The Birds and The Bees and 5-Year-Olds
It was a normal day, matchbox cars everywhere, a nice afternoon, and then my 5-year-old son got up to go to the bathroom.
While he was going to the bathroom, he asked me, completely out-of-the-blue,
“Mom, why do girls sit down to go pee-pee?”
By the way, my son closes the bathroom door at friends’ houses, and out in public, but sometimes he ‘forgets’ at home… and I don’t make a big deal about this because I don’t want him to ‘feel embarrassed’ about his body, blah, blah, blah, psycho-babble, blah, blah, blah…
So I very matter-of-factly told him,
“Because girls have vaginas.”
I’ve told him this before, but he forgot, probably because he just doesn’t care that much.
“Faginas?” He asked with a funny look on his face.
“V-aginas.” I answered.
He started laughing,
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