@UrbanMysticDee
EXACTLY! Think back to when you were a kid. Don’t know about you but me and my peers knew what sex was by the time we were, like, seven. We didn’t know the precise mechanics of sperm and egg, no, but we knew “boy sticks his dick in a girl and a baby happens”. And this is before the internet became an in-home thing. Hell, we knew what
rape was. Same thing for death. And disease. And a shit load of other things. By the time you’re, like, 12, you’re already fully familiar with pretty much everything your parents are convinced they’ve hidden from you, cuss like a sailor and have very likely already seen your share of porn. Just like your parents before you. And
their parents. And
their parents. And they know this. They know this because
they remember what they and all their peers were like. Yet somehow every parent is convinced that
their brat is different from the hundred billion that came before (and often all of its peers). It’s not like the rest of us filthy primates; it’s a higher form of being untouched by the failings & urges of mortal man.
Children, contrary to popular opinion, are not barely sentient little potatos that’ll wilt down into compost if they find out that bad things happen. Fuck, your kids are most likely better adjusted than
you are and better equipped to accept things just because they haven’t had the chance to acquire a lifetime of biases & fears yet. And in the event that you
do succeed in hiding
the world around them from them, all you’ve done is create a really fucking weak kid who’s going to potentially spend the rest of his life struggling to adapt to the very world he was born into because you thought the job of a parent was to purposefully stunt its growth and keep it like a large pet. Something which will only be compounded by the strange tendency of such parents to then expect their children to just magically know & understand all the shit they kept from them the day they turn 18.
I’m not saying kill your kid’s dog in front of it to teach it about death; I
am saying to tell your kid the dog died when it dies instead of making up some bullshit about it running away or whatever. You don’t have to have a conversation about sex with your 6 year old but don’t fill his head with bullshit about birds and farms.
