Will: Daddy, why do boys like girls?
Glenn: Sometimes boys get lonely and want somebody to be with. Sometimes when they grow up, they want to have children like you and Reina. (Translation: Go have all of the fun that you want to have and do all of the stuff that you want to do, and then find a girl who will have your babies. It worked for me.)
Me: Hmph.
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(Clarification: This was an actual conversation between Will and Glenn that Glenn relayed to me after the fact. If I had been in the bathroom when said conversation took place, I would have pointed out to the 4-yr old that boys like girls because girls smell nice and it's fun to do stuff with people who like to do the same things as you. I lovingly and respectfully disagree with the notion that you can go be a mountain man and hunt and fish and do whatever you want and then come back to civilization and find a woman. Yes, it worked for Glenn but that's beside the point. He just got extremely lucky. If he ever figures out how to access this blog, he can post his own rebuttal. Until then, I will be strictly monitoring father/son communication. What's next, how to "pretend that you don't know how to turn on the washing machine so you don't ever have to do laundry?")
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