A child's mind is such an innocent and often inquisitive thing, with everything a child comes across goes the question "But why?"
You can explain to your hearts content, but the answer you give will never satisfy the curious mind of a child.
The way in which a child views the world is quite often very different to the way we ourselves view it, a child sees things for what they are.
Sometimes on very rare occasions a child's innocence and inquisitive nature can also cause us huge embarrassment, as I discovered when my daughter who is now 18 years old, was just 2 years old.
I had my 3 yearly appointment at my G.P's surgery for a smear test, the appointment every woman dreads, and no matter how many times the nurse assures you "I've seen it all before" it doesn't take away the horrible feeling of laying on a couch legs akimbo with your worldly goods on show, however on this occasion she had not actually seen mine before, because I had recently moved to the area and therefore it was my first appointment with her. I almost felt compelled to introduce her to 'it'
The appointment was a little awkward, because I had my daughter with me, and could not leave her in the waiting room, even if I could have done so I wouldn't want to. So the nurse asked her if she would like to do some drawing, she left the room and came back with some plain paper and a handful of crayola crayons.
The nurse asked me to go the other side of the curtain and remove the bottom half of my clothing and lie down on the bed, begrudgingly I followed her instructions, she then came inside the curtain, and put a small sheet over me, then those awful words followed " Pull your knees up, ankles together and drop your legs" Again I did as I was asked, "relax Sharon" she said as she clumsily tried to put the speculum in, this piece of equipment can only have been modelled on a car jack, it is awful, and I swear they put them in the freezer before hand just for shits and giggles!
So there I lay in the most unladylike fashion, when the nurse turned away to reach for something, and I heard a little voice say "Momma, I can see right up your bum" I snapped my legs shut, with the speculum still in place, which was agony and burst out laughing, the nurse had tears streaming down her face, it was a few minutes before we had both composed ourselves to enable her to continue with the test.
Once the test had been done I dressed myself and held my daughters hand as we walked out of the room, and just as we had got back into the waiting room to leave, my daughter looked up at me with her big green eyes and said with a giggle "Momma I seed right up your bum I did" there must have been 8 people in the waiting room, I couldn't get out of that door quick enough, I was so embarrassed and so red faced it hurt!
And just to top the day off nicely, once we had got back in the house I discovered that my little innocent 2 year old had robbed the crayons from the nurses room, but I'll be buggered if I was going to go back, not after they all knew my daughter had seen right up my bum.
