[smudger]

After much of the last 2 weeks spent on the beach (for which I resolutely refuse to bare anything more than my knobbly knees), my daughter is rather obsessed by beach attire. I was getting changed yesterday and she said 'look mummy you look just like the women on the beach" (ie like a bikini).


Then after a short pause: "Except they have straight up and down bodies like me".


Where have the diet books gone to.....

[doganjo]

But Mums are not supposed to be straight up and down.    I think you need to explain about the birds and bees 

[smudger]

She knows there a man/boy bits and women/girls bits and the ewes/goats/hens all get 'kissed' by the boys but as she is 6 that's enough for now. It was't them she was referring to but all the other bumps and lumps...

[plumseverywhere]

haha, bless her! mummy's need some extra bumps and squidgy bellies for that cuddle factor - or as my 8 yr old says "theres just more of you to love, mum" 

[john and helen]

Real men love lumps and bumps, its only these kids with 6 packs that like sticks .... until they start getting lumps and bumps ... 

[HelenVF]

lol, bless her!

Helen

[happygolucky]

  , A few years ago when my grand daughter was 6 my other daughter was heavily pregnant and we said she would soon be giving birth, then my grand daughter looked at me and down and said, well aunty is having a baby but you nana are just fat!!

[Clarebelle]

mt 3 girls love poking and prodding mummy's 'jelly belly' 

[Lesley Silvester]

, A few years ago when my grand daughter was 6 my other daughter was heavily pregnant and we said she would soon be giving birth, then my grand daughter looked at me and down and said, well aunty is having a baby but you nana are just fat!!

Ouch!!!!!!!

[smudger]

The thing with children is they are not deliberately hurtful, they just have to tell the TRUTH.


I have enlarged the text because the 'truth' is usually said in the loudest voice at the most inappropriate time. My daughters 'whisper' would be considered 'normal' decibels for anyone else, whilst 'normal' could fill a theatre.



Of course when it suits their own devious ends of course......lies, fibs, non-truths come more easily.

[happygolucky]

and my horse mad middle daughter cuddled up to  her granddad and said " I love you granddad  because you smell like a Donkey"  we all found that funny as he had an aversion to washing
I have worked with children for years and find them so naturally real,  never forget a boy who wanted to  use the toilet at the nursery but there was someone inside so  he just wee weed up the door!!
 

[Lesley Silvester]

Some years back (but not that many) I was teaching in Sunday School and one of the children asked if they had cannons in the first world war. I didn't know which surprised him. "Weren't you there then?" I was 14 at the time.