She doesn't know better

A friend brought over a celebrity magazine. She knows I am always WAY behind on the celebrity gossip and like to read up on it occasionally. So I had this magazine laying out. On Friday the kids and I were hanging out in the living room, and Kaitlyn picked up the magazine and started flipping through it. She brought it over and showed me a underwear model. "Mommy, do you see her swim suit? It's so pretty. You need to buy me one!" Many things flipped through my mind, (EXCUSE me!! Since when do you tell me what I NEED to buy you?? was one of them!) Instead I told her that we don't wear clothes like that (since she was assuming it was a swim suite, I didn't correct her, we'll leave that for another day!) because it makes Jesus sad. He doesn't want us to show off our body's like that. So then of coarse the well why is she wearing it? I explained that it was an ad meant to sell the clothes and that she didn't know better, but we do and we talked more about what is appropriate and what's not. I was pretty impressed with how much she understood and was happy with how the conversation went. I am always surprised by how much she notices around her. Well anyway a little while after our conversation she went back to the magazine and started flipping through it again. She pointed to all (there were a lot! It was a gossip mag!) the girls that weren't dressed and said, she doesn't know better, she doesn't know better, turn the page, she doesn't know better... through out the whole magazine. She makes me smile. I just am glad it's winter and it's cold here, or I'd probably be explaining to A LOT of women why my daughter told them they don't know better! I am glad to see the lesson stuck, and at least for now she doesn't want to parade around town in a "tinny tiny yellow poka dotted bikini" -love you mom! (that song is a funny family joke)