Originally Posted by 2giftgirls
Originally Posted by epoh
DS7 is reading Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. He's also reading a terrible book from his school library called "Super Diaper Baby" ugh.

Hahahaha! DD8 is on HP Order of the Phoenix. That's the first one the gets REALLY long...she got SDB from the other 3rd grade teacher. Disgusting, but it made her smile and school related things generally don't frown. I think it's a sign of the times that we even pander to children in that way...in an effort to get them to read at all, they are offered tripe like that when there are wonderful books that are still fun and funny without being gross.

On the other hand, I too enjoy a good fart joke from time to time, though I do not allow the use of the word FART in my house wink

I consider it developmentally-appropriate humor, which fits in with my overall "let kids be kids" philosophy. It takes a while to appreciate more subtle humor like irony, but potty humor is instantly accessible. So not only do I permit it, I indulge.

My daughter recently had a homework assignment in which she had to give a parent a test on her spelling words, and we had to do it twice, because I wrote "poop" eleven times on the first one.