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Over breakfast - before school (therefore before seven in the morning)
Kelia: Mommy, how old do you have to be to have a baby?
M: Well, that depends on when you start your period.
K: What’s a period?
M: It’s when you menstruate. About once a month your body gets ready for a baby. The walls of your uterus build up and if you don’t get pregnant, then the extra tissue sloughs off and you bleed some.
K: You bleed?
M: Yeah, remember, that’s why I have those tampons?
K: Oh yeah.
Brenna: But how old do you have to be?
M: That depends on the person. Some people start at ten or twelve and some people start at 15 or 16. Everybody’s different, but just because your body’s ready doesn’t mean that you should have a baby. You’re body’s not really ready for it until it stops growing. You should really wait until you’re in your twenties.
Aine: Twenties?
K: Well, because, if you were in High School, you couldn’t bring your baby to class with you.
M: Right. And babies are a lot of work, so you should wait until you’re married and you have someone to help you.
A: Wait till you’re married?
M: Well, you have to have sex to have a baby and you should wait until you’re in love and you’re married before you do that.
Aine (with arms in the air): Yea, Mommy’s been sexed up!
M: What?
A: It means you got sexed up!
M: Well, yes, at least three times. (Daddy walks in) And it’s all his fault.
A: No it isn’t! It’s our fault, because we just came popping out all over like Larry! (Which is, of course a reference to the Teen Titan episode ‘Fractured’ with the alternate universe Robin, Gosyarg Kicd, aka Larry - somehow the comparison seems amazingly apt.)
Later that some morning:
Brenna: (Reading a Book Club flyer) Ooohhh, look Mom, there’s a book on serial killers. I want to read that! It’s like Simon on Case Closed!
Of course we had a discussion about how murdering a lot of people was not the same thing as being a serial killer, and then we headed out for the bus. Not that I wasn’t watching Mystery! (hosted by Vincent Price) at an earlier age.
I guess they really are our children.
Kelia: Mommy, how old do you have to be to have a baby?
M: Well, that depends on when you start your period.
K: What’s a period?
M: It’s when you menstruate. About once a month your body gets ready for a baby. The walls of your uterus build up and if you don’t get pregnant, then the extra tissue sloughs off and you bleed some.
K: You bleed?
M: Yeah, remember, that’s why I have those tampons?
K: Oh yeah.
Brenna: But how old do you have to be?
M: That depends on the person. Some people start at ten or twelve and some people start at 15 or 16. Everybody’s different, but just because your body’s ready doesn’t mean that you should have a baby. You’re body’s not really ready for it until it stops growing. You should really wait until you’re in your twenties.
Aine: Twenties?
K: Well, because, if you were in High School, you couldn’t bring your baby to class with you.
M: Right. And babies are a lot of work, so you should wait until you’re married and you have someone to help you.
A: Wait till you’re married?
M: Well, you have to have sex to have a baby and you should wait until you’re in love and you’re married before you do that.
Aine (with arms in the air): Yea, Mommy’s been sexed up!
M: What?
A: It means you got sexed up!
M: Well, yes, at least three times. (Daddy walks in) And it’s all his fault.
A: No it isn’t! It’s our fault, because we just came popping out all over like Larry! (Which is, of course a reference to the Teen Titan episode ‘Fractured’ with the alternate universe Robin, Gosyarg Kicd, aka Larry - somehow the comparison seems amazingly apt.)
Later that some morning:
Brenna: (Reading a Book Club flyer) Ooohhh, look Mom, there’s a book on serial killers. I want to read that! It’s like Simon on Case Closed!
Of course we had a discussion about how murdering a lot of people was not the same thing as being a serial killer, and then we headed out for the bus. Not that I wasn’t watching Mystery! (hosted by Vincent Price) at an earlier age.
I guess they really are our children.