Meg is at that age now when the school sends out a note regarding putting the kids through a video on “My Body & I.” After a lot of back and forth amongst friends this was deemed as something ewwwww. As I returned home from work, I was greeted to an elaborate discussion on the event itself and the date it was planned for. The school has put a fair deal of thought into this separating the boys and the girls, delegating a female teacher to supervise the girls while the boys watched a similar but different video appropriate for the male species with their male teacher.
After patiently listening to all the details Meg offered & hearing the uncertainty in her voice, I calmed her down explaining that the video was a common practice in schools & that I had gone through a similar video in my school when I was her age. That seemed settle her nerves and ended the conversation. The date of the video screening arrived. Meg returned home with a beautifully packed lavender colored bag that carried all the essentials explained in the said video. She shyly explained to me that the girls had opened the bags to display the contents to the boys in her school bus. She claimed that she had done no such thing and had quietly stuffed it in her backpack. She even told her ever curious grandma to ask mom what she was narrating to me is a hushed voice.
I smiled at how much my little girl had grown & had learned to not blurt little girlie details in front of an audience. Barely had this thought registered as I watched my baby girl run to her dad as he stepped into the house from work that evening exclaiming “Appa, they gave me a packet at school today after playing the video for us girls!”
I guess dad will always be special and privy to all details that elude other males. And I am happy my daughter is growing but the child in her is still there for me to enjoy for a few more years.
