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What is sex, daddy?
T: What is sex daddy?
Dad:
Where did you hear that?
T:
Umm, “Friends” show.
Dad:
When did you watch “Friends”?
T:
The other night.
Dad:
WHEN?
T:
Monday.
Dad:
Which Monday?
T:
No Thursday.
Dad:
Where was I?
T:
I don’t know dad, at work.
Dad:
Where was M.?
T:
Umm, Here.
Dad:
“Friends” is not a show for kids.
T:
Oh, I know.
Dad:
Why did she let you watch it then?
T:
No! I watched it myself.
Dad:
Did you ask her what it meant?
T:
No. she was talking on the phone.
Dad:
Did you ask anyone else what it meant?
T:
No.
Dad:
Great! She’s busy talking on the phone; you watch grown up shows on TV…
T:
It’s funny dad.
Dad:I don’t care if it’s funny; it’s for grown ups. It’s not a show appropriate for kids your age.
T:
Are you mad at me?
Dad:
Yes I am.
T:
Are you mad at her too?
Dad:
I’m not sure. It seems to be your problem now.
T:
 What daddy?
Dad:
If I knew about it then, I would have mentioned it to her. By not telling me about it when it happened you made it your own responsibility. Now, it’s your problem. Do you understand?
T:
Am I grounded?
Dad:
What is grounded?
T:
I don’t know.
Dad:
Newer mind being grounded. What was the show about?
T:
Oh, Ross had sex wit another woman.
Dad:
Oh Great!
T:
Yes. He kissed her for a long time and slept next to her.
Dad:
So you know what it is!
T:
Sex is when two people kiss each other for a long time and sleep next to each other.
Dad:
Right! Sex is, also, a stage in life that comes after you graduate from medical school. You know pre-school, Kindergarten, lower school, middle school, high school, college, medical school, so on and so forth. You know those stages. Right?
T:
Yes. I know. Sex is like a butterfly.
Dad:
A butterfly! Right. Tell me how.
T:
First it’s an egg; then it’s a caterpillar, then it becomes a chrysalis, after that it becomes a butterfly.
Dad:
EXACTLY! Now can a butterfly be a chrysalis after it’s an egg.
T:
NO! First it has to become a caterpillar.
Dad:
Can a person go to middle school after graduating from Kindergarten?
T:
NO! First she has to finish lower school.
Dad:
Can a person have sex after high school?
T:
NO! First she has to go to college. Daddy, every one goes to medical school?
Dad:
No. some people go to law school and some others go to business school…
T:
And some people go to architecture school.
Dad:
Exactly. There are many possibilities to choose from. What you need to pay attention is the natural cycle of it; the natural order. You can’t force any thing out of its natural cycle.

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