Hey Christians! Explain Abortion to Your Kids...

Don't tell them the president kills babies! It confuses them and they have nightmares about the president drowning or stabbing or shooting innocent babies. If you must indoctrinate them into your belief that killing a FETUS is wrong, then do it correctly or wait till they are older and can understand your rhetoric.

A few months ago, my 9 yr old son made a new friend. This boy is my son's age and he has a younger brother. After about a month, we invited both boys to spend the night with my son. The three of them were playing video games, I was working on the computer when I hear my child adamantly saying, "Ask my MOM, she knows. That's not true!" So, thinking I had a squabble to settle I call them in to inquire what wasn't true.

"Does President Obama kill babies?"
My face contorts, "Huh?"
"They said the president kills babies!"
"Why do you think that?"
"Our parents said so."

How to approach this? At this age children can be very impressionable, and my son is no exception. "Well, that's not true. The 'president' doesn't kill babies, your parents just must be mistaken." I, for one, am not ready to explain to my child about abortion. He is too young for information about all that. He is too young to comprehend it. And I refuse to explain it the others, that's their parent's job, not mine. The boys take my word for it and go play.

Parents, if you want to teach your children to believe as you do, please arm them with information, not dribble that can be proven false. Just as you can right now say he kills babies because he won't ban abortion, others can say that he kills mothers who would lose their lives without one if he did ban it. Currently the decision is up to the mother and she is to bear responsibility for all that comes with it.

Unfortunately, I had to explain abortion to my son, because now he was curious. Some time later he brought it up while we were driving. I explained it was a medical procedure and the different feelings people had about it. I also explained to him why it would be needed sometimes or wanted. I let him know that when it comes to our bodies, both men and women's, it should be up to that person what kind of medical treatment they get, not to the goverment. He agreed.