Our Dinner Conversations are Weirder Than Yours…

Our Dinner conversations are weird…but it’s great to be able to talk about things in an open way with your children, regardless of the subject. The other night we were talking about genetics. I don’t now how we started it, I probably did because my family had these same conversations when I was a kid and it seemed normal to me, but then my dad butchered lambs on the kitchen floor while mum bagged them and put them in the freezer, so what do I know?

Sheep Farmer

Anyway we were talking about how you get the traits you get, and how you’re half mum and half dad but also quarter all your grandparents, and how both kids, Miss Gremlin and Grand Master D are combinations of both parents, the King and I . How the blood lines become too close and where defects come from. I was trying to explain that you can breed with animals down to the grand generation before you need to cross breed with a new blood line. They weren’t getting it so I changed tact. I said it was like if you two had a kid…I prefaced it of course with, which is illegal because society frowns upon it… but the kids stopped listening cos they were all eww and gross and MUM!

The King was just watching me go…. He loves to watch me dig myself into holes like this. Then after the ‘ick’ died down and I said “Well you wouldn’t, because it’s your sister, but if you were an animal you could… Then as the thought entered my head I said ‘But hey you could totally breed with the Princess because she is only half the same as you cos she has dad and her mum!”…. WELL that was the end of that! ย They just lost it and everyone laughed so hard that my genetics lesson was over.

My family just doesn’t understand me.

* No siblings had to breed with each other for this post.That would be 1. illegal, 2. weird and 3. icky.. I was just making a point in a way they could understand… I may have failed. They are still laughing at me. but it made sense when my dad explained it. ๐Ÿ™‚

* Don’t marry a city boy and raise city kids and expect them to understanding farm stuff.

 

 

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  1. Sadly our kids dinner time conversations are starting get a little less weird as they get that bit older. I miss the madness. Might be time for a new one! ๐Ÿ˜‰

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  2. Lol, i get ya Molley. This sounds very similar to conversations at my house. My kids and husband always seem to find me and the stuff that comes out of my mouth hilarious, i think they bond over making fun of me. Thanks for sharing!!

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  3. We have weird conversations here too. Not usually as intellectual as your genetic discussion…ours typically involve bodily functions. And my family laughs at me too – we moms get no respect.

  4. That sounds just like ours, from what the meat is on the table to how I give birth. I have lost count how many times The Counting Mutant has dropped his fork because of the topic. They just didn’t talk about these things in his house. He sits there gobsmacked, as the conversation completes. Then picks up his fork in silence and continues.

  5. How true. It is hard to explain “farm stuff” city kids and I guess I don’t really get it myself. For instance, a couple of months ago, my son asked me why do we call the meat from cows-beef and the meat from pigs-pork, but chicken-chicken. I’m like **blink,blink** I have no idea.

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  6. One of the worst parts of having an empty nest is missing those conversations. Our conversations always involved sending one of the kids to get the encyclopedia so we could look up whatever A) I was trying to explain, or B) I had no idea how to answer.

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