Me: If a man or a woman wanted to touch your bottom or vulva, what could you do?
Lauca: Say NO.
Me: Yes, or you could cry, or say stop, or run away, or scream .. or maybe find Daddy, or just tell Mummy about it later.
Lauca: Hmm.
Me: Because those parts of your body are private, they’re for you to touch and no-one else.
Lauca: If a woman touched Daddy’s penis?
Me: She’d be in big trouble, let me tell you, BIG trouble.
blue milk 
Who’s sovereign of Daddy’s penis?
Good specific conversation. Hard work… at our house we’re still learning about ears, and eyes, and yes that’s Daddy’s nose, please don’t poke Daddy’s eyes, yes that’s your penis, that’s still your penis, do you really need to check it’s still there at every nappy change?
Yeah, I was thinking there were some body sovreignty issues for Daddy there, too.
My first thought was that he would properly be the one in big trouble, but of course that doesn’t fit with the message you were trying to send.
Bodily autonomy is HARD!
(This is Brooklynite, by the way. I’m in the process of creating a WordPress blog for professional blogging, and still working out how to manage my WP profile.)
Ha! Reasonable question…and reasonable response….
Hahaha. Yeah I’m not evolved enough yet to cope with his body sovereignty. Hers I can sorta deal with.
Good for you for teaching your child the proper names for her anatomy AND teaching her how to be in control of her own body!
And that was hilarious, too.
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