Wednesday, June 17, 2009

birds, bees, and anatomy according to a three year old.

M2 is quite interested in anatomy and the mechanics of bearing children and nursing and things like that at the moment, and we've had some pretty funny conversations about it all. A few weeks ago at lunch she told me that on her next birthday she's going to wish for a baby, and maybe she'll get one in her tummy. Maybe, I said. It's worth a shot. (I figured it wasn't the time to tell her what my grandma says about wishing in one hand and spitting in the other). Today as I was getting her dressed she shared her (apparently new) insight that when she's a mommy she'll "have a bigger chest, but when M1 is a daddy, she won't."

Rather than straightening her out on that, I took the easier and safer route of changing the topic and teaching her that you can start fires in the sun with a magnifying glass.


(don't worry, she's not coordinated enough, and yes, I gave her the talk about only doing it outside on the pavement with nothing around). Never to early to make a girl a scout, I say.

7 comments:

  1. It seems to me that you will be leaving with flare rather than flair if you keep teaching those types of activities. Perhaps M2 will move along to some other activity and forget she learned that little tidbit of information. Hmmm, what was that comment about wishing in one hand....

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  2. nah, she can't manage it on her own. And even if she did--we live in a cement house. She can't burn it down.

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  3. Maybe not the house, but her homework, or the kitchen table cloth, or ???

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  4. she's 3! no homework to burn down either!

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  5. Maybe her coloring book?

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  6. The correct answer to those lines of questioning is "Thanks to the wonders of modern medicine..."

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  7. I don't get it. What does modern medicine have to do with those lines of questioning?

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