“Honey, why don’t you have your panties on?” I asked my daughter one morning when I noticed her lack of appropriate underwear.
Calmly she answered, “I put them on my brother’s face.” She didn’t even look up from the puzzle she was busy assembling. When I looked closely at the boy, I saw that what he was wearing pulled down over his ears was not, as I’d first thought, some makeshift headgear crafted from doll clothes. I was momentarily flummoxed.
“Why would you put your underpants on your brother’s face?” I finally asked.
“Because I wanted to make him smell them,” she replied in the most matter-of-fact way you could possibly imagine before dropping the puzzle and retrieving her undergarments.
And I was left to wonder if I’d inadvertently witnessed the birth of a fetish. Whether it will be one that affects the boy, or the girl, or the both of them is yet to be seen.
Awkward.
could be worse.
‘cept at that age, underpants are more of an eew gross thing. Like, putting underpants on your brother’s head so he has to smell them is the rough equivalent of smearing boogers on him. Kids (well, the ones I know) do that sort of thing in an attempt to irritate each other.
What’s funny is that your boy took it in such stride and just left them there. Very cute.
lol how very odd. :) You should have taken a picture for when the boy starts dating. Every parents needs to be armed with embarrassing photos, right?
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Thanks so much, Sarah. I really needed to hear that this morning. :)
Maybe, maybe not. Brothers and sisters do tend to want to irritate each other as Lilly2 said. That they were so calm and open about it makes me think it was just a regular kid thing like daring each other to eat a bug.
Hehe, I think its just a normal kid thing. Like Lilly said everything is eww gross when you’re a kid. I was mortififed when my son came to me and said “smell my finger!” and you can guess where it had been >_< To him it was just hilarious though.
Never ever ever smell anything offered by a toddler!
:)
Kids being kids …
Ya can’t make this stuff up, can ya?
If I remember correctly, they say that smell can evoke the strongest sense memory…..wonder if this will come back to haunt the boy later in life?
Something to ponder… :-)
Oh good god…
:)
Even if you don’t have a photo (as Sarah so wisely suggested getting), you still have a great story to tell for years to come.
And if a child ever chooses to reveal a underwear-on-head-related fetish, it will make talking about it oh-so-much easier. The only “ew” factor will be a recollection of the possible smell, not the fact that such a fetish has developed :)
for the past two years my now three year old just loves my underwear. Mind you, only the pretty, lacy, frilly ones. he still puts them on and asks why his sister does not wear the same.
But he does love his transformers and diego ones that he wears. I agree with you that fetishes could start extremely early. I’ve always wondered that this could be a telling sign as to the way he will be when he is older.
Who could blame him? They are pretty, interesting to look at, and they feel great on the skin.
I find it extraordinarily understandable that some men love women’s panties. I just don’t understand why they all don’t.
:)
When my 6yo was a baby, he used to pull my undies out of the laundry and wear them around his neck. To take it away from him was to incite the wrath of the child. And as you know, that’s a definite no-no. He has since grown out of it (or figured out that not everyone does this). Shrug. Whatever.
:)
peace…
That totally made me laugh out loud!
My kid brother is the youngest in a family of 3 (sometimes 4) girls, and my parents were consistently horrified with how we treated him, but we never did anything like this to the poor kid.
Points for originality!
And he turned out ok? Please tell me he turned out ok!
:)