So a slip-up at a New Jersey Comcast office Tuesday resulted in some porn being shown during an episode of Playhouse Disney's "Handy Manny."
“It was two people doing their thing, it was full-on and it was disgusting,” said a father whose 5-year-old son apparently got to see an entirely different kind of tool than the ones in Handy Manny's talking crew.
I'm trying to decide how I would have handled this situation in my house. I guess it would depend largely on the genders of those involved. From the disgusted father's comments, I'm going to assume the participants were a man and a woman.
Clearly, this isn't something that's appropriate for Sam to see now. But neither is animated walking skeletons like in "Pirates of the Carribean" or characters punching each other on "SpongeBob Squarepants."
I learned the hard way once with Sam that if you made a big deal out of something that's obviously off-limits to her, she'll be waaaaaaaaay more interested in it. (We had to talk to Daddy about controlling his outbursts while using a hammer). So I think in this case, I would have blocked her view of the TV, distracted her by pointing out that Mojo was chomping down on one of her stuffed animals, then changed the channel -- fast.
Sex is a healthy part of life, and I don't want to teach her -- directly or indirectly -- that it's dirty or bad. But I don't really want her first exposure to it to be hardcore porn, either.
And really, c'mon, this little TV "accident" couldn't have happened during a more aptly named show.
What do you think? How would you have handled it?
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