Flaffy
I understand but...
I think it also depends on the child too if the child at like 8 already acts like a 12-year-old in the amount of responsibility/maturity. And you trust the child to take the good in a novel, but ofc also watching them and their intake then it should be fine.
I get more nervous about Youtube these days, I found one of the kids watching pranks on Youtube about sex, I cut off their Youtube immediately and punished them for watching it even though they knew it wasn't right.
Now I watch everything like a hawk. Give too much leeway and they become too arrogant about their new found success.
I just believe that parents should be more concerned about what the kids are doing on their devices, no matter what. As long as a novel doesn't have murder and over arrogant tendencies, I'd be fine with letting a child read it.
Sadly none of the kids are interested in any of the offers I make. Welp. More for me, less for me to have to manage.
Meanwhile, the true mother is so flipping annoyingly laid back. I feel like I have to work doubly hard to make up for her... Your one kid turned out like a mess, you know. Maybe don't ruin the lives of your other kids too, pls?
God knows I wish someone would have told her to act more like a parent in limiting me what I found online...
But nah, America is way too sexualized... I started seeing porn around me when I was like 4...
Not kidding but I'd wake up in the middle of the night, and hear straight moans from the TV set. I'd be hiding behind the couch like, what's that woman doing naked on the teli? It didn't register in my mind, but I'm definitly a step or two off the right direction I would have taken if not for my uncle/grandfather living in the same house as me at the time.
Not to mention the porn mags in the bathroom I used to find and flip throughout of curiosity. Or the absurd numbers of condoms I'd find literally everywhere. Thankfully no open, used ones though, ew. Or the porn films, with proper porn covers, found in the car.... Like what?
My mind was made up after 10 years old that porn was a normal way of life. Only got to know it wasn't by 13, when I started to watch it myself when no one was home. And finally had like semi proper friends to ask.
But by then I was already fucked up. I try to keep myself away from that shit as much as possible but I used to watch/read daily porn for like 3-4 years or so.
THANKFULLY though. I kept my purity- mostly cause no one I knew was interested. But at least I was lucky enough to be spared!
I can make up for my lack of purity in my mind, with the purity in my body.
And I try to make it into a light hearted thing by using it as my form of humor instead of my form of life.
Works pretty okay...
I still feel pretty annoyed at my family though for not being more careful. But that's just how my family is. Not really caring all that much. So I try to work extra hard for the kids. Being a parent when I'm not a parent. Most of the times I'm not here talking, they're taking up my time. Or I'm reading. They have school anyways...
Only the most mature girl knows about sexual things, but because I've told her to watch the others and keep away from it all.
She's not even the oldest one though, just has a better more mature mentality, very protective...
But even still I have to watch out for her too.