» The Birds and The Bees talk http://bananablueberry.com Mon, 02 Jul 2018 22:07:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 The Birds and The Bees and 5-Year-Olds http://bananablueberry.com/index.php/2009/05/the-birds-and-the-bees-and-5-year-olds/ http://bananablueberry.com/index.php/2009/05/the-birds-and-the-bees-and-5-year-olds/#comments Mon, 04 May 2009 13:59:42 +0000 http://bananablueberry.com/?p=561       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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