LOL, that's pretty silly. These same kids have access to the internet which contains stuff that I had never even heard of when I was in elementary school. The average elementary school student can find more porn on their phone in 5 minutes than most people have ever seen. I think that horse left the barn a ling time ago.

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I'm not sure I agree.

My 6 year old kids have no idea what porn or sex is. I don't think they even have a clue what the words mean.

Having access to or understanding what sex / oral sex / porn, etc. is, is different for say 5 to 7 year old kids than for 11 to 12 year old kids.

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Agreed, but by the time they are likely to look up "dirty" words in a dictionary, they would also know what to look for online.

Agreed. And what they find in the dictionary is going to be a lot less damaging than what they find online or from their friends. Heck, maybe they'll actually learn something useful in the process. I can remember as a youngster looking up, with delight, the "F word" in the dictionary, giggling at the fact that it was there, but not coming out of it knowing anything I didn't know before. It's unlikely any child who had never heard that word would stumble upon it by chance. And if so, they'd breeze right by it, not knowing it was something rebellious enough to repeat.

As far as I'm concerned, banning the dictionary is a nod to lazy parents and teachers who don't want to take the time to actually discuss such matters as sex or foul language with their children. And in that laziness they're taking away a sea of interesting benign language that could expand a child's ability to communicate and think in a creative manner.

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You are forgetting the most important source. The misinformation from their latest BFF.

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That's true.

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2001 E430, Bourdeaux Red, Oyster interior.
79,200 miles.

1973 280SE 4.5, 170,000 miles. 568 Signal Red, Black MB Tex. "The Red Baron".

Oh man I am a complete failure at raising kids!
I keep telling my kids "Look it up! Its in the dictionary!" trying to encourage them to come up with things more creative than common swearing when they are insulting each other.
Somehow I thought that would be better than telling them "Google it! Its on the internet somewhere!"

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Yoda: So sure, are you? Do you lock your kids up in a room all day long and restrict their contact with the outside world? This is where the idea that you can't get pregnant the first time you have sex spreads.

Either they can read it from a more clinical source or there is their BFF who can explain it. You choose.

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