On the drive back from Old Navy today, the long long drive
back. My son talked about Canyon
Farts. You don’t know either? Well, he tried to explain these phenomenon’s
but between the air conditioning kicking in occasionally and the fact that his
seat is at the back of the bus I must have missed some key elements regarding
his creative idea of Canyon Farts.
Then we discussed why we don’t need to speak about farting
in public. Why? Well, while we were at Old Navy in the
dressing room. He was trying on khaki’s
for his new school uniform and keep exclaiming he had to step into his fart and
try on a fart. Then his little brother
would try to swing open the wide door while big brother exclaimed something
about farting.
So why we can talk
about farting at home but not in public was a confusing topic for my little
boy. “Why?” he asked perplexed several
times. I replied that some people might
be offended by the topic. “But Mommy,
you think it’s funny.”
Ok, I couldn’t
deny it, “Yes, I do.” “Why?” he asked
again. And here is a round about way of
how I responded, “Well, it’s just funny that your body can make funny sounds
and that it smells.” Then I discussed
why it’s always funnier to be the farter and other people be made to smell
it.
This led me to the discussion of “smelt
it, dealt it” and different names and explanations of farts like “silent but
deadly” “cut the cheese” “poot” “make a
stinky”. Well, you smell the
picture. Our conversation wrapped up towards
the end of the 20+ minute drive with me explaining that farts can actually be
lit they can be lit after my innocent little child asked if farts could
burn. Sigh… farts and burning something in the same
sentence and he’s only 5? This parenting
thing is going to be a fun and wild ride! LOL
