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My Son's Sexual Curiosity by Brenda Graham Shrider

Sex. A three letter word which can have many a parent go weak in the knees; dreading the day a children will ask their mother or father about 'it'. We practice the parental speeches in our mind in preparation for that day. Yet what if the child asks before the parent is ready or their questions aren't the ones expected? Then, as Brenda shares with us, this could be where humor comes in!

My son and I spent a lot of time together while he was growing up, so it was common place for us to have frank and not so frank discussions.

I best recall a car trip to Grandma's house when he was about 4 years old. Sitting quietly in the seat next to me, he suddenly blurts out, "mom... what is sex?"

I was somewhat taken back, but quickly regained my sense of motherhood's duty and thought to ask him to use the word "sex" in a sentence. So he asks, "you know mom, am I an M or an F?"...At 4, I was glad to answer only his direct question with a slight chuckle to myself....

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Simply Southern: The Humor, Insight & Fun of a Southern Good Old Gal
[Cappy Hall Rearick; 232 pages]
I thank Cappy for sharing, the humorous story "Stretched Genes", here with Humor Is Relative's readers. The above link is for the paperback version of her book but there is a hardbook also available. Either way you go - can't lose; this woman has a wickedly humorous pen she puts to paper. Can you relate?

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