tyler: michele has a vagina!
me: …
ellie: that’s right, tyler-bear, michele does have a vagina.
me: … !
ellie: we’re learning about penises and vaginas right now.
me: he’s two!
tyler: boys stand up to pee, girls sit down.
me: two!
ellie: babies gone wild!
tyler: babies gone wild!
me: ok, when you say it, pull your shirt up.
ellie: (snort)
me: where’s your belly, kid? show me your belly.
tyler: babies gone wild!
HA ha hahahaha!
You should be giving him beads or t-shirts as rewards when he does it right. If you’re gonna teach the kid self-degradation, at least teach him to expect token rewards in return. 🙂
i started learning about that stuff when i was two also. not, admittedly, your specific vagina, michele. no, that lesson came much much later.
…ah, memories.
i started learning that i had a vagina and adam had a penis earlier even since we had to share bathtubs all the time. but it’s still disconcerting to have a 2 year old point to your genitals and proclaim them female.
but also kind of reassuring, right?
I’ve always planned on teaching my children the wrong words for things, like calling cats dogs and vice versa. I guess “penis” and “vagina” would be good for that.
Oh, wow. Someday a Holohan son is going to tell some unsuspecting woman that he wants to stick his vagina in her penis.
Speaking strictly as an anthropologist, I’d love to have a video camera around when that happens.
just so you know, the babies gone wild thing is really catching on. today in our mock-preschool class, tyler took another boy into the corner, said “go wild” and showed this unsuspecting boy his tummy. poor boy. i am sure by next week we will have the whole class doing it. kudos michele, on the amazing idea.
please, please tell me you’re not kidding. did he also say to this boy, ‘you have a penis.’?
unfortunately there was no penis conversation, but some blonde tartlet at the play-doh table threw some beads at the boys…oh her mother was mortified!
i like play-doh.