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Wednesday, May 18, 2011

After School Special - puberty edition

Our conversation on the walk home from school:

Eric, looking traumatized:  Mom!  We learned about girl-puberty today.  All the boys and girls sat in the same room and watched a video.  *uncomfortable silence*
Me:  And how was it?
Eric:  It was SO disgusting.  There were diagrams of girl privates and they talked about...gross stuff....
Me:  Like periods?
Eric:  UGH!!! Yes. Why?!  I don't need to know about that.
Ethan:  What is a period?
Eric:  NO!  No don't tell him!  You don't want to know?!?!
Ethan:  Yes I do.  What is it?
Me:  Well you know how girls have eggs inside?
Ethan:  *giggles* They DO?!
Me:  *sigh*  Yes, you know that.  Remember?
Ethan:  Oh, yeah...
Me:  So every month when an egg isn't going to be a baby, it gets flushed out along with blood.
Ethan:  Girls poop out eggs?
Me:  Noooo....you know how girls and boys have different parts?  Girls have parts for that sort of thing.
Ethan:  Oh, okay....Hey, look at this cool rock I found.
Eric:  I can't believe they did that to us.
Me:  Did they show boy diagrams?
Eric:  No.  *heavy sigh*  They are making us do that tomorrow.  With girls in the room.
Me:  So what did you think about the information?
Eric:  Nasty barfaroni and cheese!!!!!  I don't need to know all this stuff about crotches!
<pause>
Eric:  I heard "barfaroni and cheese" on Phineas and Ferb.  Hey Ethan, want to play Pirates of the Caribbean Life?  After we have a snack.

And we're back to our regularly scheduled trauma-free program.

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