Monitoring hormones

As I was lying in bed, feeling all cold-y and sorry for myself, anklebiter #1 cheers me up no end with her fantastic imagination and philosophizing.

My nose was making that funny whistling sound that noses make when you have a heavy cold.

“Do you know what, mama?” she says. “When my nose makes a funny beeping sound, then it’s my nose’s way of telling me that it’s time for the snot to come out!”

Aha – so that’s why!

Then, she carried on philosophizing. About hormones. As all parents of 6-7-year-olds know, kids of this age are like mini-teenagers with all the accompanying mood swings, tantrums and door slamming. So, nothing could have been more appropriate.

Anyway, the conversation goes something like this:

“Do you know that we’ve got little computers inside our bodies, mama?”

“Have we?”

“Yes. And little people sit in front of these computers and keep a look-out … for hormones! When they see a bad hormone, then they go out and bash it.”

Valuable information.

The only question is: How on earth do you switch those hormone-bashing machines on?