Conversations with Brinley
Yesterday Brinley asked me a question that I had a really hard time answering. It’s not that I couldn’t think of an answer, it’s that the answers that I gave her were not satisfying her. I’m not sure where kids come up with these things.
She asked me, in the sweetest way, “Mommy, when you were a little girl, where was I?”
At first I didn’t think much of it, and I just said, “You weren’t born yet.”
Well apparently that was not good enough. She asked, “Well where was I? Was I in your bellly?”
I said no and that she just wasn’t born yet, not even though of yet, when I was a little girl. But still, she wasn’t happy with that answer. She continued to ask where she was and then began rattling off some ideas of her own…
“Was I in daddy’s belly? How about Mimi’s? Or maybe I was still in the hospital? Was I your mommy when you were a little girl?”
No matter what I said to her, I couldn’t satisfy her curiosity. I guess the only real way to answer it would be to explain the birds and the bees to her and I am totally NOT ready for that!
about 1 year ago
Even if you did explain “the birds and the bees” she still would probably not see how that relates to where she was when you were little. My neighbor has a daughter who was a total “why?” kid. The only answer they could give that would ever satisfy her was “Because molecular structure deems it so”. Kids are funny!
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