Tainted so young:
A new friend is A—, another of Boo’s 4-year old buddies. Boo and A— were swinging on the saucer
together with another older kid. I was pushing, and so, of course, they
ignored me entirely. (I love when toddlers treat me like a fly on the
wall, even though I’m most of six feet tall and twelve stone.)
Anyway, with me basically invisible, the two older girls
whispered, laughed uproariously, and then looked guiltily around,
finally noticing me there. I betrayed no reaction, so they raised their
voices for me to hear the naughty things they were saying.
“I’m going to take Cinderella and put her in my mouth!” they started. Oh, lord, I thought. Where is this going?
I was right to worry. “I’m going to put Cinderella in my
pee-pee!” shouted the other girl, Boobaby looking on curiously. “I’m
going to put her in my butt!” was the next escalation. Boo laughed a
lot at that. Yikes, I thought.
Imagine Doodaddy trying to choose the right words to shut this
down but in a non-punitive, cool-parent way. While I was considering,
because everyone knows all the right terms these days, the first girl
finished off the cycle: “I’m going to put Cinderella in my penis!”
Now, if these girls had been sitting off somewhere giggling and I wasn’t meant to hear, I wouldn’t have intervened...
Read the rest.UPDATE: As is noted in the comments, somehow I have mistaken Barbie and Cinderella. Who can tell those big-chested blondes apart, I ask you?
