Monday - That's My Boy

[ninanevermore]

Today on my drive into work, I was thinking about what my son's daycare teacher told me when I picked him up on Friday.

"He keeping taking out his pee-pee and showing it to the little girls," she said.

I put my hand on my forehead and tried to hide behind it.

"Oh, God, I'm sorry. He's just started showing it off. I'm sorry." I don't know why I was so mortified -- this woman works with toddlers and this can't be anything she hasn't seen before.

"I just ask him to put it away and pull up his pants, and he usually does," I said helpfully. This is what he does for me, at least. I had no idea what he does in front of potential girlfriends.

"Oh, don't worry about it. We get him dressed again and he's fine. I'll pick him up and hold him and talk to him about it, and he just wants to cuddle. He's very sweet. I just thought you should know what he's been up to."

"Thanks. I mean, I'm sorry. It's just something he's, you know, going through right now."

She said she understood.

I mulled over what she had described: my son walking up to a group of girls holding the glory of his masculinity in his hand, his demeanor saying, "Hey, look at this! Isn't this thing awesome? Okay, now that you've seen it, somebody hold me."

At not quite 2 years old, I know this is normal, if not socially acceptable, behavior. If he's still at it as a teenager, I'll have to have a talk with him.

Jeff, was dismayed, then pragmatic about it.

"Our baby is a pervert," he groaned.

"Yeah, but he's a sweet pervert," I said, "He likes to cuddle afterward."

"At least he's showing it off to little girls," Jeff mused, "I guess this means there's a good chance we'll have grandchildren some day."

Well, yes, there is that. And here I couldn't find the bright side to this story.

Comments

[amacmillian.livejournal.com]

The Montessori school my daughter went to had open doors on all of the bathrooms. It wasn't anything to see a 3-4 year-old boy wander out of the bathroom looking for a helping hand with his clothes. I talked to a teacher about it, and they said "Oh, yeah, we try to get them to put their clothes on in the bathroom." I was like "NAKED BOYS! IN THE HALL!" Even my daughter's attitude was something along the lines of "SO?"

As long as they stop somewhere between 2 and 18 I think it's ok.

NAKED BOYS! IN THE HALL!

[neanahe.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping he stops way before 18....

[amacmillian.livejournal.com]

I'm sure he will, and it will be stories like this you will tell his potential dates, and he'll be mortified.

[neanahe.livejournal.com]

I'm his mom, that's my job. Telling stories and showing off naked baby pictures of him to his prom date. ^_^

Hopefully, he will recover and start talking to me again by the time he's 30.

[amacmillian.livejournal.com]

and they say the major milestones are over at 5. The forget: Mom mortification, and talking to parents again.

[neanahe.livejournal.com]

It's simple.

If I'm showing photos, they are art.

If he's taking it out and showing it in public, it's a perverted live sex show that needs to be shut down by the authorities (his parents or his teacher, in this case). ;P