On Wednesday night Christian and I were in the car driving home from church. He had tried out for the praise team in the elementary worship department (did a good job if I do say so myself).
Tim's car has this defect that the radio station will change when the car is turned off. It doesn't happen every time but many times. We had been listening to either Radio Disney or K-Love on the way to church. When we got back in the car, talk radio was on. Before I had a chance to change the channel the news announcer said, "Senator Craig says he is not gay."
switch channel
From the backseat, "Mom, what's gay?"
GULP!
Me: "Do you really want to know?" (hoping he wouldn't but glad that he would actually ask me when he didn't know something.)
"yep"
GULP! Where's Tim during all this??????
Me: "Many years ago gay used to mean 'happy' but in more recent times, people use it to talk about homosexual people. Do you know what homosexual means?"
"nope"
Me: "You sure you really want to know?"
"yep"
Me: "Homosexual means when boys have romantic feelings for boys and girls have romantic feelings girls." (thinking to myself am I doing this right?)
"gross" (of course this coming from the boy who still thinks girls are 'gross')
sigh of relief
Me: "People tend to call boy homosexuals gay and girl homosexuals lesbians. Don't ask me why because I really don't know."
Me: "Anymore questions?" (did I really just ask that?)
"nope"
GULP! (thank goodness!)
This really wasn't the talk I thought I would have with my 9 year old son on the way home from the church building! It makes me very aware that the "facts of life" talk isn't really that far behind. I am really praying that Tim is around for that discussion. I guess I really need to start preparing for what I am going to say.
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Whew! You handled that well! I'm constantly caught off guard by the questions my kids (especially Katie) ask, but, like you, I'm just glad they're asking ME instead of getting their info from some more dubious source!
There's so much out there in the world that we wish our children didn't have to know about, but I keep reminding myself that there's nothing new under the sun, and that the early church thrived in a world every bit as corrupted and ungodly as ours. All the more important to be light and salt, right?
Great job on this tough conversation! I'm sure there are more coming around the bend! :D
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