Norah has been obsessed with “private areas” for a long time. Now she is also obsessed with “Kiwi Herman” and carries around this 20-year-old Pee-Wee Herman doll that used to say annoying stuff like “I know you are but what am I?” when you pulled the string.For a while now, whenever a boy is seen or mentioned, Norah points out that he has a p-nis. If I say, “Hey, there’s John walking his dog Charlie,” Norah says, “John has a p-nis…and Charlie has a p-nis too.” She doesn’t talk much about what girls have…she divides the world into two groups – with p-nis or without p-nis.
In preschool, Norah likes to play Spanish Bingo, which she calls “Yo Tengo!” (“I’ve got it!”) because that’s what they say when they have a picture on their Bingo card that matches the picture on the “grande card”. If the teacher pulls out the grande card with the glasses on it, whoever has a picture of glasses on their Bingo card yells, “Yo tengo!”
So today out of the blue Norah says, “When we play Yo Tengo, and Maria takes out a grande card and says ‘Who has a p-nis?’, the boys can say, ‘Yo Tengo!’ ”
Where is this obsession coming from? And more importantly, is it going to end before she hits puberty??
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