Good ol' Janiqua seemed to like Stop Dressing Your Six-year-old Like a Skank, so I've been liking it too. Rivenbark is a modern Bombeck (by what, twenty years?) and Southern to boot. She isn't for the mild-mannered, bless her heart. I've even caught Mr. Right reading the pink book on the sly.
Pink.
Do you remember that's The Princess's favorite color...which draws her in like a bear to honey? Or rather like a girl to a glass slipper.
"Mom, what's the name of your book?"
I'm an honest lady, "Stop Dressing Your Six-year-old Like a Skank". Then I awaited the inevitable.
"What's a Skank?"
"A girl who doesn't dress modest and tries to get boys to kiss her." (What would you say to a five year old?)
The Princess considered my wisdom.
Then for clarification I added one more peice. At first I was going to use Paris H. as a specimen but changed my mind at the last second remembering my daughter was still innocent, despite the growing vocabulary. Instead I told her, "Potipher's wife was a skank."
Thus we see that reading is good for the whole family, and too, the scriptures have the answers for every parenting dilemma.