Eh. Some girls.
For others, it might be 12 or 13 years old (the “average”).
Internet is fun, but of limited help:
Age Ranges range from 9-18, 10-16, 11-14.
Yeah, that’s fair.
And I do think a good book probably offers a better understanding of sex than I (or any of her peers) could offer.
When did you break it to your kids and how?
And what did they pick up from other sources?
The conversation in this thread started with Utah banning 13 books from school libraries. (Post 72)
Which is why your comment to go to the library with your kid didn’t make sense. You can’t. (Generally… maybe on curriculum night or something, but not most of the time.)
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Post 72 (emphasis mine)
Excerpt from Post 82: (appears to be responding directly to 72)
Excerpt from Post 88, directly responding to and quoting post 82:
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Seems like an overreach or overreaction for high school kids/libraries for sure.
Anyway, @Ajstudies , we probably mostly agree…
I was just pointing out that since we were talking about a ban in school libraries specifically, telling concerned parents to go to the library with their kids isn’t an option.
We actually do have to trust school libraries to guide our kids to age / reading level appropriate choices.
With respect to the particular list of 13 books… yeah, probably although conceivably I’d agree that one or more are inappropriate even for high school kids.
Guessing not but anything is possible.
Right, but also, its high school, and we have all been there, and we all know all sorts of shit goes down generally in high school, the least would ever be a kid came across a book that mom and dad didn’t like.
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I would add that I wouldn’t ban anything based on reading level. If a kid wants a challenge… bring it on!
Content is different. There’s stuff that doesn’t belong in school libraries but everyone will draw the line in a slightly different place.
Yup. I just don’t want some small subset of parents drawing the line for ALL kids, especially the 99.9% of kids that are not their own. And that is what is happening in Utah.
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If they don’t want their little Sally or little Johnny reading certain books, they can fill out an online form for each of the books (with the correct ISBN) they don’t want them to read and it will go into the system so that Sally and Johnny can’t borrow the book.
If they’re worried that little Sally and Johnny might try to read those books while they’re in the library (highly unlikely), they can put little GPS trackers on Sally and Johnny which start beeping if they spend more than 5 minutes in the library and the librarian can kick them out for making too much noise.
But, what if Sally gets Suzy to check out the book for her? What then?!?!
That’s up to the parents to police. Suzy could just have easily bought it on Amazon or the black market or borrowed it from some cousin in a woke state.
Exactly. The parents call the police who then confiscate the book because it has been banned.
Win-win-win
Otoh, she just climbed into bed to tell me her thoughts on santa clause.
Well, it’s what I get for jumping in without reading the entire thread. My bad. 
Speaking of bans does anyone find it ironic that we banned OP
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Oh I think OP did all the heavy lifting on getting himself banned.
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I wish I’d caught whatever happened. He could get weird at times.
Particularly his stance of “you’re only rich if you’re spending money, if you save you’re poor.” I just chuckled at that and moved on. It seemed like his plan was to spend everything and die early on drugs.
No worries! 