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"I'd much rather my daughter read something that might or might not be 'inappropriate' openly rather than lie about her age so she can read it in secret. If she's reading stuff with my tacit permission, she'll be far more likely to come to me to discuss it than if she's sneaking it behind my back. All the net.nanny software on the planet won't keep a motivated kid from reading whatever they want. Besides, all that so-called 'mature' content is the perfect teaching tool for any parent with the gumption to use it. Knowledge is always better than ignorance." -- tejas, 2007-11-30

And in a different subthread of the same comment thread:

"It matters to me that my child be able to explore and learn, even if it's [to] learn that not everything in the world is to her taste or that people often behave in ways that aren't particularly nice. Learning that early can help children stay out of trouble they might otherwise get into due to their own ignorance and naivete. Sheltering them beyond reason does no one any good and only caters to prudish adults who are too frightened of life to even talk about it to teach their own children.

"We can't child-proof the world, nor should we try. We need, instead, to be world-proofing our children."

-- tejas, 2007-11-30