All this over a naked bum or two!
Let’s get a few things straight:
1) I do not shove my daughter’s face into my ass cheeks and command her to sing. They did that at Guantanamo Bay. I choose waterboarding when my children misbehave, as most sane parents do.
2) I did not choose the subtitle: “…clothing-optional policy….” Nudity is strictly enforced here, as the postal carriers, UPS man, and neighbors can attest to. Our dogs are nude at all times, or we beat them.
3) I don’t fake it, Dawn. Ever. “Sensitivity” on the blog, or the big O in bed. You’ve already got your opinion about the blog, but if you’d like to whoop it up between the sheets and judge my sincerity there, email me and we’ll work something out. Then you’ll really have something to write about. That depraved woman at Breed ‘Em and Weep! Did this thing! With her tongue! What a harlot! I asked her to do it again and again so I could tell you about it!
Truly: The cruel comments knocked the wind out of me and made me want to stick a fork in the electric outlet. No lie. I did not see them coming.
Why do I write? I look forward to handing over 10,000 pages of life stories to my girls someday. I want to hand them their early years, with love. I want to give them all I can and say, “I loved you so much that I wrote this down. I was paying attention. This is what I saw. This was our life together. You mattered. You matter. You will always matter.”
My naked tushie? Not so much.
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Your posts make me cry. I am so sorry. that you’re going through all of this. (((hugs)))
those horrid commenters? They dislike themselves and are uncomfortable within their own skin, and like mean girls and boys everywhere, seek to ridicule anyone strong enough to do what they secretly yearn to do or be and try to tear those of us who stand up and say FUCK YOUR conventions.
Show your girls how to shake their booty and be comfortable in their own skins.
The haters can go suck it.
Oh my goodness.
I am so sorry, Jenn, that some people took the beautiful, accepting, playful time you have with your daughters and read perversion into it.
*sigh*
but I get you. Power to the peeps, girl. Your daughters will learn to laugh and love and not be ashamed of their bodies. Love ya…
I thought your article was wonderful – warm, humorous and inspiring. You might be interested in a similar debate going on over here in Australia – http://www.essentialbaby.com.au/ (under the ‘We are Discussing’ banner on the bottom left).
I don’t have kids yet, but I hope that one day I can teach my daughters the same valuable lesson – that we are all lovely, just as we are.
Thank you for saying so eloquently what captures so many hearts. I am still reading and tearing up right along with you. http://tinyurl.com/m5fpff
Jenn. Keep going with the writing. Keep showing those small minded morons that you will not be beaten by their stupidity and ignorance. I feel sorry for people like that because they aren’t as lucky as you or I to have the family, the bonds with our mothers and daughters the way we have with ours.
Don’t be dissuaded. You are way better than them.
Long time lurker here who could barely read through those comments there. I have 4 daughters, ranging in age from 17 to 10(twins) and there’s no shame in this house when it comes to the female body. While my girls understand that daddy needs privacy because he isn’t made like us, no one freaks out when they catch me on the toilet, or I catch them pulling on a bra or changing out of a swimsuit. Girly bits are just body parts, like toes or ears. They only become sexual parts when someone with a penis and a small brain doesn’t understand that nude moments among female family members is healthy because it shows the little ones that we are all different and that’s ok.
Don’t let those weirdos bother you.
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