Beyond Ridiculous

Mandy recently received some email coupons from Books-A-Million and while we were traveling we decided to stop by and use them (we don't have BaM's in R Springs, you know)...

I was searching for some books on my list and she was doing the same. BaM stores have a children's section, complete with toys, so we let the kids have fun with the trains while we continued our searches. During one of my journeys to check on them, I noticed Dawson had picked out a comic book for himself. It looked innocent enough and I legitimately thought Mandy had approved the selection so I placed it on top of her stack of books. She glanced at it and said, "Where did this come from?"

My response was, "I thought you let him have it."

She informed me that she had never seen it before. Flipping through the pages, Mandy then abruptly threw the book! I picked it up, to find that it was a pornographic comic book filled with Sci-Fi beastiality. Within its pages were some of the most gruesome images I have ever seen and I was staggered to realize my two-year old son had been innocently digesting its pages.

Someone with beyond ridiculous intentions had placed a perverse comic book in the children's section and my son had stumbled across it. To say I was mad was an understatement, but I believe Mandy's temperature level topped even my own. The anger was too late though, the incident had already transpired and as a result we learned a valuable lesson about constantly filtering the things which our kids pick up--even in the believed safe zone a of children's book section. The enemy is ever waiting to steal, kill and destroy.

BaM should be more intentional about wrapping adult-content books in some type of seal that would prevent innocent intake of their filth, but until they do the responsibility of our children's purity rests on the watchful eye of us parents...

For certain a lesson has been learned by this father...