03 Thursday May 2012
Posted in Family
The diary
This is a transcribed entry from my actual diary, started in 1994. I was 11. In my infinite wisdom I decided to write up this diary and then put it on the radio. You can listen to some of the past entries either here or here.
It’s all rather embarrassing, but going through it has brought back some funny memories. So read on and then tell me, what were you doing on 21st October 1994? Continue reading »
19 Thursday Apr 2012
Posted in Speech, Uncategorized
I’d like to talk about vaginas.
Right, now that I’ve got your attention, let me explain.
Frog doesn’t have a vagina. Well, I suppose she does, but we don’t call it that. She’s a girl and everything, without a willy (as her friend, Arthur, likes to point out over and over again) but, until recently her “girl’s parts” didn’t have a name.
We dabbled with “flower” but it didn’t fit. “Mini” enjoyed a short stay in our house too, but was eventually sent packing. For a while it was just, “that bit” or “you know…” until a better way of referring to it came along. Continue reading »
19 Wednesday Oct 2011
Posted in Uncategorized
Tags
baby, body parts, boys, child development, gender, girls, Parenting
My daughter has just found out she is a girl.
It hasn’t been an instant discovery.
There was the fascination with her hands when she was around six months old, with the constant inspection of her fingers. And then came the perusal of her feet and examination of each toe. Each day brings a new discovery of body part, which occupies my 15 month old daughter for a good few hours.
And now we appear to have moved on to a new area. Continue reading »