Uncomfortable Conversation

I took Mackenzie to a doctor's appointment this afternoon to get her ear checked out.  The good news is that the infection is gone and the eardrum seems to have reconnected properly.  The doctor couldn't see the eardrum because there is still some "stuff" in her ear hiding the ear drum.  They did a hearing test and she is doing fine with the higher pitches, but isn't hearing the lower pitches as well as she was when she took her hearing test for school.  So we are going to let it continue to heal and she will do another hearing test in the fall to see if she has regained all of her hearing.  So all-in-all the doctor's appointment was pretty good.

When we got in the car after the appointment NPR was on the radio.  I had given Mackenzie my iPhone at the doctor's office and when we got in the car she wanted it back to finish her "Where's Perry" game.  So I didn't think that she was paying attention to the radio.  I wasn't really paying attention to it either, as I was thinking about something else, but I did notice that they were talking about Kermit Gosnell being found guilty of murder.  From the backseat I hear "Mom, I just heard them talking about killing babies."  Of course I immediately turned the radio off and I explained that yes, they were talking about a man that was going to jail for killing babies.  In my head I am trying to figure out how to talk about murder with my 6 year old, or how to talk about abortion with my 6 year old and wondering which I would prefer to have to talk about with my 6 year old.  Luckily she didn't want to talk to much about it.  The word abortion was mentioned and I tried to explain it as shortly as possible and without much to do.  It seemed to work as she went back to playing "Where's Perry".  However, knowing Mackenzie, this is not the end of the discussion and she is still thinking about it.