Once a week (usually Friday nights, but we had to move it to tonight this week) my husband and I have a nice date night. Sometimes we go out and either have one of our sets of parents or a babysitter watch them, sometimes we just have a very romantic dinner at home after the kids go to bed.
Tonight, my husband and I have a date night of the latter variety planned. My husband wanted to surprise me with what dinner would be tonight, so he got the groceries by himself. While he was out today shopping for all of the elements of our dinner, I was with the kids at home and doing the laundry. Our kids were all in the living room, with the younger 2 playing and our oldest (who’s 10) watching a cooking show while he was weaving a potholder.
At one point, the presenter of the show mentioned that oysters (which were in the recipe) were aphrodisiacs. My son immediately asked me what that meant, and I told him that it’s a food that’s supposed to make you want to have sex. He said gross, then carried on watching. When my husband came home with the groceries, he called the kids over to help him put them away.
After a minute of putting things away, our oldest son yelled “ew!” My husband then laughed and asked what was wrong, and our son said “I know what oysters are for, dad” in the most disappointed tone I’ve ever heard him use to speak. He’s been shooting both of us the most withering looks you can imagine from a 10 year old all afternoon. I think he’s not enjoying the day too much.
TL;DR: I told my son what “aphrodisiac” means when it was mentioned on a show about oysters, and now he’s grossed out and correctly guessed what my husband and I had in mind after dinner.
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This is funny but also who casually tells their 10 year old that yeah this is the food we eat to have sex. It just sounds a bit too casual.
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Ha! I have a nephew his age and I feel like he would’ve responded in exactly the same way.
Love it! This is hysterical! 🤣
I feel like 10 yrs old is definitely old enough to know about proper anatomy and that sex is how babies are made and everything else, imo your response wasn’t too crazy
You could tell him something like “I know sex is ew but you should be happy that your parents love each other and want to be with each other.”
Some of these responses are so weird lol. Sex is okay to discuss y’all
Idk y you would have to lie. When I was a kid, I would hate when ppl would lie to me like that only to find out the truth for myself. He’s 10, he’s definitely old enough to know stuff like that. Also, just bc it’s an aphrodisiac does not mean that is the reason you bought it lol. Oysters are delicious. Tell the kid chocolate is also an aphrodisiac lol.
That’s the best story, he will remember this day for eternity though, I hope you give his wife oysters on their wedding day lol
Don’t remember how old I was but I similarly asked what a brothel was because on the Simpsons episode where Sideshow Bob was trying to kill Bart on a boat, the boat ran aground and Chief Wiggum and some other cops were in robes and said something like “Good thing you guys crashed next to this brothel”. I didn’t get the joke, so I asked. Well my mom just told me it’s where prostitutes lived and I pretended to act oblivious but unwilling to ask what that was because I had heard of prostitutes before and what they did. My mom is pretty conservative so I’m surprised she answered.