Sometimes I'm still amazed at the funny things that children say. My sweet nine year old daughter, who is a very bold speaker, gave me a bit of wisdom yesterday. Although she's very aware of what happens during puberty, we've never quite had the technical discussion of how mommies become pregnant. So I was quite enlightened when we were sitting around the family room and she and her older sister were having a nice little conversation about Mary's virginity.
Once it was explained to Niah that a virgin is someone who has never been with a man, Niah very kindly said, "Well Mommy must be a virgin because I've never seen her 'with' Daddy. And if she isn't a virgin then she must have committed adultery." I tried my best to keep from laughing. It appears that although the darling has been in our bedroom, because she's never seen Mommy and Daddy "kiss" in the bedroom that there's no possible way Mommy could have ever been with Daddy to have babies. So when my eldest daughter asked Niah how Mommy and Daddy had so many children if they've never been "together." Niah smiled and simply said, "Maybe she was filled with the Holy Spirit."
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