Ever seen the movie Grown Ups? Well, one of the women in the film still feeds her son breast milk, and he's 5 years old! Of course it's just a movie, but my son caught on that it wasn't necessarily a normal thing to do. The kid called it "mommy's milk!". My son asked me about "mommy's milk" and I told him that when he was just a little baby he drank mommy's milk too. So he looked at and then pointed to my breasts and asked if milk was still in there. How do I explain to a 6 year old about how breasts produce breast milk? He wouldn't understand hormones and pregnancy and sucking stimulation and all that jazz. So I told him that it only happens after a baby is born and milk is only made when the baby still drinks from it. I told him that he quit wanting it when he wasn't even a year old so it all went away. I could tell he was trying to wrap his little mind around this. So then he asks what is in my boobs since they don't have milk in them. Again, how do I answer this?! It's my job as a parent to answer his questions but to keep them PG-rated. So I say that inside them is fat, some blood, and tissue. He goes, "tissues??" and it dawned on me that he thought body "tissue" meant "kleenex" tissues!
Wow.
Kids are so very literal.
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