This past summer 3-year-old Bella panicked when her mother mentioned that Daddy was on his way home for dinner. "Oh, no!" Bella gasped, "I have to put on my underpants!" My daughter had been trying to get Bella potty-trained, but the child kept having mistakes, so she often ended up without underpants. What was the big deal? "Daddy said he doesn't want to see my china! I have to put my underpants on!" "He doesn't want to what?", asked her mother. "He doesn't want to see my CHINA!" Bella exclaimed. Then Mommy got it -- "Ohhhh! You mean your vagina? "Yes! Daddy said he doesn't want to see my china!"
Later my daughter asked her husband if he had actually told Bella he didn't want to see her vagina. No, he had told her he didn't want to see her running around without her underpants. She drew her own conclusion, and that's what comes from teaching children the correct name for their body parts!
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