Last week over breakfast my seven year old daughter told me that a girl in her latchkey that is in third grade says she wears a bra. She was all bug eyed and smiling when she told me. Which means this is very exciting news to her. I don’t remember my response but it must don’t have been good enough.
Because, last night while setting the table for dinner she said to me, I know you’re going to say no BUT, long pause.... do you think when I am nine I will be able to wear a bra? First I looked at her and said, I guess you can ask me when you are nine and I’ll let you know. Knowing she is only seven this gives me two more years to come up with an answer and who knows maybe by then she will need one? Gawd, I hope not but ya never know. She then looked away and said real serious, I just don’t get it, I don’t get the whole bra thing, what do they do any way? My closing statement on this was to tell her, don’t be in a hurry because once you start wearing one you’ll be wearing one for the rest of your life. Then I told her to go wash her hands for dinner.

Why do they have to grow up so fast?