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“We wanted you to have the chance to do kindergarten at this fantastic new school with this great teacher and all these wonderful new friends.” You might even add, “It’s too bad all your old friends didn’t have that chance, isn’t it?” It’s pretty clear he is exactly where he is supposed to be. I would “explain” the situation only in terms of its positives, and in a way that he’ll be able to understand-in other words, by telling him the truth, but only the part of the truth that is going to be helpful to him. I’m glad that things are working out so well for him and that you are certain you made the right decision (from what you’ve said, so am I!). My guess is that it came up in conversation with one or more of the other children-that he said something about his old kindergarten and someone let him know that doing kindergarten twice is not the way it usually goes. It may well not have fully registered with him until now. Otherwise you will end up with a teenager who doesn’t trust you with such conversations. You will definitely want to keep this advice in mind, going forward. When you and your 11-year-old have a conversation about bodies, sex, gender, etc., it’s between the two of you. Did you do this because you had doubts that you’d done the right thing? Or because you had no doubts but were bragging a little bit about your superior (to the waffle family and the worship family) child-rearing skills/instincts? Whatever the reason was: Don’t do that. Since it seems unlikely to me that WAP-the phenomenon or the song itself-just happened to come up in the course of ordinary conversation with all these people, I can only assume that you went to them and repeated this exchange. So really the only part of your letter that gives me pause is that you got “a lot of blowback” from family and friends-not because they questioned your choice to be forthright with your kid (no surprise there, as most people, I’ve found, are not forthright with their children, especially not about sex and bodies) but because this means you contacted various members of your circle to announce that you had been forthright. Was is right for me to forewarn and forearm my daughter? Or should I have continued the babies-come-from-storks approach favored by other adults in my parent group?Īnd furthermore I believe that telling children, in an age-appropriate way, about bodies and their functions, is healthy. The consensus is that I should have lied and either 1) supported the alternate meanings offered by the adults in other children’s lives, or 2) backpaddled hard and committed to it meaning anything other than what it actually means. To my surprise, I have received a lot of blowback, both from within my family and from friends, about being forthright with my daughter about the meaning of WAP. My daughter and I talk openly about sex, gender, sexual orientation, feelings, and everything else, so a candid discussion of WAP is within the comfort zone of our parent/child relationship. Being the tell-it-like-it-is and sex/body-positive parent I am, I gave my daughter an age-appropriate version of what WAP actually means, told her about the song and the video, and said that is it probably better not to use the acronym at all because adults know what it really stands for and if she used it she might get in trouble at school or with her friends’ families. Fast forward a week, and my daughter came home from school asking if WAP also means “worship and prayer,” because that’s what her friend’s grandma had told her. I asked her what she thought that meant, and she said a girl from her softball team had told her it meant “waffles and pancakes” (information that came from her parents). My 11-year-old daughter asked if we could have WAP for breakfast the other day. Have a question for Care and Feeding? Submit it here or post it in the Slate Parenting Facebook group. Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column.
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