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Thought we could do with a light-hearted thread. My mom sent the following video to me after my 3.5 year old son started asking me some questions about the differences between boys and girls a few months ago.
Disclaimer: This is intended to be funny, but may require a slightly twisted sense of humor. NSFW or for watching around young children (unless you are looking to have a detailed conversation with them about sex and weren't sure how to broach the topic. ) Sweeney actually had me crying laughing the first time I watched this, at the way an innocent conversation about frogs could spark a detailed discussion about human sexuality and how even when we are prepared to have these talks with our kids, they may still take us slightly by surprise.
After a bunch of little kids see two dogs "doing it" on the street.
"The dog is tired so the other dog is helping by pushing her home."
While we were potty training, DS became quite adamant that I should stand up to potty, just like he and daddy do. It took a few repetitions of explaining I don't have the required anatomy for that before he was ok with pottying being different for boys and girls. I hadn't counted on his being so insistent and having a "why" for every answer!
I confess I had seen this already, but the line where she describes the amusement park next to waste management made me laugh out loud all over again.
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Originally Posted by Zimbochick
That's great, full of real gems. My fave:
"It's like having a waste treatment plant right next to an amusement park, terrible zoning.."
I think every parents dreads the "Do you do that too?" question.
Haha, great minds! I think I may have posted it on one of the defunct chat threads once upon a time, but thought it could stand to be revived.
The thing that resonated so much for me was her description of considering herself to be an enlightened, matter-of-fact kind of parent, and yet she still found her brain scrambling all over the place in the moment trying to find "the right thing" to say. I loved the part where she found her gaze darting around and she focused on her daughter with an intensity that would have scared the devil.
When I was pregnant with my second, my 5 yo nephew was asking all kinds of questions about the baby, and I was feeling all proud of myself for answering in a truthful, age-appropriate way consistent with what his parents had taught him. So after we ran through questions like "What does the baby eat? How does she eat? Does she have toys to play with in there? Is THAT how I got a belly button?," he hits me with "How does the baby come out?," at which point I had a brief deer-in-headlights moment when I realized I had NO idea what his parents wanted him to know on this score.
Quickly regrouping, I suggested we ask his mom. The answer, it turns out, is that the doctor takes the baby out at the hospital. So he turns to me and very sincerely asks, "Aunt Ewag, after you go to the hospital and the doctor takes the baby out, can you remember to tell me how he did it?" Sure, buddy, you got it.
When I was little, my dad's younger brother still lived at home with my grandparents. I'm told that we had the following conversation when I was three or so:
Julia: Uncle, do you take a shower?
Uncle: Yes.
Julia: Do you have a bottom?
Uncle: Uh, yes.
Julia: What else do you have?
I don't know how he answered because the story stops there. It amuses my grandfather to no end. I do remember being about five and asking him to marry me when I got older.
When my son was very small he asked my mother how he got his belly-button. She poked him in the belly and said, "Before you are born, God checks all the babies and says "You're done!" (poke) "And you're done!" (poke) "And you're done!" (poke).
(We didn't come via the stork, BTW. We were found under a cabbage leaf.)
Haha, great minds! I think I may have posted it on one of the defunct chat threads once upon a time, but thought it could stand to be revived.
The thing that resonated so much for me was her description of considering herself to be an enlightened, matter-of-fact kind of parent, and yet she still found her brain scrambling all over the place in the moment trying to find "the right thing" to say. I loved the part where she found her gaze darting around and she focused on her daughter with an intensity that would have scared the devil.
When I was pregnant with my second, my 5 yo nephew was asking all kinds of questions about the baby, and I was feeling all proud of myself for answering in a truthful, age-appropriate way consistent with what his parents had taught him. So after we ran through questions like "What does the baby eat? How does she eat? Does she have toys to play with in there? Is THAT how I got a belly button?," he hits me with "How does the baby come out?," at which point I had a brief deer-in-headlights moment when I realized I had NO idea what his parents wanted him to know on this score.
Quickly regrouping, I suggested we ask his mom. The answer, it turns out, is that the doctor takes the baby out at the hospital. So he turns to me and very sincerely asks, "Aunt Ewag, after you go to the hospital and the doctor takes the baby out, can you remember to tell me how he did it?" Sure, buddy, you got it.
Having had 2 c-sections, I've always been able to truthfully say "the doctor cut a hole in my tummy."
A couple weeks ago, 8 started asking hubby questions, so I bought a book and hubby went over it with him at bed time. The next night it was my turn to read at bed time. He got the book out and flipped to the page with the cartoon drawing of the baby in the mommy's tummy and told me it takes a mommy and a daddy, and asked me if I knew how it worked.
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) Sweeney actually had me crying laughing the first time I watched this, at the way an innocent conversation about frogs could spark a detailed discussion about human sexuality and how even when we are prepared to have these talks with our kids, they may still take us slightly by surprise. 
I think I may have posted it on one of the defunct chat threads once upon a time, but thought it could stand to be revived.
