About a week ago, Rebecca went shopping at a thrift store with the girls. Her primary purpose was to find straw hats for making bonnets. These bonnets will be used in This is Kirtland play. While there, the girls saw many items that they thought they needed, such as purses, swim suits, pants, shoes, stuffed animals, etc., and they negotiated and pleaded with their mother and managed to convince her to purchase them.
Abby saw a pregnant woman, and then said, "Mommy, I want a baby in my tummy." Rebecca told her that she was too little, and even if Abby could have a baby now, Mommy would not let her get one. Abby then pleaded, "Please, Mommy, please" using the same tone she uses when begging for candy or to sit on the couch and watch a video. Rebecca and Abby continued to negotiate until some other item of interest caught the 2-yr-old's attention.
A couple of days later, Rebecca was with Abby in the bathroom trying to get Abby to use the toilet. Abby said that she wanted to go pee standing up. Between observations of Sam and I using the toilet, she knew that such a thing was possible. Rebecca told her that because Abby did not have a penis, it would be very difficult for her to pee standing up. Abby said, "I want one of those." Rebecca then explained that Abby could not have a penis because she is a girl. Undeterred, Abby insisted that she get one and refused to sit on the toilet and urinate. Rebecca then said, "Instead of a penis, girls have a vagina and uterus so they can have babies." Abby considered this for a moment, said, "OK," and proceeded with her business sitting down.
When Rebecca related these incidents to me, I realized that Abby would be our only child that doesn't automatically get the "where do baby's come from" talk because it is very unlikely that Rebecca will ever be pregnant again. This past May, I have delivered over 25 presentations on this topic and puberty to about 2,000 5th and 6th grade students, but I have yet to do so with my 2-yr-old. I did take the youngest three with me to do parent presentation on what I was going to tell their kids, but Abby slept through most of it. Emma and Sam only talked about the pretzels and playground after sitting through my presentation on puberty.
1 comment:
Yeah. I remember several little girls I knew trying to pee standing ON the toilet, since standing in front of it never worked. Maybe I was one of those little girls... Anyway, love this story!
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