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[While the rest of the family took our traditional trek to Salt Lake to attend the special Music and the Spoken Word with the Christmas mini-concert last Sunday, Caleb and I had a few hours of rare one-on-one time. This began with a special breakfast complete with a few segments of a fresh clementine. He preceded to remove the orange segments from his plate and push them with his index finger as far away from his plate as possible. A few minutes later as I ate some of them myself he brought up his concerns.]

Caleb (5): Mom, what are those?

Mom: Clementines.

Caleb: Why are you eating them?

Mom: They're yummy.

Caleb: I don't like them.

Mom: Why?

Caleb: Because they have poop in them.

Mom: What?

Caleb: Yup, they have poop in them and then they take it out and it goes down the toilet.

Mom: Caleb, clementines don't have poop in them. It's fruit that grows on trees, like apples and cherries.

Caleb: Yea, trees that grow from poop seeds.

Alison Moore Smith is a 61-year-old entrepreneur who graduated from BYU in 1987. She has been (very happily) married to Samuel M. Smith for 40 years. They are parents of six incredible children and grandparents to two astounding grandsons. She is the author of The 7 Success Habits of Homeschoolers.