Are Panties Show and Tell Appropriate?

Olivia

   OMG, one thing I can say about parenting is there is never a dull moment.  Let’s take my sweet little daughter, Olivia (we call her Livi). She will be 5 years old this month, goes to a Christian preschool and to her life is about sunshine and rainbows. To her life is too short and magical to worry or care about the details. 

Yesterday she had the privilege of being the star of Show and Share at school.

“What do you want to bring to school and share with your classmates?” I asked. “Whatever. I don’t care,” she replied with the carefree attitude and cherub smile she usually gives me for everything.

“Well, how about if I pack something in your backpack?” I asked, knowing she was already done with our conversation and on to playing with Mr. Potato head. “Sounds great mama!” she answered and skipped off.

So I packed Thumbelina and the brown bear her grandmother had made for her out of an old fur stole with delicate little pearls around it’s neck. Of course, Livi was just happy enough to go to school and forgot her backpack so I had to quickly drive back home with Makayla and Devin in tow, grab the back pack, fly back and hand the backpack off to the teachers.

Well, needless to say over an hour later when I went to pick up Olivia her three teachers were in hysterics, one was laughing so hard I thought she was going to pee her pants as they told me Olivia’s Show and Share story. Keep in mind I always keep a snack, water bottle and change of clothes also in her back pack.

“Apparently, Olivia thought she should show every single thing that was in the backpack to the class,” her teacher said as she was laughing.

“What?” I asked, unsure of where the conversation was going.

“Well, she pulled every single thing out of the backpack and said, ‘And these are my Tinkerbell panties’ pulling them out of her bag with her change of pants”, she explained and all three teachers were just howiling as I felt my face get hot. I was a mixture of embarassment and amusement.

“Her classmates were very interested and one actually asked to see them, we of course stopped them right there, but we all found amusement out of it.”

When we got in the car I turned around and asked how her Show and Share was.

“I planted a snake plant today!” she replied proudly holding up a stryofoam cup filled with soil and a big bright smile.

“No care in the world,” I said under my breath, “I wish I lived in your world,” I said just giggling to myself.