BoingBoing just posted an item about a new book that reassures the children of pot smokers that it's "just a plant." The page at right reads, "One night, Jackie woke up past her bedtime. She smelled something funny in the air, so she walked down the hall to her parents' bedroom."Last week, Strollerderby ran a post on a new kids' guide to cosmetic surgery. It's called "My Beautiful Mommy," and it explains mommy's smaller nose and flatter stomach to junior.
We're all for making kids feel less anxiety about their unique family situation, and so we hope someone's also at work on "Mommy and Daddy's Community Service Sentence" and "T is for 'Trophy Wife.'"
Reader Comments ( Page 1 of 1)
1. As if young girls don't hate themselves enough, let's teach them that women are gross and ugly when they become mothers, and will only become "beautiful" moms when they endure thousands of dollars of painful surgery. Wow, this world is great, where we punish women for giving birth, for continuing the human race, where we teach them that if you don't look like barbie, you're just not pretty. I'm sure girls' body image, and boys' concept of beauty, will be screwed up like never before. These plastic surgeons (like the one who wrote the book) are nothing but assholes profiting off of these women's insecurities. What's next, "How you can be pretty just like mommy: surgeries for your daughter."
Jane at 2:48PM on Apr 23rd 2008
2. Life was much easier in the late 60's for us kids. For school books it was "See Spot run, run run run! What's all this bs about plastic surgery, pot? Now they'll be making books on when the kids walk into the parent's bedroom when thry're making love or when mom or dad go gay and THEY'RE doing it! Come on folks! Get your mind out of the gutter and start making books for kids that are FUN to read. Not something depressing, full of sex, drugs, or other things. I loved to read 20,000 leagues under the sea or Robinson Crusoe or Moby Dick. What happened to those classics? Or the Greek Mythology like Hercules or Jason and the Argonauts? Why print trashy crap like pot or how to look beautiful with plastic surgery when you have the classics like Ulysses and such? Get a brain and engage it BEFORE you print crap like that!
Larry Cox at 5:03PM on Apr 23rd 2008
3. Larry, cheer up, geez. This is just one article..your kids turn out how you raise them. Kids still learn to read pretty much the way they used to. Yes, times have changed, but don't they always? The classic books are still around. Besides, you can always home school your kids or send them to private school. If anything, there are just more options.
By the way, no one really "goes gay." Either you are gay or your not. That hasn't changed either - just society's acceptance of it.
David S. at 6:03PM on Apr 23rd 2008
4. My mother's and father's other son( brother Bob) smokes dope in front of his kids all the time. In front of Mom and Dad, my children, or anyone who happens to go to his house.
He says to me " I don't want to be no hypocrit, I smoke dope and my kids know it."
The last time we spoke, a couple of years ago, I told him " Oh yeah, you screw your wife don't you? Do you do it on the couch after school?"
Maybe that's part of why we can't get along anymore?
mac at 7:28PM on Apr 23rd 2008
5. Wow....I just wrote a children's book. It is a kid-friendly way of talking about death of a grandparent or something. It was sad, yeah, but also I thought would really help kids understand what happens when grandma dies. No publishers seem to think it's marketable....but this? Come on!
shawna at 9:55PM on Apr 23rd 2008
6. I'd rather see more parents smoking pot rather than smoking cigarettes in the house with their children. I know so many people who smoke cigarettes around their kids without even the windows open.
Cigarettes are not just nicotine, they're full of other harmful chemicals.
Marijuana may cause a buzz but it is a harmless plant, and much safer than cigarettes.
I don't have anything against adults drinking alcohol, but I'd much rather be around someone who smokes marijuana than a drinker any day, even though I don't do any of it. I've seen too many mean, crazy drinkers for one lifetime, thank you very much. Maybe they should write a book about Mommy the alcoholic. She doesn't really mean what she says after 9PM, little Suzy.
The plastic surgery thing, that's just artificial and strange.
Amanda at 10:14PM on Apr 23rd 2008
7. "she doesn't really mean what she says after 9PM little, Suzy"
HA!!! I love it. You're a clever lass, amanda.
I am all for the reefer, and I don't think its necessarily bad that children know if their parents smoke, but I don't think putting smoke in the air around kids is ever a good thing. My dad make our tool shed into his smoking place - - and yeah, all his kids knew he *did* smoke, and when we were older we knew that he *does*. Guess what happened? We were able to make reasonable, rational choices about drugs and alcohol when our peers were thinking themselves rebels and drinking themselves to the point of death.
matchboxchic88 at 11:13AM on Apr 24th 2008
8. Whoever wrote that book is an idiot. If kids have questions, they can ask their parents, not get the wrong idea from some moron trying to sell what he does.
KXT88 at 11:35AM on Apr 24th 2008
9. "It's only a Plant" has been new for some time, I was blogging about it a year ago.
http://staghounds.blogspot.com/2007/05/marijuana-for-children.html
Staghounds at 11:59AM on Apr 24th 2008
10. Advanced kit for good children: http://plasticsergeant.com/home/plastic-surgery-humor
MakeOwnRingtone at 6:02AM on May 1st 2008