An alternative to "pinkwashing".

I mean, obviously there are as many ways of dealing with editing/bowderlizing the content that one's child reads—or choosing not to do so at all—as there are parents, but I thought this was an especially good way of making an uncomfortable moment into a teaching/learning moment, instead of an avoiding moment:

I performed my own stumbling act when my daughter was in 5th grade. She wanted to read the Twilight trilogy because she had just finished the Harry Potter books and was forlornly casting about for a series to read. But almost more importantly, her friend was reading it, too. I read the first two books as if I was downing a bag of chips before I let her start. As she was beginning book two, I began book three, “Eclipse.” Oh my. Things ramped up quickly with supernatural marital sex and the most gruesome childbirth ever. I twitched with my desire to forbid her to read it or to black out passages, but I don’t have that kind of hubris. She could just read her friend’s copy at school. I put away my marker and got out my paperclips instead. I marked every place where she needed to stop and come to me for a discussion. We ended up having the most interesting “birds and bees” talks comparing and contrasting the supernatural with reality. It also set the precedent that I was open for discussion and that I trusted my daughter’s intelligence.

But, as I said previously, to each one's own.