Dd teaching sex ed to the neighbor kids

[incorrigible]

I'm putting this in here because there's a whole single mom aspect to this, too, and this is the kind of thing all kids do...regardless of category. lol

I'm hoping this is a laughing matter, but I'm waiting for the call back to see how the other parent takes it. My landlord came by earlier with a friend to pull something out of the barn. His family uses it as a giant storage unit. The friend had his daughter with, about my dd's age. They immediately skipped off to play. Dd told me what they'd talked about after they left. The other little girl is very urban, only seen a chicken once in her life. So, dd took her to see our birds and check the nesting boxes. There was an egg. The other little girl said something about it not being the kind you eat because there's a baby chicken in it. We don't have roosters, and it was JUST laid. Dd launched into an explanation.

*Can I just aside here and beam at my dd and her complete mastery of the terms and concepts on this. I was dead stunned at her explanation. I didn't understand fertility that well until I was at least a teen...maybe not till adulthood...in fact, I don't think I'd explain it as well NOW!*

Dd was so thorough that I felt it would be a good idea to give the dad a heads up. He's a friend of friends and the impression I've gotten is he's the type that would want to know and be involved in his child's discovery of these concepts. He'll be calling me back in a little bit. I don't expect it to be a big deal, but we'll see. He just moved in literally across the street from us and dd would like to befriend his daughter. This is the testing point I think, to find out up front if he'll consider our family to "weird" to hang out with, or really love the freedom and generally enriching home we have going. It's almost always one or the other.

He's ALSO the really cute super awesome single dad that works with my sister and is friends with lots of my friends...that I keep trying to get people to give my number to 'cause I never manage to see him, myself, outside of stopping by sis's work. But no one ever does. lol Hopefully this will be an icebreaker kind of situation? *fingers crossed*

[RollerCoasterMama]

Rumor has it that I educated my whole kindergarten class similarly. (I'd just had a baby sister the previous year.) :P

[incorrigible]

He thought it was cute.

I was really hoping I wouldn't have to ask her to censor herself around this girl. Dd gets a little heavy on the academics sometimes, and takes a real hard hit to her self esteem and faith in people when other parents ask her to withhold bits of reality from their kids. She's so fascinated with the magic of it all.

[Maluhia]

He thought it was cute.....and? Any date prospects?

[incorrigible]

heh...now that he's living across the street, I'm treading lightly on that idea. The current state of things is that he's always wanted his daughter to have a neighborhood friend to hang out with (and kids don't just hang out or play unless it's a structured activity in this town, so that's like unheard of). He's really looking forward to the girls hanging out, but we don't have anything set up yet. He's been a little flirty in the past, and I'm sure word has gotten back to him that I'm interested. Whether he is or not, I get the feeling he's treading a little lightly right now too. We have SO many friends in common. My sister is his superior at work, and he just moved into a neighborhood we're well loved in....as I said, right across the street. Date or not, he's someone I could see myself definitely becoming good friends with, though, and our dd's seem to really like each other.

[Maluhia]

Sounds like a nice slow start to something...be it great friendship or something else down the road....