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“Emma, would you please put on some clothing.”

This phrase is uttered by me usually three or four times a day.  It doesn’t come as much of a surprise to me when the 7 year old feels the need to come down the steps before her shower, completely in the buff, to tell me about something that happened in school 6 hours prior, although why I bought her a bathrobe puzzles me.

I know why she is standing on the bottom step with her hands on her naked hips in semi-model pose.  My kids are not shy about their bodies.  For the first fifteen minutes before a shower, one look up my steps will garner you candid access to a burlesque show headlined by a 10 and 7 year old who are laughing, shaking their rear ends, jumping off of my bed, and commenting to each other how good they look in the nude.