Tough Question

Yesterday I was out with my 4-year-old client. We spent an hour in the park before going to get a sno-cone and heading back. I was taking him to his baby-sitter's out in the country, and on the way we passed a graveyard. He told me that his dad had told him that that's where dead people were. He then asked me how the dead people get there. He was sitting in the backseat behind me and I looked up in the rearview mirror and told him that when people die, their friends carry them to the graveyard to bury them. He looked at me and seemed to understand. He paused for a moment, then looked back up at me and asked,

"Do they take their love with them?"

I didn't really know what to say. I asked him to repeat the question in case I heard wrong, but he repeated the exact same question. What would you have answered?

Gooshy

Gooshy

This past Thursday I was seeing one of my younger male clients (around 6 years old). His mother was showing me around the house before she took off, and she was showing me where the bathroom was, when my client ran up to her and whispered,

"What happens if it's a gooshy one?"

I let out a scream inside my mind.

His mother replied, "Just ask Mr. Casey to help you."

More mind-screaming.

She then told me that if it's a "gooshy one" that there are special wipes for him to use, and that I'll have to throw them in the wastebasket because they don't flush down the toilet.

And more mind-screaming.

Thankfully he didn't need my help for no nasty gooshy bowel movements were passed in the house that day. Amen.