8 year olds campaigning

My daughter shared with me the classmates who'd received her vote in the student council election.  Her first vote went to her best friend.... of course, her second went to the classmate who, in her speech, vowed to encourage "all girls to flush when they use the bathroom."  If only politics were so simple for adults.  The boy sitting next to my daughter voted for the same gal twice, because she'd vowed to get chicken wings on the cafeteria menu, a very important issue to him, apparently.

The Talk

As a parent, I've learned that most important conversations are impromptu.  One day you hear a friend with older daughters say, well we had 'the talk' today, and you think, I won't have that talk for years.  Then, your 6 year old has a teacher that is expecting, which leads to the question "where do babies come from?"  My two daughters teamed up on me too.  I started with the talk about love, marriage, baby, etc.  They wanted more of the physical details.  I elaborated, with what I thought they could understand, they pressed for more details, I responded "you really want to know?"  I offered a little more.  Their eyes got wider with each new morsel of knowledge.  At the end of the conversation, the younger one responded, "oh, I thought the woman just ate something and it grew in her tummy."  The older daughter said 'So a woman's body changes when she gets pregnant, what happens to the man's body?"I replied that nothing physically changes for men, she said in turn "well, thats not fair!"