Children growing up in the theatres, would being introduced to adult matters at this early an age be a good thing or would it be harmful to them??? Translated…
In the recent stage performance productions I’d participated in, there were, two very young female performers, one is eight, the other five, they are, sisters, and are the daughters of the male stage actor in the production. I saw children who grew up in the stage settings of theatres earlier who’d tagged along their parents, they’re not afraid of strangers, and are all very intelligent and active. There’s, an enormous amount of information in theatre, and, the children will use what understanding they have acquired for the world to understand this concentrated form of the adult world. Sometimes, they would inquire, but wouldn’t necessarily get the answers, and even if the answers were given to them, they may not understand them at all.
books on gender differences for young children, picture from online…
S has a line, making references to porn. During the rehearsals, the two young girls arrived to before her, asked, “S, what’s X-rated film?”, with their big and round eyes, twinkling.
“A film which most men loved watching.” S picked up the iPad used as her pro, pointed to the photos of the naked women on it. “But…………….it’s watched by some women too.”
The sisters became even more confused.
“Just go ask your dad.”, I’d, pushed them lightly toward their father, and looked at S and smiled.
“Daddy, daddy, what’s X-rated film?”, those round and bright eyes twinkled on again.
“Uh, it’s, um, tell you what, there are, a vast variety of films, A,B,C,D,E,F,G………the worst kind is the X-rated films!”, as S and I listened in, we were already, chuckling. And the two young girls ran back toward us again.
“Why would the worst film be listed as the firsts?”, S was laughing so hard she could barely talk.
using an anatomically correct doll to teach children abotu gender differences…NOT my photo
“Go ask the uncle what X-rated film is?”, I’d stated, pointed toward the male actor I was playing the opposite to. The two young girls ran to him quickly. The children get their exercises, running to and from on a set.
“Uncle, what’s an X-rated film?”
“X-rated film, uh…it’s, ummmm………there are, many different films, one among the A,B,C,D’s”, it’s weird, how the men who were around twelve years apart, came up with the exact same answers, I was laughing so hard I couldn’t keep my back straight with S.
S insisted, that we should, explain to the young girls, within the realms of what was acceptable, what X-rated films were to them, until the five-year-old child finally made her own conclusions, from our real-life props on her own.
“So, it’s a girl’s body, right?”, the young girl spoke, excitedly, like she’d just found, a cute kitten.
“Yup!”, everybody on set hollered aloud!
“What’s so fun about looking at the naked bodies?”, the older child inquired.
“Go ask your dad!”, S spoke, and looked toward their dad, and, he’d laughed two dry laughs.
Awhile ago, there was a movie, “Captain Fantastic”, about how a father who took six young children, using his own methods, not limited by any sort of principals in education, teaching his own young. One of the concepts was, explaining to the kids, anything that’s beyond their measures of comprehension, for instance, their mother committing suicide because of depression, not only because she was sick. If it were this Captain Fantastic dad, maybe, he would consider, putting on the pornography for the five-year-olds. I don’t know, if I have children, I would, follow his methodology of approach, teaching them in all honesty about what they’d inquired, but S had a thought that I agreed to, “The children who grew up in the theatres matured earlier, but they wouldn’t turn bad. Even if they are to face the evils of the world, at least, they’d had previous encounters on set already.”
Here’s a little girl! Not my photo still…
Surely, how many five-year-old, eight-year-old young children, would know, this early, that boys (including daddies) would wrap up the facts about a woman’s naked body with lies. Not long from now, I’m sure, that they will, understand the matter fully.
But, this also pose a huge problem, the children, because they grew up in the theatres, where adult subjects were portrayed a lot, they may be exposed to things they’re not mentally ready for at too young an age, and that, is how innocence lost, but, the writer has made a good point too, on that if the children were introduced to these adult matters at an earlier age, they may be better equipped to handle the adult matters when they come face-to-face with the issues, so there are pros AND cons.
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