Why were you dreading that talk. Like I said, I served in a parenting role for a certain child and when she asked a question about sex it was just answered. There never came a time to sit down and have some dreaded talk. It was just a matter of casually answering questions as they came and, yes, I am sure a lot of questions were not asked because she was getting answers from elsewhere. It's just like anything else in life. She would occasionally ask questions about how clouds formed or why cars were designed differently too. Those questions were answered too without any dread involved and I am sure that there were a lot of other questions of that kind that she did not ask me, at least, because she was getting answers elsewhere. So what's the big deal anyway? Now, speaking of questions, I just remembered one of her questions that doesn't really have anything to do with this, but it was so funny that I couldn't forget it and I feel compelled to repeat it here. She had a cat named Cringer. One day, just out of nowhere, she asked, "Roger, how do cats wipe their butts when they poop?" That one took me by surprise, but I didn't think it deserved a lot of thought to it, so I just casually answered, "I dunno. I suppose they just lick it." She reacted with a screwed up face and plenty of yucks, but the discussion ended right there and I just forgot about it. In the weeks that followed I started noticing something strange. Every time I glanced at the cat's litter box I noticed that there were little pieces of toilet paper in it. It seemed a little strange, but it just did not register as anything important enough to say anything to anyone about. Then one day I caught her actually tearing little pieces of toilet paper and putting them in the litter box. I was completely puzzled and so a I asked her why she was doing that. She replied, "Aaargh! I don't want Cringer licking his butt!" I just wonder how she figured that cat was going to use the toilet paper.
On 11/11/2012 4:26 PM, Dornetta wrote:
Roger;I was "upset" because of the content in the book was, in my opinion, way too much for her 9-year old self especially since I was dreading that "talk." I don't want my children to learn the woes of sex from a book and that particular book was giving instructions on not only positions but also oral sex...techniques and the like. So, my "beating myself upside the head" was warranted, in my opinion. I will say that she did admit that she picked up the book based on the other novel from Zane that she read (the one my older daughter said that it was OK for her to read.) That title, and I forget which one, wasn't that graphic or as detailed as the G-Spot. I see that Bookshare has that book in the collection (and it was an earlier download for me) and while I haven't checked to see whether or not it is under adult content, I am sure that it is the "watered-down version than the first printed version I read when I had sight. I will admit that she didn't understand the total or worldly complexity of the content; her reading and comprehension skills are more advanced than the average 9 year old that it scared the Hades out of me. Fortunately for me during that time, I was able to field question from the mind of a 9-year old and not the questions that would have derived from a mind of a child that was turned-upside down or inside out from reading such a book.Netta "Just because you are blind does not mean you lack vision"-Stevie Wonder
