Yesterday I had to pick up my 6 year old nephew from school since his mom just got a new job at a local hospital as a nurse. She had already talked with him beforehand and let him know to wait for me. Once it was time to pick him up me and my brother headed to the school. There were a lot of kids waiting in front of the school for their parents to pick them up. After a bit of searching I finally found him playing with a group of friends in the back. I called him over to us and we started walking back towards my car.
My brother sat in the passenger and my nephew in the back seat. As we were driving away, I looked in the rear view mirror and I saw him slouching as though he was trying to hide from someone. At first I thought that a girl he liked was walking by, so I asked him "Why are you hiding?" and he said "Because I'm embarrassed." I couldn't figure out what he was embarrassed about so I asked "What are you embarrassed about?" and he said "I'm embarrassed because people are going to think that I have 2 dads.".
I wasn't expecting that answer at all. I told him that having 2 dads is nothing to be embarrassed about and that lots of kids all over the world have 2 dads or moms. I decided to just leave it at that and let his mom decide how much she wanted to explain to him. Afterward we went to Dairy Queen to get some ice-cream and I couldn't help but laugh when I thought about again.
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