I try really hard not to judge other parents. I'm not exactly a poster mommy, what with my lack of patience and organic food. But I'm not an idiot, either - that's got to count for something.
This morning on the news they reported a big brouhaha about a "That's A Family" video shown to third graders in a wealthy suburban town. The video, which shows kids talking about their different families, was deemed too much for the local kids. Why? Because some of the families discussed had gay parents. I guess I should be grateful that the parents weren't freaking out about the multi-racial or divorced families.
Apparently, by a little girl saying, "This is my mom and this is my other mom," the video was teaching kids about homosexuality. Yeah, I can see how that would prompt kids to start asking about bathroom signals and dental dams. I guarantee most of the kids didn't even link the idea of the two same sex parents to being gay, kids prefer to think of all parents as non-sexual.
What are these people so afraid of? I wonder if they let their kids watch the nasty stuff on MTV or the scary stuff on the news or play violent video games or otherwise expose them to stuff that could actually harm them, as opposed to stuff that could just make them more tolerant.
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