Little boys and their penises
What is the fascination that boys and men have with their penis. My son discovered his at about 4 months and the pediatrician warned me that it would be a life long love affair. At first, he would simply attack his penis when his pamper/pull up was being changed or he was bathing. I decided not to be an uptight mother and allow him his penis playing time. I read in a number of the Parenting magazines other mothers who had taken the similar tack that I had. I didn't want him thinking that his penis was somethign that was bad or dirty. It was a part of who he was and he needed to love and embrace it, but boy - it was a love affair bordering on obsession.
Then he turned two and now he became Al Bundy. His greatest joy is to stick his hand down his shorts and pullups and have a penis playing heyday. When he's drinking his milk, I swear it's a security blanket. Then one day I came out of the room and there he was standing in front of the television, pants around his ankles playing with his penis. My first reaction was shock and then I died laughing. Because we talk to him so much about not doing this, he knew he was in trouble and immediately began telling me that he needed to pee in the potty. I was amazed how already at two, he'd begun to figure out that life was all about covering your ass. Since potty readiness was soemthing that we expected of him, he had turned his little masturbatory fest into something that we would want to reward him for. Boy, where has my little baby gone, because this is some serious mature thought process.
The interesting thing also is that he only does this in places where he's comfortable. He seems to realize that school is not a place where this is acceptable, but at home, anything goes. We truly are sexual beings. I didn't actually realize until I became a parent that the same pleasure that an adult male gets from penile stimulation is the same pleasure that my son is getting althout on a much lesser scale. There are some things that you have to teach and some things that are just instictual. Ain't life grat.
Then he turned two and now he became Al Bundy. His greatest joy is to stick his hand down his shorts and pullups and have a penis playing heyday. When he's drinking his milk, I swear it's a security blanket. Then one day I came out of the room and there he was standing in front of the television, pants around his ankles playing with his penis. My first reaction was shock and then I died laughing. Because we talk to him so much about not doing this, he knew he was in trouble and immediately began telling me that he needed to pee in the potty. I was amazed how already at two, he'd begun to figure out that life was all about covering your ass. Since potty readiness was soemthing that we expected of him, he had turned his little masturbatory fest into something that we would want to reward him for. Boy, where has my little baby gone, because this is some serious mature thought process.
The interesting thing also is that he only does this in places where he's comfortable. He seems to realize that school is not a place where this is acceptable, but at home, anything goes. We truly are sexual beings. I didn't actually realize until I became a parent that the same pleasure that an adult male gets from penile stimulation is the same pleasure that my son is getting althout on a much lesser scale. There are some things that you have to teach and some things that are just instictual. Ain't life grat.
posted by SueMorrWill @ 8:03 AM
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