Things My Kids Say

I am writing this knowingly that there are some other Mom's to boys out there that at some point have this talk when they are young.

I have vowed to always be honest with my kids. No matter what they ask me, I am going to be honest. Whether I need to explain it in a child-like understanding way, it will still be the truth. I ask them to be honest, so why wouldn't I do the same for them?

The "talk" I am speaking of is why boys are called boys and girls are called girls.

Here are a few misconceptions I have had to clear up:

B, my 4 year old, says, "Girls have pee-pees too."
I respond, "No we do not have pee-pee's we have Vagina's." (Which I have already explained in the past is where babies are born from).
Response: "BAGINAS!!??" With a puzzled look. Then it was left alone for awhile.

B walked in on me one day while I was going to the bathroom. As I yelled "Privacy!" he looked at me funny then walked out.
 After I got out of the bathroom he asks, "If you don't have a pee-pee how do you go potty?"
I explained that he goes potty out of his pee-pee, and I do the same just out of my vagina (just keeping it child-like on the explaining here). He leaves it alone.

While traveling with my Dad, B busts out and says "Papa, did you know that girls don't have pee-pees?!" My Dad just looked at me and says, "Rrreeaallyy?"
And then I hear my oldest talking all low and snickering as he says, "Ya, Mama poops and pees out of  her BUTT!"
Me, " Uhhh...not true!" But it was funny that he thought he was making a joke out of it....more childlike explanations were in store on this one.

Then, over the weekend B asks me, "If you punch your pee-pee too much will you turn into a girl?" I might add, that he is 4 and asks this VERY seriously. I say, "Well, you may hurt it instead. But (jokingly say) you might turn into a girl :)."

His response," Is that what happened to you?"