Would it help to feed them an apple?
3 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”
2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”
4 “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. 5 “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”
10 He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”
11 And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
12 The man said, “The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
13 Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?”
The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
Not so fast with that assumption, Kit. The reaction to learning about nudity and its various nuances cannot be lumped into a single category. Some cultures and customs deal with infants’ nudity, children’s nudity, all even all human nudity differently. Look at the so-called “counter-culture” in the Western world known as hippies. Nudity and near-nudity are more common among them than the wider culture. Certain peoples and/or tribes worldwide, especially depending on climate, practice nudity as a normal way of everyday life.
Furthermore, some children on an individual basis do not see anything wrong with being naked, even if and when parents try to present it otherwise. The examples of the children who go running stark naked from the bathtub to the living room full of dinner guests, or trotting proudly outside to play in the yard while in the buff come to mind.
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Art Lover 