I went away overnight to Manchester for a Body Shop at Home party. It was the first time I’ve ever left Grace overnight and I’ve never left Jonah and gone somewhere on my own without Phil. It was a very odd (but totally fabulous) experience. I obviously missed them all terribly and despite being rather tired, I was glad to be home at lunch time.
This afternoon, Jonah has a freestyle dance exam (he’s in there now!) so I was home in time to take him which I’m very glad about. However, he was true to form and has blown my mind on the way to the dancing school. Nearly every Saturday, on the way to dancing, Jonah comes out with some philosophical or profound and it’s always too early to deal with it really. But I do, because I’m a mommy.
Today, he has told me about why rocks are all different colours and then started asking me as sorts of questions about rocks “because you’re a scientist and you know mommy”. I know nothing about rocks! I’m a biologist. So the journey was quite intense.
A little while ago, he asked me why boys have short hair and girls have long hair. When I said it was just the way of the world and most people preference but that was changing (and when he paid for his own hair cuts he could decide how to have his hair) he said, in a very accusatory tone, “you’re a gender stereotyper mommy”. I was floored. This prompted a conversation about the differences between gender stereotypes, being a gender stereotyper and having a preference.
We’ve had the conversation about where dinosaurs fit into our beliefs, how babies get out of a belly when they are born, why men can’t have babies, how the milk gets to the breast for breast feeding, why boys have different bits to girls and a little about genetics after he asked about his ginger hair being a recessive gene!
If you have any tips at all to help me with this boy, please let me know! In the mean time I will continue answer him without lying but in a way a 7 year old head can understand and I’ll just be exhausted 😂
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