The awkward questions.
My younger kid is always full for them, for starters:
What is S**?
Me trying to be correct without being candid:
It means-Male or Female, Boy or Girl
My elder daughter, an old soul who knew what made adults uncomfortable and never asked us any of these questions, giggled:
Mamma she wants to know the other meaning, the one which people do……..
I gasped: And just what is that?
I had to confirm what she knew, she’s just turned nine.
Elena: Oh Mamma, of course you know, all parents do….
and she refused to go into explanations
Shaken and determined to continue when Aurora was not around, I change the subject, for the moment.
Princess Aurora, obviously did not stop there.
Another day at the dining table:
Aurora: I will not force my children to eat Sambar.
I at my most formidable: That’s a long time away, please finish yours.
Aurora, determined to change the subject: Why is it a long time away?
I refuse to be distracted: Please take a spoonful, your mouth is empty
Aurora: A five year old girl can get pregnant, you know.
Me finally shocked into forgetting the Sambar: Of course not!!!!!!!! Who told you that?
Aurora putting down her spoon relieved at having Mom on a safer topic:
Oh just some friends, told me that. But I guess they were just fooling me.
Warming on to her subject and discretely pushing her food a little further off
I didn’t believe them and told them you have to be grown up and married to get pregnant
she continues righteously…
A smothered giggle, from my ninety (oops nine) year old…
Trying to keep her parents speechless long enough to flee, the princess climbs down her chair and continues:
But then that means Maami would be pregnant now…
The Ninety (no way can she be nine) year old has had enough:
Oh come on, you can just take Ipill and not get pregnant.
Mamma, this girl really doesn’t know anything!!!!
//I swear I have read a lot of on how to explain facts to your kids, and I was all ready to do it when they entered their teens. But now??
Phew!!
I am not sure what I find more unnerving-Aurora’s questions or Elena’s answers//
