My sons interrogate visitors mercilessly in their quest for knowledge about them. My friend, Keith, was their latest victim. Keith was doing some carpentry work for us a couple of weeks ago, and Ezra (5 years old) was hanging around asking him a bunch of questions. Keith later recounted some of the highlights from his conversations with Ezra...
Wanting to make sure Keith understood gender as clearly as he did, Ezra explained to him that only boys have p3nis's.
"Girls have something else," he continued.
"I know because I've seen my mom naked..."
"It looks like this..." (makes some sort of hand gesture)
"But I forget what it's called..."
No doubt, this conversation had to be making poor Keith uncomfortable.
But the most invasive question came when Ezra asked, "Do you get disappointed when you see other people's p3nis's?"
Keith struggled to keep from laughing, carefully explained that no, he did not, and then quickly changed the subject.
I don't know what the boy was thinking... My best guess is that he developed this assumption because of a conversation he and I had had about why we can't be naked in the front yard. I think I explained our need for clothes like, "Well, nobody wants to see you naked. That's why we wear clothes. They don't want to see it." So I guess he took that and assumed that people must get disappointed when they see you naked? I don't know...
