It puts the lotion on it's... fleece?
The problem with nurturing a child's inquisitive nature is that you reach a certain point where you can't get by wiht an easy, or obtuse answer.
We were eating lunch at a burger place in Savannah that happened to have a Gator theme, which of involved the real deal (or a facsimile thereof) mounted on the wall. Only one was a full gator and the other was just the skin. Sebastian wanted to know why they were different, and the only way I could think of to explain it to him in terms of things he already knew was to say that the alligatore had been "peeled".
Cool, right?
Yesterday, when we were driving back from the airport, Sebastian was looking at a photo of himself on a sheepskin. He really would not take any of my roundabout explanations that didn't involve sheep slaughter to finally, I looked at him and said "Sebastian, a sheepskin come from when a sheep gets peeled."
Fearing that I had just broken my kid, I went on to elaborate that when a sheep gets too old to make babies, or milk, that the sheep farmer will turn the sheep into meat and a sheepskin so that nothing from the animal gets wasted, that that's the most respectful thing we can do. I think his confusion came from going to a sheep shearing and seeing the fleeces shaved off the sheep and he needed clarification on the difference... the shaved sheep get to keep their skin, you know?
But yeah, when the local sheep start disappearing and Sebastian starts talking about making a sheep suit, well, I guess I'll have to take the blame.
We were eating lunch at a burger place in Savannah that happened to have a Gator theme, which of involved the real deal (or a facsimile thereof) mounted on the wall. Only one was a full gator and the other was just the skin. Sebastian wanted to know why they were different, and the only way I could think of to explain it to him in terms of things he already knew was to say that the alligatore had been "peeled".
Cool, right?
Yesterday, when we were driving back from the airport, Sebastian was looking at a photo of himself on a sheepskin. He really would not take any of my roundabout explanations that didn't involve sheep slaughter to finally, I looked at him and said "Sebastian, a sheepskin come from when a sheep gets peeled."
Fearing that I had just broken my kid, I went on to elaborate that when a sheep gets too old to make babies, or milk, that the sheep farmer will turn the sheep into meat and a sheepskin so that nothing from the animal gets wasted, that that's the most respectful thing we can do. I think his confusion came from going to a sheep shearing and seeing the fleeces shaved off the sheep and he needed clarification on the difference... the shaved sheep get to keep their skin, you know?
But yeah, when the local sheep start disappearing and Sebastian starts talking about making a sheep suit, well, I guess I'll have to take the blame.