it’s funny when anyone cracks themselves up.

I’ll come out with it if someone guesses..then it’s not just me saying it.

I think it’s funny when you crack yourself up. hahahah!

I don’t have children, which may explain part of my obtuseness, but when I was 19 and giving my four-year-old brother a bath he started saying silly things about “balls” in a way that suggested to me he didn’t know what “balls” meant exactly. So I explained about testicles, gave him the correct vocabulary, and told him that when he got big they would make seeds to grow a baby.

I didn’t ignore him (in his four-year-old way he was asking a question) and I didn’t pretend that his friends in daycare were talking about basketball.

I don’t think I was being inappropriate or teaching him to use inappropriate vocabulary.

Chinese year of the Cock: _____ ____ ___ ____!

4 words -16 letter.

I did it with both sons… although.. older son was getting up at 4:30 and watching the *ADULT HBO* movies unbeknownst to me…when he was SEVEN. It turned out that we were getting free HBO because of whatever the cable co was working on. I periodically called them asking them to please remove it because I didn’t want those influences in the house with kids around. They couldn’t do it.

And when younger son was 7..someone shoved a very explicit porn order magazine..along with advertisements for extenders, etc., in his friend’s mailbox. And you just know all that stayed with them. I think that is sad. I am glad i wasn’t exposed to all that until much older..okay..there was the pervy neighbor.

They were 7 when they watched the sex ed videos at home (geared for their age) and we read the book together. And like you.. we used the correct anatomic descriptions. never had a nick name for anything… until whizzie winkles.

Children today are over saturated with sexual images, violent news… pick your poison… exposed to things they don’t yet have the maturity to process appropriately. Heck..there are things in the media that have burned my eyes and ears out that I wish I never had exposure too.

Funny story what promped me to teach 1st born son about sex when he was 7. I was 7 mos pregnant and I was driving him, my m-i-l, son and a 5 yr old girl down to the mall to see Roger Rabbit… when older son from the backseat blurts out, “Mommy… I want to know exactly WHERE babies come from!” and I managed to redirect, went to the library the next day and then… it ended up being more than he wanted to know! I believe “EWWWWW” was his response.