02-27-2009, 7:35 AM
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What do you think?
A friend sent me a link to a newstory. It seems there is a program in England for young children that hired a new hostess. The woman is missing a hand. Several people protested and one said his children "freaked out".
As the parent of kids who have limb differences all that fuss offends me. I would think parents would be grateful to have the opportunity to teach thier children about such things in the privacy of thier home. Otherwise the child would see someone in a grocery store, or at school or a birthday party or somewhere and freak out in public. Would it not be better for the child to see this person on TV and have the parents explain that it's OK and that some people are different and it's nothing to be afraid of or upset about? What do you think?             
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02-27-2009, 5:53 PM
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Personally, I think it is great for exactly the reasons you stated. To be able to discuss it with my kids in the home instead of them being 'freaked out' in a public setting. What a great opportunity for discussion about differences!
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02-28-2009, 12:49 PM
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I think it's great too. I think that children's programs should expose kids' to all kinds of different people. It would be a HUGE controversy to keep, say, a person of a specific race off the television program based on race, so why shouldn't it be a controversy to keep a woman with a limb difference off the television program based on that?
And since she GOT the job, it would appear that would be the only reason for removing her. I think that if a kid was "freaked out" then it says something to the parents - that they should talk to their kids!!! If everytime parents had to explain something new to their kids they just freaked out and ran away from the problem - well, those of you with kids know how little would get done!
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