Chickens, Sex and the Second Grade

I was speaking with a guy the other day who was telling me about his chickens.  "I got them to teach my children responsibility," he said with a grin.  Chickens have to be cared for, protected [from hawks!], and eventually plucked.  But his children have grown such an attachment to them that "frying them up" would cause more tragedy than traction in the parenting process.  They have therefore, decided to eat the eggs instead of the chickens themselves.

I asked how he liked the eggs.  He said he loved them, they tasted great and they give great opportunities to talk to his little boy about "the birds and the bees."  You see, when his boy asked him if the eggs that they harvested would eventually hatch, he was locked into the discussion about fertilization.  And to a second grader, a simple, "Well son...the mommy chicken just needs a daddy chicken to fertilize the egg..." just doesn't cut it.  You can see the puzzled little lad...and you can hear him too, "Why daddy?"

The guy then proceeded to tell me about how he started saying the word "sex" around his children in normal conversation.  He didn't want the newness of the word to spark their interest elsewhere.  Then he told the story.

His boy came home one day from school (2nd grade).  He walked over to his dad and said, "Hey dad, lets get on the computer and look at playboy.com.  In shock, he said something like, "Why do you want to go there?  Where did you hear about that?"  The boy replied, "My friends at school were talking about it today.  They said we could go there and see naked girls."  My friend was obviously startled by his son's interest, but he was also grateful that his son came to him first.  I would be too.

Used to, a person had to go find some pornography and then sneak it back to the house.  Now, pornography finds you.  Even in the second grade...even from second graders!

Here is a good article to read/watch about how to start talking to our children about sex.

Here is a reality check for every parent with an internet connection and kids.  I may have posted this before...not sure.


Would you buy your son a stack of pornographic magazines? from Randy Alcorn on Vimeo.