Talking with my kids can be so very entertaining. Have I said that before? It seems that the funniest conversations occur mostly in the car (sometimes at the dinner table). I guess it's because we spend a lot of time driving the kids hither and yon.

Here are snippets of some recent car talks.

Allegory & Virginity

All five of us are in the car on the way to one of Jack's Orff concerts when Rachel starts telling a funny story about her fashion teacher (whom she loves, by the way) - Mrs. Fashion shared with them an allegory (or parable - a symbolic narrative) before they left on spring break. This particular parable was intended to communicate to the girls (there are no boys in her class) that they should value their virginity and not to give it away to just anyone. {Something about a girl handing out flowers to anyone and everyone - I can't quite recall the whole thing.}

When she finished telling us the "story", I asked her, "She's talking about virginity, right?"

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