My babysitting charge explained to me after her little brother was in bed asleep. She told me that she had woken one night hearing her parents in their living room and peeked to see her mother doing what she had been doing to her brother in the bath, to her father. And after heard her mother tease her father about sleeping like a baby. And that after that she began to spy on her parents when she could get away with it. And unlike my parents, hers had explained and had the old school birds and bees talk with her early on. That she did not understand everything she had seen but that she had tried some of it with her little brother. As if no big deal she told me she could teach me, that all I had to do was take off my clothes. I was scared and ashamed and told her that ny parents had told me never to let anyone see or touch me down there. She said ok and the topic was dropped. But it came up again on the next babysitting night. She told me that if I wanted I could watch them bathe again. And naive morbid curiousity and fascination convinced me to do so and to let my babysitting charge teach me things ny parents had not. To this day over 30 years later I wonder if she is ok and wish I could tell her how sorry I am and hope she was not affected by it.
