Sex Ed By Way of Animal Planet

I'm so glad that my nearly 7-year-old daughter has found something clean, educational, and non-kid that she really likes to watch on the Telly. She LOVES "Animal Planet," which is so cool. I'm convinced she's going to be a veterinarian based on her passion for animals, and her pretty strong desire not to eat them! Don't know where that comes from--though when I fed her lunch on Saturday she squealed, "Daddy, I love meat!" as she ate her ham. I didn't want to spoil it for her by disclosing that she was eating pig.

My "Animal Planet" house of cards came tumbling down, however, when I overheard the announcer intoning recently about different mating patterns of various mammals. My wife and I screamed in unison, "Turn it off! Turn it off!" We've got to have "the talk", before I let some polar bear give her all the visuals.