By Dyske September 19th, 2007
I was completely puzzled when I heard about this latest woe of Britney Spears. I did not realize that some people considered being naked in front of a 2-year old boy as inappropriate. That seems strange to me. Don’t parents take baths with their little kids? Are you supposed to wear swimsuits in the bath with your kids?
In Japan, it’s quite common to take baths with your kids. In the popular children’s movie, “Totoro”, (released in the US by Disney) there is a scene where the father takes a bath with his two daughters. The older one is probably about 8 years old (or even older). Disney must have faced a moral dilemma where they debated whether to remove that scene for the US release.
Becky says:
March 9th, 2008 at 4:32 pmI showed Totoro to a class of British 8 and 9 year olds a few months ago and the bath scene did elicit lots of giggles, but when we talked about it after the film it was clear they just thought it was a difference between British and Japanese culture and that there was nothing wrong with it. None of the adults in the room thought there was anything wrong with it either