tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20429083.post5837913292609228703..comments2024-03-19T05:26:04.770-04:00Comments on A Year of Reading: I'm Seriously Offended, and NOT by the Word ScrotumMary Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078793537148794310noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20429083.post-53264734653212282922007-02-20T22:37:00.000-05:002007-02-20T22:37:00.000-05:00Did you read it yet? I got my mom to read it toda...Did you read it yet? I got my mom to read it today, and she really liked it.Nancyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09565452997974328700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20429083.post-43227614902521037492007-02-19T00:27:00.000-05:002007-02-19T00:27:00.000-05:00Hoorah. I am really pleased to see this manifesto....Hoorah. I am really pleased to see this manifesto. Anyone think we're too busy protecting our kids from the wrong things?????Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20429083.post-39778137786143841172007-02-18T23:21:00.000-05:002007-02-18T23:21:00.000-05:00Thanks for this post Mary Lee. Nicely done!Thanks for this post Mary Lee. Nicely done!Nancyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09565452997974328700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20429083.post-49901359634811082462007-02-18T16:28:00.000-05:002007-02-18T16:28:00.000-05:00I liked your point about how teaching is not for s...I liked your point about how teaching is not for sissies, and kids can sometimes ask teachers questions that they wouldn't ask their parents. I think you're absolutely right to use proper terms, and not be afraid to use them. Personally, I live with a urologist, so I hear words like this all the time, so I'm pretty de-sensitized. I think I would have read the book without even noticing, but of course it's much too late for that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20429083.post-62516073058325411532007-02-18T13:35:00.000-05:002007-02-18T13:35:00.000-05:00Were a librarian actually to be trained as a teach...Were a librarian actually to be trained as a teacher, I would tend to agree with you. However, the fact is that they are not trained as such and have no direct path to the teaching of children other than that they work in an institution which provides books.<BR/><BR/>That a child - of whatever age - should ask you about breast cancer, and use the word breast, is hardly because you are a librarian. He could have asked absolutely anyone. The use of the word breast is, here, also not unusual, since that is how he would have heard it being referred to. Children ask about things that they have heard, and they ask whoever they wish, regardless of the person's job, training or nail polish.<BR/><BR/>Perhaps those librarians who are against this single, innocuous word - and it is by no means all librarians - would care to suggest alternate words? Such as 'sack' or 'nuts' or 'balls'? These are all street-language words, once used in slang and, often, when swearing. I would rather a child knew the correct term for this part of the anatomy, and when to use it in polite company, than that a child stood before the vicar and commented on a book about someone's balls being chewed off. 'He was bitten in the scrotum' sounds considerably better, anatomically correct and, to be honest, polite.<BR/><BR/>Pi.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20429083.post-69936962751409441372007-02-18T09:48:00.000-05:002007-02-18T09:48:00.000-05:00I LOVE that you include us librarians as teachers ...I LOVE that you include us librarians as teachers and influences on the kids that we teach - sending you a big cyber hug for that. I too have a comment on the situation at my new blog www.librarianstew.blogspot.com<BR/><BR/>KathyAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03844867871179578637noreply@blogger.com