I have two younger sisters born seventeen months apart. I was about eight when Connie came along. Mother had told us she was expecting, but since I wasn’t interested in babies, I quickly put it out of my mind, not think thinking much more about it. I even socked one of my cousins for saying my mother was pregnant. I thought it was an insult like “trashy” or “low class.” I was shamed to no end when my aunt confirmed that my mother was indeed “pregnant” and the word meant “expecting.” Not only was Mother “pregnant!” She’d put me in a position to humiliate myself.
I found Connie very cute and entertaining once she got old enough to play. Always happy to play with her, I’d forsake her as soon as she cried or needed a diaper. Phyllis was a “little mother” and could care for Connie as well as Mother. When Connie was a year old, Mother and Daddy announced a second baby was en route. By now, I’d picked up a little misinformation and knew baby production involved the two of them. They’d “done it” though what “it” involved was very foggy. They’d alway said if I had any questions, come to them, so one day when Mother had her friends over for coffee, I asked if they’d had to do “it” more than five times to get five children. This clearly wasn’t the type question she meant. I guess questions about Sunday School were more to her taste. She invited me to mind my own business and not ask any more questions.
Thanks so much.
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HaHa! I loved the fact that you chose your moment to ask that question, and I loved your mum’s response even more! 🙂
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She hated my timing,
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Good Morning, the comment above by Cordelia’s Mom triggered a school nurse memory, and inspired my post today. Thanks for that. ☺ The School Nurse Crisis.
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You are welcome. Headed there now.
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Thanks for linking
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Children are very innocent and they see the world as it is presented to them with little of childish fantasies..
I was raised from my older sisters (meaning I could ask them anything before asking my mom), so I was always ahead and well informed about many things including how babies are made. However not everyone around me knew those things.. once I remember me and my cousin met a pregnant woman and I asked her “do you know how babies are made?” -she said yes “you just have to eat a lot of beans and you tommy grows, and one of the beans inside is converted to a mall baby” – ahahaha I still laugh with this 🙂
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Did you ever hear swallowed a watermelon.
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ahhahahahahahha nope, but it sounds funny too 🙂
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And another time, my daughter with her friends was playing “families” by designating one student as “father”, one as “mother” and so on and an “over-zealous” teacher sent a note to us and called us to school to meet her and reprimand us. My daughter was 6 at the time.
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She was full of herself.
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LOL! Too, too funny Beth! Be careful of the questions you ask! ~Elle
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I guess.
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Oh my. Straight forward question… Innocent. And yet adults freak out…
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I always managed good questions!
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🙂
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That was a smart question on your part!
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My timing was off.
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It’s all in the timing! Chuckle.
Leslie
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I once got called to the school because my daughter, who was in either kindergarten or first grade, had drawn a picture of what was supposed to be a woman. There was crayon marking just above a very private area. The teacher thought my kid had at some point viewed porn, or witnessed some activity not appropriate for a child. So I asked my kid what she was trying do draw. I was pregnant at the time, and she was trying to draw an image of a new baby fluttering or kicking in the mommy’s tummy. I had let her feel the baby kicking and explained to her that it was her new baby brother or sister.
It was a very innocent drawing, but had been viewed in the wrong way by an overly zealous teacher.
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OH, boy. Sometimes they try too hard.
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Good grief. So what if she’d drawn pubic hair, or a vagina? So what if you walked around naked at home after a shower? I could see a bit of interest had it been your son. Even then, why assume porn? My boys grew up with a great kids’ book about sex, with paper cutout illustrations. Plenty of pics of privates of both genders. oooOOOooo!!!
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The School Nurse Crisis | vanbytheriver. Just wanted you to know…your comment inspired my post this a.m. Thanks, CM ☺
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Oh thank you. I loved it.
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Isn’t it funny where our writing inspiration comes from ?? How often, a post or a simple comment triggers a vivid memory. Thanks to you, Linda, and Cordelia’s Mom ❤️
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Thank you.
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So welcome. ❤️
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