Saturday, August 04, 2007

Since the invention of the kiss there have been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure...

And then there are the kisses you discover your 6 year old sharing with her 6 year old friend when he's over to stay the night.
Marlena and Simon were upstairs, playing in her dress up trunk, like they have a thousand times. This time however, they were pretending to be married, because my darling child is obsessed with kissing.
She and I have had many discussions about how mommies and daughters don't share romantic kisses, brothers and sisters don't share romantic kisses, and that she is too young for a romantic kiss.
She sees kissing all around her. When we take her to see Harry Potter she sees kissing, when she watches The Princess Bride or Star Wars she sees kissing. Then she, being a method actor in the extreme, wants to see what all the fuss is about. Regardless of the conversations we have had about kissing, my daughter bravely forges ahead, to try out this kissing nonsense on Simon.
Why him? Because I am sure in a moment of idiocy I explained why you don't try to romantically kiss your 3 month old brother by stating those kisses are reserved for boys, when she is older.
Well, Simon is a boy, and now, she is older.

The two of them in particular have had an increasing aura of suspiciousness about them over the last few months, and his mom and I have been keeping a closer eye on them, we just didn't realize their playfulness and curiosity had gotten to the point of kissing!

Ack! Sadly, this means no more overnights between Ellen's kids and mine. It has been coming for a while, this need to separate the girls and the boys, but it is the end of an era.

I now have a Girl. A Girl who knows which of her friends is a Boy, and is aware enough of the differences that she wants to kiss him. And lock the door to her room while she does it.

3 comments:

Woman with a Hatchet said...

She LOCKED the door?!

Aieee!

And I've fretted over Caitlin wanting to marry people! At least she's never suggested smooching them!

Scylla said...

Yes. She locked the door. Trying not to hyperventilate.

Woman with a Hatchet said...

Do you have one of those thingies that you pop into the lock to get it to open or is it not a "safety" sort of lock?

You might want to consider removing the lock altogether, it would suck if she locked herself in and then something weird/bad happened on the wrong side of the door.

Just call me paranoid!

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