOMAX AND OTHER READING COMPREHENSION IMPAIRED PEOPLE: I have no problem with gays or lesbians. I do not think they are gross or bad. I’m just saying that IF you do, not wanting to explain what those women are doing is still not real hard.
As others have said, trying to drag this to the OP’s question and off the topic of gays, it’s your job as a parent to explain things. You can put it off, but it’s still your job to raise your kids to grok the world, not the job of the world to live within your ideas.
IME, kids don’t ask what they’re not ready to hear, but you also have to go slow. I used to overwhelm my kid with way too much information, until I learned to go a sentence at a time and see if he had another question.
“Where do babies come from?”
“From their mommy’s bodies?”
“But from where?”
“They grow in the uterus inside here pointing to abdomen and they come out the vagina.”
“…”
(It’s usually a couple more *years *before they think to ask how the baby got in there in the first place!)
“Mom, why are we fighting in Iraq?”
“That’s a hard one to answer, honey. Some people thought the leader of Iraq was a dangerous man and we needed to help his people get rid of him. Some people think we have to fight there so that oil and gasoline doesn’t get too expensive.”
“Yeah, that doesn’t make much sense to me, either. Sometimes grown-ups are stupid.”
“Mom, who’s the dead guy on the X?” (asked very loudly at a funeral.)
“That’s a statue of Jesus, honey.”
“Who’s Jesus?”
“He’s one of the faces of God. He’s the god of the Christians.”
“Are we Christians, Mom?”
“Honey, we need to talk about this later in private.”
“But Mom–!”
“Later, dear.”
Gads, you must be tired! Cuz there’s what…a few billion of us?
It’s even more fun in person. Though that is usually teasing the straight guys because I can get the girls to hug/kiss/sit in my lap/etc pretty much at will and I do it right in front of them.
I promise I’m only slightly evil. Or as Dr. Evil might say, I’m the diet coke of evil.
As luck would have it, the 12 YO Grandkid is visiting so I decided to ask him about this issue. He says that in fourth grade he had a classmate with two mommies who was more upset about the divorce than mom making out with another woman. He also says he remembers hearing the word “gay” used as an insult long before he figured out the correlation between the word and same sex couples. He further states that when he was young he found that two guys kissing was less weird than two women, but that now he and the rest of the school will stop in their tracks when one of the lesbian kids is kissing her girlfriend. He does not appear to be scarred in any way by the presence of gays in the world.
“Think of the children” in this context appears to be, empirically and anecdotally at least, a gigantic crock o’shit.
Heck, my 5-year-old explained it to me one day!
He said, “you know how men and women like to go out on dates together?”
I said, “yes,”
He said, “well, did you know that sometimes women go out on dates with women and men go out on dates with men?”
I said, “yes, I knew that.”
He said, “oh, okay,” and started talking about something else.
I really don’t get how “explaining it to the children” has to be any more complicated than that. Maybe you could substitute “kissing” for “going out on dates with,” but that’s about it.
If you absolutely must tell your children how much you disapprove, just add “and they’re gonna burn in a firey pit of hell for all eternity because of it.” :rolleyes:
As a recent receiver of “won’t someone think of the children” backlash, I have to say that some of the responses in this thread are rather surprising to me. (Especially when matched with the people who posted them.)
On topic, I agree with those who said that this stance of not wanting to explain shit to your kids is a total copout. Kids are not some kind of alien species, they’re people. (PE-E-E-OPLE!!! lol) Just smaller people who usually need a simplified explanation. If people are going to freak out over having to explain something as simple as kissing to their kids, I shudder to think what’ll happen when it’s time to give The Talk.
The proper response to someone saying, “But I’ll have to explain this to my children,” is a big smile followed by, “Yes. You will.”
BTW I too was shocked. I mean, 36,000 people at a Mariners game?
How is that teasing straight guys? That’s like TV.
Of course, that goes right to the necessary corollary to the question of the OP, a corollary that is entirely gender- and orientation-neutral:
“If you’re making out in public, don’t shoot dirty looks at the onlookers.”
If you’re kissing your SO on the street, I’m walking on by.
If you’re performing the action as described in your quote, I’m stopping and watching- if you’re of the gender and body type I like to watch. I may even get some popcorn.
Don’t bring your kids to a ballgame if you don’t want them watching KissCam.
Don’t snog your SO at a ballgame if you don’t want to be seen on KissCam.
And, more on point with the OP, if you’re having trouble explaining things to a six-year-old, then you’re not ready to have a six-year-old.
Yes.
Young children are not ready or really capable of understanding deviant sexual behavior. As a parent, I would not want to have to explain that to my kid until they were old enough to comprehend it.
Yeah, but it’s a bit late by then – it’s not like they come with a return policy… and have you tried finding genuine gypsies these days to sell a child to?
My six-year-old thinks boys kissing girls is undesirable (but this doesn’t extend somehow to kissing Mummy or Daddy); I just can’t seeing him being additionally weirded by seeing two women kissing.
If anyone had a problem with the women in the OP is wasn’t likely to be the kids.
Are you going to wait until they’re 20 to explain that “Adults shouldn’t touch children there ?”
That<sex with children> is deviant behavior.
Even if you don’t agree with adults of the same sex getting it on, surely, you can talk about child predators. If you can’t do that, you can say “They do something I think is wrong or disgusting” without traumatizing the kid.
And if you can’t do the first? Damn.
Glad I’m not your kid.
(For the record–not a homophobe. In case anyone is taking a roll call. 
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