MOMPROVEMENT

What Do You Mean?

Posted by admin on August 11, 2009

What do you mean? 

Ah, those four simple words could have saved me a serious mom-mistake yesterday.

My 9 year old daughter and I were at WalMart yesterday getting some organizational supplies for our new house.  As we were walking down one of the aisles, she asks “Mom, what is a stipper?”.  I pause, then, thinking that she had somehow heard about Miley Cyrus’ little pole dance from some friends of hers, I say “well, dear, a stripper is a girl who takes off her clothes for money.”

To which her reply is “ewww, gross, mom – no that’s not what I meant – this aisle here says it has paint and strippers.

Yikes, wrong answer! Let’s see if I can save this.

 ”Okay, well, ignore what I just said.  That kind of stipper is a chemical that takes paint off of things.  Sorry about that.”

To which she replies – “gee mom, I think when I’m grown up and my kid asks me  a question, I’ll ask what they mean before I give them an answer like that.”

I really blew it on this one.  Here I was afraid that my 9 year old had been exposed to the worldly things, only to find out that she was perfectly safe until I opened my mouth!