Nina drew this last week. It’s a drawing of our family. Notice the slanted mouths? Her mommy just had a surgery that affected the nerves that control the facial expression. She can’t smile properly yet. One side is lower that the other. It will take up to 3 months for full recovery. So Nina decided to draw the mouth of the other family members that way too. 
Also note that she drew uncle Franky (second from left) with his tongue out because uncle Franky likes to tease Nina whenever we visit them in Jakarta. So, she drew him as if he was teasing her.
Nina: “Daddy, when you and mommy have not got married yet and are still friends, are you shy to take off your underpants in front of mommy?”
I was smiling and speechless in the beginning. I was caught off guard by this question, but then quickly answered:
Daddy: “No Nina, we cannot take off our underpants if we are not married yet”
I know that this answer is not really complete, but I hope to give her the idea and basic value around this topic. I know that more related questions may come soon and I’d better be prepared with good answers. Kids these days learn and hear so much that we as parents need to equip ourselves quickly with knowledge on how to handle these sensitive questions. Nina is only 5 now. At her age, I probably only thought of sweets.
Time to read more about this S . E . X education for children from the expert.
Nina has been sleeping without diapers with success for 6 consecutive days now. Hopefully this will continue. Her mommy would wake her up at around 2.30am and 6am to get her to the bathroom and then back to sleep. It has been successful so far, but poor her mommy that she had difficulty going back to sleep sometimes.
I have written before that Nina needs her mommy’s hair when sleeping. She needs to play and smell her mommy’s hair before she can finally sleep. Not sure how long this will continue. So I told her just now to learn to sleep without her mommy’s hair and she commented:
“Daddy, I need to learn new things one by one. Not two by two. I now learn not to wee wee on the bed. Later I will learn not to play with mommy’s hair. “
I got the point, Nina.
