M reads a lot. A lot of the books at her reading level are a bit ahead of her chronological age/knowledge, so we get a lot of questions to help her clarify what she is reading. For example, yesterday she asked me “What does ‘tan their jackets’ mean?” She was reading a Little House on the Prairie book and apparently it was a reference to whipping children that sailed right over her head.
Today, I didn’t immediately know what she had been reading when she asked “What are warts?”
I gave a brief and neutral explanation.
“Are warts good or bad?” she asked.
Not wanting to feed into the wart-discrimination campaign, I said “Warts aren’t good or bad, they are just a bump on your skin.”
“I know a kind of warts that are bad,” M said.
“What kind of warts are bad?”
M snickered and replied “GENITAL WARTS!!!”
She has apparently been reading my autographed copy of It’s Perfectly Normal, because we loaned out our copy of the more age-appropriate It’s Not the Stork.
Knowledgeable about sexually transmitted diseases at age six? That’s my girl.
maybe i’ll just let M teach fisher all this stuff.
That conversation must have been quite interesting! Miss M is “Mahvelously” Smart indeed
. Kelvin, on the other hand… is not interested in such subjects at all… sigh.
*lmao* early readers can throw us into some awkward moments. M was reading the graffiti in the bathroom stall at the mall and cracking up. Until I heard “MOM! why would someone want to eat a p*ssy?” The lady waiting in line with me almost died. I said “Some people eat cats. I don’t like cat meat though.” a little voice just said “ummmm ok? why would they write that on the wall?”
Wow! lol…hey, at least she is reading…
See, now this is why it was good to wait, because we only have It’s So Amazing! No genital warts in that one. Hee.
Wait to buy that series of books, I mean. That “wait” was a little vague, in context.
It wasn’t planned waiting, either — I was just absent-minded about buying that particular type of book.
ha!
Bwahaha.
I’ve just been reading my daughter that Little House book and had to explain about tanning jackets, too. Um, some parents spank their kids. Okay, well, spanking is when the mom or dad hits the kid on the bottom. Yes, it is supposed to hurt. We don’t do that in our house, because we don’t hit or hurt each other, but some parents do. Yes, so the kid stops being bad. We don’t think that works very well.
My daughter’s response: “Yeah, we just yell at our kids.” Oh. Yeah. Right.
In the sauna at our neighborhood clubhouse, someone was kind enough to write “Dank Weed” on the ceiling. The kids ask what that means and I just keep insisting that I don’t know.
hehehehe. That’s how I learned about sex,drugs and rock and roll,not by partying but from reading. Thanks mom and dad! Just make sure M doesn’t get a copy of The Catcher in the Rye then you’re in trouble.