A second grader came home from school and said to her mother, \u201cMom, guess what? \u201cWe learned how to make babies today.\u201d<\/p>\n
The mother, more than a little surprised, tried to keep her cool.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s interesting,\u201d she said. \u201cHow do you make babies?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s simple,\u201d replied the girl. \u201cYou just change \u2018y\u2019 to \u2018i\u2019 and add \u2018es\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
The girl was talking about spelling rules\u2014how to make words plural (like \u201cbaby\u201d to \u201cbabies\u201d) by changing \u201cy\u201d to \u201ci\u201d and adding \u201ces.\u201d<\/p>\n
The mother let out a sigh of relief and smiled, realizing her daughter had misunderstood. She gently ruffled her hair and said, \u201cWell, I\u2019m glad you learned about spelling today, but just to clarify\u2026 there\u2019s actually a bit more to making babies than just changing a letter.\u201d<\/p>\n
The girl looked up at her, wide-eyed. \u201cReally?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOh yes,\u201d her mother replied with a chuckle. \u201cBut don\u2019t worry, you\u2019ll learn about that much later\u2014when you\u2019re much older.\u201d<\/p>\n
The little girl nodded solemnly, thinking for a moment before asking, \u201cSo, if I change \u2018dog\u2019 to \u2018dogs,\u2019 is that how puppies are made?\u201d<\/p>\n
The mother laughed again, shaking her head. \u201cSomething like that, sweetie. Something like that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A second grader came home from school and said to her mother, \u201cMom, guess what? \u201cWe learned how to make babies today.\u201d The mother, more than a little surprised, tried to keep her cool. \u201cThat\u2019s interesting,\u201d she said. \u201cHow do you make babies?\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s simple,\u201d replied the girl. \u201cYou just change \u2018y\u2019 to \u2018i\u2019 and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21537,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21536\/revisions\/21537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}