Panic, panic, panic.
There has been an un expected development in the Scribble household this evening, and one which will require me to sit down with IJ (aged 6) and have 'one of those chats'.
However, I am not prepared and this development has been thrown upon me without warning.
I should have been prepared. Apparently things like this happen in Year 2.
Let me explain.
This evening while having her bath, IJ asked me how to spell 'tummy'. She memorised my reply carefully and then spelt it back to me to make sure she was right.
I asked her why she wanted to know.
"Because I have a drawing of a person and I have to fill in the names of the body parts," She told me.
"Did you say body parts?" I asked.
And indeed she did, they are having the body parts lesson.
Feeling the sudden need to check her level of understanding, I said, "You do know that girls and boys are a little bit different don't you?"
"You mean their bodies are different?" she asked.
"Yes, have you noticed that your friend Michael's body is a but different to yours?"
(They once played a pulling pants down game, before all the parents stepped in and stopped it!)
So IJ said, "Yes I have noticed. Michael is a little bit taller than me."
Oh dear. She hasn't noticed. She is going to get a shock.
So do I tell her or her teacher?
Yep. It's a job for me.
Wish me luck.
