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[beetiger]

I figure every parent of a kid in the "why" stage gets tough questions sometimes. The funny part is when you get questions that a more mainstream parent wouldn't think are complicated, but to you they are.

Today's entry? "Mommy, can a boy grow up to be a woman?"

(my answer, after a moment of internal boggle: "That's not the usual way it happens." Which seemed to satisfy him for the moment.)

Comments

[onecrazymother.livejournal.com]

We had a confluence of conversations that made me realize that boys grow up to be women much more often than they grow up to be astronauts.

"You can be anything you want to be, hon."

[e-phemera.livejournal.com]

Oh, that is so perfect!

[ladyperegrine.livejournal.com]

This comment caught my eye, so I started reading your journal and ended up friending you.

Umm, hi. :-)

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you guys would like each other. :)

hi!

[onecrazymother.livejournal.com]

and lo, I have added you, which means you can read the other 99% of my journal now...for better and for worse :)