One evening, while preparing dinner, our ten-year-old daughter asked, "Mommy, what's puberty?" My wife was busy at the moment, so she suggested Peggy look it up in the dictionary and then they could discuss it.
A few minutes later, Peggy returned. Her mother asked what the dictionary said. "Puberty means," Peggy announced, "the earliest age at which a girl is able to bear children."
"What do you think of that?" my wife asked.
"I'm not sure," Peggy replied. "I've always been able to bear children. It's adults I can't bear."