It's Wednesday!

Anyhow...

My "almost seven" year-old told me something the other day. It is my plan as a father for her to know that communication with us on any issue acceptable, welcome, and good. We've already discussed "ass," "shit," the body parts, and how words have power and contextual uses and such.

But the other day she goes, "Daddy. I know what the middle finger means." Playing dumb, I asked, "What do you mean?" She says, "You know...the middle finger." I asked her what it meant. She told me that it meant that "you hate God." "No, no, no...." I proclaimed. I assured her that the middle finger definitely did not mean that you hated God (even as a non-believer I couldn't let her believe that). What it meant, I explained, was that if you pointed your middle finger at someone you were telling that person that you were either angry with them or that you hated that person. I explained that it was not a gesture she could use as a kid and that if I learned that she did, it would be a problem.

Then I asked her to show me how the kids were experimenting with it.

First she did this:

I explained that this was well executed but 180º backwards. I said, "turn it around." Then she did:

That's my girl!