I just thought it was a quick dinner before t-ball practice. I was in charge of Seb, Sophie and our visiting almost 3 year old. Hot dogs or sausages, plus some crudites was on the menu.
Seb (in his quiet voice): Mum, I saw two people having sex today.
Me: oh... really? [pause] in public?
Seb: Yup, they were kissing with their tongues
Me (quickly and with great relief): ohhhh. they were just kissing. That's not sex. Sex is [can't go back now] when a man and a woman use their penis and vagina; or two penises if they are men [don't take me there today, folks]
Seb: No, Mum. That's making out.
Me (quick, trying not to have a superior smile) : Actually, making out is kissing with tongues. ...[why didn't I stop here?] I should know.
Seb (eyes suddenly goggling at an important revelation)
Me (in a quick, trying to be relaxed voice) : But I am an adult
Seb: So you have kissed Daddy like that
Me: Yup
Seb (with a gleam in his eye that really said "I knew this part already") and you had sex?
Me (with a shrug): Well, we have 2 kids, Seb
Seb smiles and finishes his hot dog. The girls remain oblivious.
Seb (in his quiet voice): Mum, I saw two people having sex today.
Me: oh... really? [pause] in public?
Seb: Yup, they were kissing with their tongues
Me (quickly and with great relief): ohhhh. they were just kissing. That's not sex. Sex is [can't go back now] when a man and a woman use their penis and vagina; or two penises if they are men [don't take me there today, folks]
Seb: No, Mum. That's making out.
Me (quick, trying not to have a superior smile) : Actually, making out is kissing with tongues. ...[why didn't I stop here?] I should know.
Seb (eyes suddenly goggling at an important revelation)
Me (in a quick, trying to be relaxed voice) : But I am an adult
Seb: So you have kissed Daddy like that
Me: Yup
Seb (with a gleam in his eye that really said "I knew this part already") and you had sex?
Me (with a shrug): Well, we have 2 kids, Seb
Seb smiles and finishes his hot dog. The girls remain oblivious.
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I snicker-snorted when I read this. The questions become more complex, as you know. No matter how hip, prepared or sex-positive I would like to think I am, I stumble when Mlle P asks me difficult questions about sex.
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