JennifersLost
02-12-2008, 01:16 AM
Something that would be "on" all the time moving through the world a pace or two ahead of me while I negotiate through life with my kids around me.
I was just reading a book out loud to my 6 yo dd at bedtime that was humorous and irreverent and at the end of the first chapter all of a sudden - boom! - a mother dies in childbirth. I had no chance to soften the blow except to say that she got sick and died, rather than she started to bleed and didn't stop! Yikes! Some sort of foreshadowing or plot heads-up would have been appreciated!
But that was small potatoes. I was listening to the radio in the car when I went to pick up ds (14 yo) from his music class this afternoon. The announcer was interviewing some guy about C.S. Lewis. Safe enough topic, you'd think, right? I wasn't entirely following the conversation as my kid got in the car, but suddenly they were throwing around phrases like "sado-masochistic sex" and "whips and chains". Ummmm - what!!??!!!
So I'm trying so hard not to be the prudish parent. After all, I want my children to feel free to talk about sex with me, right? But that lasted for about ten seconds before I couldn't take it anymore and I hit the radio button and changed it to a rock n' roll station where at least they were only singing about getting it on.
I'm beginning to think I can't even fake being a liberal, cool mom anymore. Why can't we all go back to wearing braids and bonnets and reading Dick and Jane books?
I was just reading a book out loud to my 6 yo dd at bedtime that was humorous and irreverent and at the end of the first chapter all of a sudden - boom! - a mother dies in childbirth. I had no chance to soften the blow except to say that she got sick and died, rather than she started to bleed and didn't stop! Yikes! Some sort of foreshadowing or plot heads-up would have been appreciated!
But that was small potatoes. I was listening to the radio in the car when I went to pick up ds (14 yo) from his music class this afternoon. The announcer was interviewing some guy about C.S. Lewis. Safe enough topic, you'd think, right? I wasn't entirely following the conversation as my kid got in the car, but suddenly they were throwing around phrases like "sado-masochistic sex" and "whips and chains". Ummmm - what!!??!!!
So I'm trying so hard not to be the prudish parent. After all, I want my children to feel free to talk about sex with me, right? But that lasted for about ten seconds before I couldn't take it anymore and I hit the radio button and changed it to a rock n' roll station where at least they were only singing about getting it on.
I'm beginning to think I can't even fake being a liberal, cool mom anymore. Why can't we all go back to wearing braids and bonnets and reading Dick and Jane books?