kids ask A LOT of questions. it seems as though most of my conversations with each of my kids since they began talking was in response to one of their "why" questions. as the kids are getting older the questions have not ceased - however they have gotten much more intense, funny & significant. our oldest, caleb, is never shy of asking for a more thorough explanation for whatever is on his mind. at the ripe age of 8 we had a full blown trans-gender conversation. a few months ago we had the "sex" talk with him. and the other night we talked about swear words. he began this conversation, out of the blue, by asking, "what does the 'f' word mean?" and why is it SOO bad?" i took a deep breath and began in with my best answer. he than asked, "is one swear word worse than another... like, darn, dang, damn?" to this (with a slight giggle in my heart) we started talking about the hierarchy of swear words. it was so funny sitting there with my 9 year old talking about how the level of offensiveness determined how "bad" the swear word was....to be honest i hadn't ever thought about it like that before. so, what kind of funny conversations have you had with your kids?
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