Oh, for heaven's sake...

This article was on my Comcast home page today. ( Gay Penguin Book Shakes Up Ill. School )

This is the part that annoyed me the most: Lilly Del Pinto thought the book looked charming when her 5-year-old daughter brought it home in September. Del Pinto said she was halfway through reading it to her daughter "when the zookeeper said the two penguins must be in love."

"That's when I ended the story," she said. Because love is bad? love=sex? Come on. They're penguins. God forbid you use this as an opportunity to explore the idea that there are all kinds of people in the world.

Oh, for heaven's sake...

This article was on my Comcast home page today. ( Gay Penguin Book Shakes Up Ill. School )

This is the part that annoyed me the most: Lilly Del Pinto thought the book looked charming when her 5-year-old daughter brought it home in September. Del Pinto said she was halfway through reading it to her daughter "when the zookeeper said the two penguins must be in love."

"That's when I ended the story," she said. Because love is bad? love=sex? Come on. They're penguins. God forbid you use this as an opportunity to explore the idea that there are all kinds of people in the world.

Penguins! An Update

That book is based on a true story. The penguins actually exist and live in the Central Park Zoo! The two boy penguins mated with each other, basically, and then put a rock into a nest, hoping it would hatch out a baby, so the zoo put a fertilized egg in their nest, and they got their wish.

I bought the book for Charlie as a Christmas gift. I can't wait to read it.

In sadder news, although still speaking of same-sex parents, the foster kids are officially gone. My friend said she was okay until a kindergardener saw her and said, "I know you! You're Amber's Mom!"

Thanks for all your kind words on their behalf. I just pray that the kids will be okay.

And, just to lighten the mood, a quick Charlie story:

The other night he was talking about wanting this wall mural of the view of Earth from the moon. (I just spent way too much time trying to find it online, and couldn't. grr).

I told him I wasn't sure he had the wall space to do it, then I said it could maybe go behind his dresser with the mirror. He misunderstood, I guess, and thought I was saying we'd take down the mirror, so he said, "How will I be able to see how handsome I am?"

Penguins! An Update

That book is based on a true story. The penguins actually exist and live in the Central Park Zoo! The two boy penguins mated with each other, basically, and then put a rock into a nest, hoping it would hatch out a baby, so the zoo put a fertilized egg in their nest, and they got their wish.

I bought the book for Charlie as a Christmas gift. I can't wait to read it.

In sadder news, although still speaking of same-sex parents, the foster kids are officially gone. My friend said she was okay until a kindergardener saw her and said, "I know you! You're Amber's Mom!"

Thanks for all your kind words on their behalf. I just pray that the kids will be okay.

And, just to lighten the mood, a quick Charlie story:

The other night he was talking about wanting this wall mural of the view of Earth from the moon. (I just spent way too much time trying to find it online, and couldn't. grr).

I told him I wasn't sure he had the wall space to do it, then I said it could maybe go behind his dresser with the mirror. He misunderstood, I guess, and thought I was saying we'd take down the mirror, so he said, "How will I be able to see how handsome I am?"