One of our goals as parents for this summer is to get Olivia to become a better swimmer. 60% + of the earth is covered in water and swimming is a good life skill to attain and it is easier to teach a young child. She wants to learn and acknowledges that her friends can swim better than her. My wife did a good job vetting out swimming classes near us and we signed her up and all seems good. Well, it's never that easy.
In her 7 year old mind she has decided that if she is going to take lessons, she will need to practice as well. A good logical thought. Well she will need a pool at home to practice, of course. So we debate back and forth and she goes on the internet and picks out 2,000-3,000 gallon pools. I try (like a fool) to rationalize with her and explain to her that it is costly and a lot of work to put a pool in the backyard and for a small percentage of the money, we could join a really nice local pool.
I thought it was a good solution but she did not. She went on to explain to me that pools that you go to are for fun and she needs to practice swimming. Again, I try to rationalize with her and explain to her that she can in fact practice in a certain part of the pool AND have fun. She then goes on to tell me that adults could be SMOKING in the pool and she HATES SMOKE. Ok, like mother, like daughter. Understood and a little bizarre but not completely unbelievable. I laugh and tell her there is no smoking in public pools and she seems ok. Nothing prepared me for what was about to come next.
She goes on to tell that "Well, ok, but adults could be having S E X in the pool." Yes, she spelled it out instead of saying the word. As soon as she said it, she made me promise not to tell Mommy. I explained to her that we don't keep secrets and Mommy has to know. I really couldn't wait to tell her. So later when Mommy got home, we asked her to repeat what adults may do in a pool and sure enough she says the same exact thing. My wife asks her very calmly and methodically, "Do you know what that is?" She replies with a smile on her face that it is when "A Man and a Women love each other in the bed...naked." Astonished, my wife went on to ask her where she learned about that and of course she said that it was from TV. She asked what show and Olivia said she didn't remember but it wasn't the Big Bang Theory. She went on to rat out a certain relative which shall remain nameless (you know who you are) that apparently showed her the show on TV but she swears she doesn't remember the name of it.
Amazed, dazed and confused...I am wondering...what is the name of that show?
