Innocence in awareness

At some point in time, my girls have realized that there does exist a difference between girls and boys and boys have something which they don't and with that thing they can pee standing up. So for my older one, I did a little bit of elementary awareness about body parts.Of course, my younger one has the attention span of a bouncing Tigger and had run away mid-discourse. Well, in Dutch Pim-mel is the name for it, and they sometimes repeat the name, I don't know for what reason - the sound of it, or the iniquitous habit of  children of repeating words they ought not to. This is followed by my lecture on how you don't speak these things loud, and especially in company.

Which did not stop my little one from going to the only boy in the house and telling him - you have one. He took it pretty stoically, no splutter in tea-cup and disengaged and distracted from a conversation which could've taken heaven-knows-what turns by pointing to 3 visiting parrots outside the window.

But you know what, I don't think the lesson has sunk in, not fully. My little one was playing with her baby, a boy-doll in all his glory, who somehow survives the cold weather here. And I decided to test her by asking if it is a boy baby or a girl? Boy, she answered, in a matter-of-fact tone. How can you say that, I asked? Oh ho, Mama, he has short hair, he is a boy. Innocence, more lessons and some more gender-stereotypes to bust. I can see my work cut out.

Comments

  1. Aparna3 January 2013 at 08:42

    It does take them time to work it out. I guess Big G may have caught on and LiL G will take a year or two more.

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  2. Chatty Wren3 January 2013 at 09:28

    I think so, too! Keeping fingers crossed.

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  3. Unknown4 January 2013 at 06:54

    hahhahaha!!! Kids are always fascinated with the extra appendage!! :P

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  4. Anonymous8 January 2013 at 13:16

    :)I have been trying to tell Zini about private parts of the body, but the tigger effect at work here too....

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  5. Chatty Wren8 January 2013 at 14:06

    Hmm, keep trying, it will sink in someday:)

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  6. Bikram8 January 2013 at 17:14

    well its only the kids these days left with innocense otherwise everyone else is damn clever , god bless them

    Bikram's

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    1. Chatty Wren9 January 2013 at 11:06

      Yes, thanks Bikramjit, hopefully they remain that way.

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