Keep Childhood As Long As Possible

In today's world with access to the internet, it seems as if children have the potential to be exposed to inappropriate things. This makes parenting a much greater challenge as the parents try to keep alert as to what their children are doing. We are in favor of keeping children as innocent as long as possible, since once innocence is gone , it cannot be regained.

Last night the four of us were talking about this problem of making childhood last as long as possible and relating how childhood seemed innocent to us. Long ago, I overheard my mom saying to my dad that he needed to have 'the talk with me' since I was about to get married. I awaited the TALK with some trepidation, and finally Dad said, "Have you been to the drugstore?" That was my talk. Fortunately, I had been to the drugstore. The stories from the other three were similar, until Pat described sitting on a large water tank, that was fortunately located on the ground, with a friend, and they were talking about SEX. At some point in the conversation Pat was asked how many kids were in his family and responded four. "Well, you know your folks had sex four times then!" In a rage, Pat hit the other boy and knocked him off the tank, since his folks would not do something like have SEX. How innocent we were. Let's keep it that way for kids as long as possible.