Posted by 10derHeart on December 10, 2005, at 14:27:35
In reply to Re: two funny stories on this subject to share ..., posted by annierose on December 9, 2005, at 20:59:39
lol...those were great!
I have one - *warning* starts funny, gets a little sad/bad...
when my daughter was four, she came down with chicken pox (thoughtfully gave them to ME, too...you DON'T want them as an adult....'nother story there...) while we happened to be temporarily staying with my inlaws. She had a mild case, with maybe 10-15 pox over her entire body, and was still feeling okay-enough to be up and playing. So, with my MIL, FIL, husband and a neighbor couple we'd just met in the living room, my little one says in her loudest voice, "Hey, know what? Know what?" At which, of course some adult asks, "what, honey?"
Daughter: "I have one chicken pox on my vagina!"
Uh-huh. Thanks for that bit of info, dear.
Wish I would've more correctly taught her vulva, because I'll bet I would have gotten several blank stares. Many adults really don't know the correct words, I've learned over the years.
Well, I'm pretty sure I laughed it off. At the most, I might have briefly told her (away from other people) that she might not want to tell things about private parts in front of the neighbors, but that she'd done *nothing* bad.
As it was (not so nice part coming up...), my MIL cornered me in the kitchen a short while later and proceeded to lecture me on how my daughter didn't need to know "words like that," and that if I wanted, she could tell me some "kiddie" words (or something) I could use instead. When I tried to explain I'd purposely taught her the actual terms and why, my MIL said that was "disgusting" and I was "corrupting" her! okay then. Thanks for the support, MIL (who was a retired nurse!!!)
And later...hubby took her side completely and said my teaching these words made my child appear to be "dirty" and embarrassed him in front of his parents' friends (!!!) :-(
Talk about a family with some shame issues - yes - later discovered all kinds of not-nice problems with various kinds of abuse within his family. (Long story, but this reaction did make a bit more sense then.)
But, as for the original comment by a 4-year old, well, excuuuuse me, I thought it was cute, really :-)
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