I don't know, maybe it's just me....

[conuly]

But is it that unreasonable to expect that the target audience of a book about a sixth grader would already KNOW Santa doesn't exist? And also that babies do not, in fact, come from the stork?

(Also, when people start pulling out words like "reprehensible" to describe Superfudge, is it wrong of me to give up and point out that you surely KNEW this would be the eventual outcome of telling your kids about Santa and its hardly Judy Blume's fault that this is the bed you made? I mean, honestly, how do people think it's going to work that year when their kids find out?)

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[conuly]

Well sheesh, maybe a lot of six and seven year olds these days have never seen a breeding animal, even a mouse or a guppy, but surely they still will have heard that babies come out of the mother, so why would the logical, immemorial question "How does the baby get inside the mother?" not still be asked?

I really don't see what the point is, of all this mystification about the facts of reproduction. It seems dirty-minded to me - like the adult doing it is trying to both frighten and tantalize the child under the saccharine pretext of "protecting innocence". Which begs the question of precisely why 'innocence' has to be protected from learning how his or her own body works. The whole thing is just creepy.

Can I save that and quote it as needed?