Sunday, April 12, 2009

Uncomfortable questions

3 times during this Easter holiday my daughter, 10 years old, has asked me:
"Mom what does horny mean?"

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! For some reason this word has come up when we have been listening to radio in the car or watching TV shows. And I usually answer questions about sex and "where do babies come from". But this...

I could be truthful and say:
"Horny is the state of mind your mother is in most of the time."
But something tells me that would be a very bad idea.

2 comments:

  1. Lovely!! How innocent ... what a fantastic age that is *smile*

    Reminds me of the time about two yrs ago now ... when the daughter, then aged 9 yrs came to us with a revelation about 'sex' ... she already knew that for a baby to be made the man had to 'put a seed into the woman' -- she also understood what a vagina and a penis was, and had recently learned that testicles were also referred to as ‘nuts’ (from her peers)! Funny story ... only the week or so before this episode she was explaining how one of the boys in her class was accidentally "kicked in the nuts" in the school playground, and while he was wriggling around on the ground, supposedly from the pain in his testicles (???), and she and the other girls “massaged him to make him better”.

    We hurriedly extracted from her that they had massaged his stomach ...*LOL*...

    Anyways, this one Sunday morning she jumps into our bed after waking, to exclaim, very proudly .....

    “Dadda, Dadda ... I know how the man gets the seed into the woman’s tummy!!”

    Mom and I both pricked our ears !!

    “And just how would that be sweetheart?”

    “Well, the 'girls' told me he keeps the seeds in his testicles ... so i reacon he must put his penis close the vagina and then ... and then .... he just does a BIG FART!! ... that’s how the seed gets in !?!”

    You should have heard the howling of laughter that came from our bedroom that morning ... such a classic!!!

    We can’t wait to tell her this story after she grows up!!!

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  2. A big fart! LOL! Well I know some men that would love that idea since farting is what they do best. :)))

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