I have a son who turns eight soon. Like a lot of kids, he has access to the Internet. One he started reading I set up NetNanny and made sure he didn’t know the password. I still pay attention to what he’s doing, and I make sure he’s not online unsupervised. It’s just common sense not to let your kid go online, type in an easy search phrase, and see some wildly inappropriate stuff. This is one issue that makes me yearn for the day when some tame print media was the only access a kid would have to adult material.
So that’s why I’m annoyed at Jenny McCarthy’s ignorant comment about her kid seeing her Playboy spread. I don’t have a problem with kids seeing their parents nude, as long as it’s a casual thing around the house and no one makes a big deal out of it. (My son’s father is German, and they have a much different attitude about it. They’re basically nudists by American standards.) It’s iffy when it’s a sexually charged thing meant for a different audience, but in theory I really wouldn’t care if her son saw it. (He’s probably going to be embarrassed about it when he gets older and his friends know about it, but that’s another story.) I would care if her 10 year-old kid could see anything he wanted on the entire Internet, and that seems to be what Jenny is suggesting here. Or is she making a stupid joke or some other point? Here’s what she said:
Jenny McCarthy, who calls her new Playboy pictorial “a salute to the MILFs,” doesn’t have any qualms about posing nude even though she’s a mom to 10-year-old Evan.
“I think he can find a lot worse available on the Internet these days,” she tells PEOPLE. “I think people make such a big deal sometimes about it, when I feel like it just comes down to how you raise your child and how you explain things to your kid.”
As for how she’ll talk about the spread with her son, she says, “Evan and I will have that conversation someday.”
[From People]
The more this woman opens her mouth, the more she irks me. Of course her kid can “find a lot worse available on the Internet,” but it’s her job as a mother to try and make sure that doesn’t happen. Didn’t she call herself a “warrior mom” on Oprah? Or does that only involve trying to safeguard her son’s health and not his well being? She did let him wear Uggs out with shorts. Maybe she’s just saying her spread in Playboy is tame compared to what it could be. For someone else, I would give her the benefit of the doubt, but she just bugs me.
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