Puberty
One evening, in the midst of dinner preparation, our ten-year-old daughter Jenny asked“Mommy, what’s puberty?” My wife was rushed at the moment, so she suggested that Jenny look up the word in the dictionary, after which they could talk about it.
A few minutes later, Jenny returned. Her mother asked what the dictionary had said.“Puberty means,” announced Jenny, “the earliest age at which a girl is able to bear children.”
“What do you think of that?” my wife asked.
“I’m not sure,” Jenny replied.“I’ve always been able to bear children. It’s adults I can’t bear.”
青春期
一天晚上，在準備晚飯的時候，10歲的女兒詹妮問：“媽媽，什么是青春期？”我妻子此時正在忙得不亦樂乎，就建議詹妮到字典上去查這個詞，然后她們可以再討論。
幾分鐘后，詹妮回來了。她媽媽問字典上怎么說。“青春期的意思是，”詹妮宣布，“一個女孩忍受孩子的最早年齡。”
“你怎么想的呢？”我妻子問。
“我不知道，”詹妮回答，“我總能忍受孩子，讓我忍受不了的是大人。”
