{"id":4178,"date":"2010-06-15T12:56:39","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T17:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=4178"},"modified":"2010-06-15T12:57:04","modified_gmt":"2010-06-15T17:57:04","slug":"on-censorship-and-potty-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2010\/06\/15\/on-censorship-and-potty-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"On censorship and potty talk"},"content":{"rendered":"

H<\/span>ow can you not roll your eyes at this story? <\/p>\n

Apparently<\/a>, Ottawa author Kevin Bolger, who wrote a kids’ book with the snicker-worthy title of Sir Fartsalot Hunts the Booger<\/em>, was stopped a few minutes into his reading at an Ottawa elementary school yesterday and pulled aside by the principal, who then canceled the rest of the reading entirely. According to the school board superintendent, “the principal was concerned about a character in the new book called ‘Mrs. Imavitch’, which rhymes with a derogatory word.”<\/p>\n

The superintendent went on to say, “[The principal] was a little concerned about what might be interpreted by the kids of the language. They’ve been working hard this year on their character initiative \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 [on] respectful language to one another. She just felt that with the age range of the kids it was better that they not discuss that today until they could put the whole thing in context.”<\/p>\n

Seriously? I mean, for one thing, the first thing that comes to my mind when I think of words that rhyme with “Imavitch” starts with a W, not a B. And for goodness sake, the school didn’t get the hint that there be potty humour ahead when they signed on for a book reading that had both farts AND boogers in the title?<\/p>\n

Okay, so I’m biased. In a house with three boys ranging from two to eight years of age, I have come to realize that there is no higher art form to a young boy than a well-worded fart joke. You should hear them howling with laughter when Beloved reads them Captain Underpants<\/em>, or even the How to Train Your Dragon<\/em> series. It’s the sweetest sound in the world, and it makes them love books even more. I say, if it gets them reading, I’m fine with a little potty humour here and there.<\/p>\n

CBC.ca notes that Kevin Bolger is scheduled to read at seven more Ottawa schools on his current reading tour. I only wish our boys were lucky enough to go to one of those schools, and I dearly hope the next seven schools show more sense than the administrators at Manor Park Public School did. Lighten up, people! A little silliness is a wonderful thing.<\/p>\n

What do you think? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How can you not roll your eyes at this story? Apparently, Ottawa author Kevin Bolger, who wrote a kids’ book with the snicker-worthy title of Sir Fartsalot Hunts the Booger, was stopped a few minutes into his reading at an Ottawa elementary school yesterday and pulled aside by the principal, who then canceled the rest … Continue reading “On censorship and potty talk”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-in-ottawa","category-mothering-without-a-licence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4178"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4180,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4178\/revisions\/4180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}