Kennyster

Friday, April 07, 2006

Chapter 14: Reproduction in Animals

For some strange reason, my primary 5 tuition girl is very open and curious about male and female reproductive parts. I have no idea why the MOE shifted the Reproduction in Animals chapter from Sec2 to Primary5, but whatever the reason is, I think it is too early to teach them about such stuff.

I'm not sure about the rest of the pri5 kids, but my tuition girl is obsessed with this chapter. For the first time ever, she does readings and voluntarily pose me questions from the textbook. For instance, once, she pointed to a picture of a male toad on top of a female toad and asked me what they were doing.

"They are humping each other", I had wanted to say, but didn't.

"They are fusing their reproductive parts together to combine the male sperm with the female egg to produce offsprings." I replied, marvelling at my ability to get out of a sticky (pun, hur hur) situation.

"That's it?", she said, raising her eyebrow quizzically. "I mean how do they do it exactly?"

"You don't have to know how they do it exactly. Just know that they can do it can already."

Now, one and a half month later, it seems that she has passed on her rich knowledge to her younger sisters. I was having tuition with her last week when the youngest sister, who's in Primary 2, was jumping around in the same room. Somehow, my tuition kid went to show her something from her encyclopedia and they started giggling.

Out of the blue, the youngest sister exclaimed pretty loudly," Aiyah, daddy also have pen-nis what!"

My jaws dropped till dislocation point.

Oh dear. Their mum is going to lay the smack-down on me when she finds out about this. Worse still, what will their father do to me? From what I had gathered, their dad is a pretty big-shot lawyer, whom I assume probably loves the death penalty.

What will he demand for such blatant moral corruption of his young, innocent and dearest daughters?

"Castration, your honour, is the only solution."

Kennyster @ 11:55 PM