We Aren't In Chuck E. Cheese's Anymore Dorothy

My game obsessed 6-year-old Cash and I were driving down the seedier part of Mission Street in San Francisco recently when he spotted a sign for an arcade and yelled, "Stop the car!!" I obviously wouldn't have stopped anyway but I made the mistake of explaining to him that it is an "adult arcade," not one like the arcade at Pier 39 where we had been the day before. The multiple XXX's did not deter him.

"What kind of games does an adult arcade have," he asked.

"Naked ones," I said. At a loss to go any further, he filled the silence. "Like 'Take Your Clothes off Wii?"

At that point, after I stopped laughing, I was forced to change the subject because I had no idea how to proceed. What would you have done?

Comments

[Georgia McNamara]

I LOVE it--and you know someone must be working on that exact Wii game. They're hard concepts because if you haven't talked about sex, or more than how babies are born, it's just going to confuse them. Thanks to an episode of a reality cooking show (Chef Academy), I had to explain what a porn star is to a 9 year old boy. I ended up saying, "Someone who takes their clothes off for money". Technically not true, but close enough--in the right industry?