While everyone was at parents for holidays, my nephew asked what the 'F' word on a cup meant
The cup had a joke that said, 'oh no, not the F word!!' and then you spin it around and it says Forty
Family is super christians and instead of my sister in law just explaining it by saying, 'oh people stress about growing old, so seeing 'forty' on your fortieth birthday can be a way of poking fun at that,' she instead says 'I don't want you knowing what the F word is'
Like, he is five, he doesn't know what the F word is and has no context for it. Now instead of just taking the power away of even wondering what that thing you don't want him to know is by just giving a context for the joke, you've literally told him that there is an F word lol.
Kids don't know jack shit, you can explain your way around any manner of things you feel aren't appropriate for them to understand yet instead of giving power to the shit you're worried about in the first place.
Reminds me of 6th grade social studies. Our world history textbook had a chapter on early human ancestors and human origins - Australopithecus, Homo Habilis, Homo Erectus, origins in Africa, Neanderthals, all that jazz. I grew up in the Bible Belt so evolution wasn’t on the curriculum. Our teacher could’ve just skipped it and nobody would’ve cared. Less reading, yay! But instead she stopped to say “Chapter three conflicts with my personal beliefs, and is not required in the curriculum, so we will not be covering it in this class.” You bet that’s the only chapter I actually read.
"Teach the controversy" agendas were more successful in some places than we'd like to admit. Many people in the United States who grew up in the 2000's and 2010's had science textbooks that advocated "intelligent design".
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u/StuckInsideYourWalls 5d ago
While everyone was at parents for holidays, my nephew asked what the 'F' word on a cup meant
The cup had a joke that said, 'oh no, not the F word!!' and then you spin it around and it says Forty
Family is super christians and instead of my sister in law just explaining it by saying, 'oh people stress about growing old, so seeing 'forty' on your fortieth birthday can be a way of poking fun at that,' she instead says 'I don't want you knowing what the F word is'
Like, he is five, he doesn't know what the F word is and has no context for it. Now instead of just taking the power away of even wondering what that thing you don't want him to know is by just giving a context for the joke, you've literally told him that there is an F word lol.
Kids don't know jack shit, you can explain your way around any manner of things you feel aren't appropriate for them to understand yet instead of giving power to the shit you're worried about in the first place.