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She blinded him with whiteness - 2008-07-25
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8:51 a.m. - 2008-04-14
My goodness it's sporadic here. A lot has been going on. Almost all of it good. I'll try not to inundate y'all with everything at once, so let us begin where I left off last time. Last week Wolf and the rest of the 5th graders learned about puberty. A letter came home a few days previous announcing the impending puberty thing and here was the number to call to opt out if we didn't want the school giving our son the head's up his body would sprout hair and go weird pretty soon. As I am always in favor of information and truth telling I gave Wolf the okay to participate. He's gotten plenty of information about his body and its wonderful changes and why the hell it does that from me, but I say one can never be too prepared for the onset of body odor and those rascally spontaneous erections. Besides, being a girl and having only sisters I've always been curious about what they said to the boys (who had been frog marched off to the gym) while we girls listened to the school nurse read excerpts from "Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret." and handed out our period starter packs from those lovely folks at Modess Maxi Pad Company. After getting his big old budget o' information at school I asked Wolf about how it went and if he still had any questions. He had a couple, mostly having to do with wet dreams and a bit of confusion about why puberty would suddenly start making him wet the bed when here he'd been potty trained for some years now. Cleared it up for him and all was well in puberty land. Over dinner Mick remembered it had been puberty day and asked Wolf for his thoughts on the matter. Wolf's reply: "Well there's four stages of puberty and what happens is your voice changes and you get hair in stupid places and you just get nastier and nastier and nastier looking until you're totally disgusting and then girls like you." Mick was still processing this amazing summation when Wolf added, "And you wet the bed, but not with pee." All righty then. My kid is well prepared for manhood.
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