Call a thing by its name
Posted on July 2, 2009 - Filed Under The Daily Doodle, Parenting
The context:
We were getting ready to head into town to visit the local municipal swimming pool. Maggie was in the process of changing into her bathing suit. As she is prone to do, she was running around naked and dancing. I had her bathing suit, which she needed a little help getting into.
The dialogue:
Daddy: Maggie, come over here and get your bathing suit on.
Maggie comes over and faces me.
Maggie: I got a pee-pee.
Daddy: Yeah? Do you know what your pee-pee is called?
Maggie nods her head yes, as she normally does even though she doesn’t know the answer to the question.
Daddy: What is it called?
Maggie: I don’t know.
Daddy: Your pee-pee is called a vagina.
Maggie: A bagina?
Daddy: Yeah, a vagina.
Maggie: What is your pee-pee called?
Daddy: A penis.
Maggie: Penis? That’s a silly name for a pee-pee.
Oh, the things children say.
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