So how do you?

When you are a woman in a house full of boys, many things will surprise you. When our first child was born, we knew early on that his privates would not be referred to by it's real name, so in our wonderful wisdom, "it" became his "equipment". We continued with this when our second was born and they have always referred to it as their "equipment".

I became very confused when we were in the pool the other day and the 3 year old started talking about pirates. This made no sense, there were no pirates in the pool, no one was acting like a pirate so dh and myself just looked on with confusion while trying to figure out the babbling of the "pirates". This was all directed towards his brother but what the heck?

I finally figured it out when he cries out "Brubber is splashing my pirates" and puts his hand in front of his equipment. AH HA (light bulb moment) his pirates are his privates!

On the note of the boys referring to their parts as "equipment" we've had one teacher just about fall out of her chair with laughter when the oldest boy referred to his "equipment". She said she had to turn around in her chair so he couldn't see her laugh! She had never heard "it" referred to as equipment!

The second was the 3 year olds teacher. I warned her at the beginning of the school year (after this taking the oldest son's teacher by surprise) what he calls "it". Today she tells me that they were outside playing and she tells the 3 year old "You need to get off the equipment and leave it alone." She said he looked at her with a very confused look and says "I wasn't doing anything with my equipment". She realized what she had said and corrected herself! She is going to have a fun year trying to avoid using the word "equipment". Sorry, well, not really, I just would absolutely cringe and turn into a horrible nasty monster if the real word ever popped out of their mouth (especially at their ages).