Everyday Explanations

As any parent knows, your time with your children as they get older is full of questions and explanations. Just this morning, I spent the 40 minute drive in the car to the sitter answering a slew of questions that the boys asked (sometimes repeatedly).

Of course, as Hayden gets older his questions are more complex and he is more persistent in finding the true meaning to certain things. One day we were driving home and passed by this car sitting on the side of the highway, Hayden immediately asked why this car was just sitting there since there was no red light. I told him that no one was in the car, when he asked...yes you guessed it..."why" again, I (mistakenly) told him they were probably drinking and driving and went to jail! Hayden, immediately concerned as he had seen mommy drinking her Pepsi dug a little deeper. "You can't drink while you drive or you'll go to jail?!" Without thinking, I responded with "You can't drink BEVERAGES while driving, this is just a Pepsi." "What is a beverage?" So you can see, the conversation got deeper and deeper. I explained to Hayden that a beverage is a drink that mommies and daddies drink and it makes them act silly and so they should not drink while driving because it can be dangerous for everyone. When we get home, Hayden insists that I get on the computer to show him what a beverage was.

He seemed content with my response and left it at that. 5 minutes later, Brady bear asks me for a beverage.

Today's chat in the car involved pool chemicals. Some way, some how, Hayden gathered that pool chemicals were cleaners that would peel off your skin. Once I resolved that misunderstanding, he thought chemicals were cleaning people and didn't see how it would take them two days to clean a pool since they would probably be tired. Meanwhile, between having this conversation with Hayden; Brady was yelling at me telling me since there were clouds in the sky that I could not go to work. The tomato's (tornado's) would fall out of the sky (he then proceeded to show me how to cover my head with my arms should such a thing happen) and I could get hurt.

See...easy to get confused huh!

Which leads me to my last topic. Hayden knows the lyrics to almost every song on the radio now. I have realized that he has been singing the word "sex" which I am not thrilled about. He knows the words that are bad words now and what not to say but I am TERRIFIED to touch THAT word for fear of how far he will dig to get to the meaning. I have thought of Googling "how to teach a 5 year old about sex" but I am thinking that is not going to quite cut it.

So, please....if you hear my son singing a song with this untouchable word, please ignore. (or feel free to give me a suggestion as to how to explain he shouldn't say it)