Try as I may, there are some things
that I cannot answer…correctly. I consider myself an educated person, interact
on a daily basis with educated people, and spend much of my time at work
researching things such as “Ligers” (google it, you’ll be hooked) and when to use “Who” or “Whom.” There are a
few things in life that stump me though, and the majority of those few things are questions from the
curious mind of my 3 year old. Yes, I realize that all kids ask “why” all of
the time, but I really do try to give the correct answers to him, and because
of this Benji seems able to think and reason at the level of a certified
genius. Some of the questions are simple…and some, not so much…
Saturday at the
grocery store…
Ben: I gotta go potty.
Me: Okay, I do too,
let’s go.
Ben: Wanna play
swords?
Me: Umm…NO.
Ben: Why?
Me: Umm…let’s just go
potty.
How do you answer that
in public and why do little boys think that playing “swords” in the bathroom is
the coolest thing in the world?
A few weeks ago, Ben
in the bathroom at our house…
Ben: I pooped!
Me: Did you wipe?
Ben: No.
Me: You need to go
back in to the bathroom and wipe.
Ben: Why?
Me: So your butt doesn’t
itch.
And…
An ongoing battle…
Me: Ben, take your
fingers out of your mouth.
Ben: Why?
Me: So you don’t get
worms
Ben: Why?
Me: They’ll make your
butt itch.
Ben: Why?
Me: I don’t know, just
stop chewing on your fingers.
So, in life, I’ve
found that there are some really great answers to some really great questions,
and then there are the questions that seem so simple, but we have no idea how
to answer them. My poor child is going to grow up believing that chewing on his
fingernails will give him worms (which is what my childhood babysitter used to
tell us…thanks Sharon), simply because I can’t explain germs to him because he
can’t physically see them. It’s funny to me that the older my children get, the
dumber I feel!