英語検定ライティング準１級（第276回）

絵本「批判的なものの見方の話」

こどもが必要以上に批判的なものの見方をすると周囲から浮くかもしれないが他人の意見に無批判で従うのもよくない。子育てに絵本を使うなら批判的に読むのも許されるのではないか。
Not a few children have more critical perspectives toward something evaluated than necessary, who tend to be treated as someone eccentric and strange in Japan.
But someone obedient and reasonable without anything critical toward others’ opinions finds it challenging to survive such an unreasonable and unpersuasive society.
When we raise children with a picture book, they should be allowed to read it in the negative viewpoint, he says.

これを踏まえて絵本を見ると教訓的なものがほとんどだ。つまり絵本を通して大人はこどもに重要な何かを伝えるのだ。だから絵本の中にはモラルに反するようなことは出てこないのだ。
Considering that, we tend to consider several contents of a picture book as something instructive when we read it.
In short, numerous adults tell their children something indispensable in our society through it, he assumes.
So we are unlikely to see something immoral in a picture book, which seems natural as an instructive material.

だが性教育も早期の段階から実施するべきだという法案が通ったら絵本の中にもエロい何かが描写されるかもしれない。絵本だから絵も生々しいものになる可能性もある。あり得ないが。
But we have a small number of possibilities that sexual education should be conducted much earlier, and this kind of bill might pass through the Diet, an article says.
Such an impossible incident would enable something erotic to be drawn in picture books, simultaneously, such a description could be much vivider than we imagine.

もしそうなら大人はどのように批判的な解釈をするのか。あれとこれの順序が反対だとかうんちくを述べるのか。上と下が反対になってるとか。交際してから性交渉をしているのかとか。
These impossible accidents realized, adults tend to find it challenging to have their critical attitudes toward too erotic descriptions because they seem too vivid, he says.
They must explain that the orders about erotic behaviors should be reversible because this order enables us to feel more pleasant and more comfortable, which might unexpectedly be correct in the sexual viewpoint, he says.
Their upper body and lower body could be changeable.
In addition, the boys-girls relationship should become accompanied by their sexual conducts and so on.