. . . We’re in the truck, and the middle-schooler makes some remark to me mentioning birth control — comment on the news, an advertisement, something a friend said, I can’t remember what. Eight-year-old eavesdropper in the back seat asks, “What’s birth control?”
I avoid choking and give a low-key answer, along the lines of, “It’s a drug or device used to make it so your body can’t have babies, or has a hard time having babies.”
End of discussion, we move on, middle-schooler picks up with something else.
A mile down the highway, eight-year-old says, “Wouldn’t making it so your body can’t have babies be a mortal sin?”
Score.
By Photo: Andreas Praefcke (Own work) [GFDL, CC-BY-SA-3.0 or CC BY 2.5], via Wikimedia Commons
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