When Did I Get Like This? by Amy Wilson

Author:Amy Wilson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2010-03-21T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

The Big P

It was 6:45 P.M., and Connor the Kindergartner had started his nightly refrain:

CONNOR: I don’t want to take a bath.

ME: You have to take a bath.

CONNOR: I took one last night!

ME: No, you didn’t.

Connor sighed heavily as he walked down the hallway, off to the gallows.

CONNOR: Can it be a short bath, at least?

ME: Fine. Just wash face, hands, feet, and…

I pointed to the below-the-belt areas, fore and aft.

I’m not sure why I did this. I could have simply said “penis” and “hiney,” as we say every day in our house. (Granted, “hiney” is not anatomically correct, but I think saying “Let Mommy wipe your buttocks” is just too silly.) I think that when I gestured to Connor’s penis and hiney, rather than naming them, I was reflecting Connor’s recent and sudden privacy concerning his private parts. He now wanted to wash those parts of himself by himself, rather than have me do it for him, as I had every night until a week or so before. Connor had a new understanding that his penis and, say, his elbow were not to be treated with equal casualness. So I did my little mime, then said,

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