You mean they’re not the same?
Yesterday while I was changing a particularly stinky diaper (Honor says “Poopoo, uuk”), Eden discovered the difference between girls and boys. She said, “Mom Honor has a sore” as she pointed to his penis.
This is where it gets kind of tricky. I don’t want my kids to be the ones who go around to all their friends and inform them of their body parts and their functions. But I also don’t want my kids to be learning about things of this nature from their friends. I guess the way I view it is that if I’m the one who wants to educate my kids, then I need to make sure I’m the first one on the job.
So I told her, “Girls and boys have different peepees. Honor has a penis.”
She said, “A penis?”
I replied, “Yes, and you have a vagina.”
Her response, “Oh.”
And that was that.
Category: Kids 4 comments »
May 24th, 2005 at 9:19 am
Oh. Cute.
I am glad that you had such a good time camping. i was thinking about you guys and the smores all weekend! Ok, maybe mostly the smores:)
May 24th, 2005 at 10:01 am
You know, I’m kind of sad that I don’t get to have that conversation with my boys, it would make for such great laughs when they’re so young- but hey, there’s hope for a girl yet… (maybe) One of my friends sons went around telling people his sister had a “hairy triangle”…he he hee
May 24th, 2005 at 10:16 am
Hehe, I hope it stays that easy..for us all.
“if I’m the one who wants to educate my kids, then I need to make sure I’m the first one on the job” very well said!!
May 24th, 2005 at 1:46 pm
LOL! My daughter asked me one time “Is that a beard?” I guess that was a hint that I needed to do some trimming!