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Conversations with Carter

The birds and the tampons

Carter holds up a tampon. “What’s this, mommy?”

I am so not ready for this conversation. He freaks out at the sight of blood these days, I’m not going to tell him I make some every month. I wing it:

“Umm, it’s something for women to use to wipe.”

Carter gives me an interrogatory stare, then produces the package insert, pointing to the diagram.

“So you wipe on the inside?”