The Temple Conversation

I have been thinking a lot about how to teach Little Princess Modesty and Purity. It seems that she is quite comfortable with her body and really doesn't always feel the need to keep it hidden from others view. It probably doesn't help that she and her older brother share a room and up until about 6 months ago still took showers together or at least one was getting in while the other was coming out.

Since she is getting older I decided that I should probably be doing something about this so I have tried to instill a new rule, and that is that they can't both be in the same room while they are dressing, one can dress in their room and the other in mine.

The other day I was trying to explain this to her and she just wasn't getting it, or maybe I wasn't explaining it well enough. Here is our conversation:

Me: You need to dress in the other room not the one your brother is currently in?

Little Princess: Why not?

Me: Well, because you are getting older and it isn't appropriate for you to be dressing in the same room, besides we need to learn to be modest.

Little Princess: Why?

(As you can tell this wasn't going very well and I really wasn't doing well in explaining anything either, but I kept trying).

Me: Well, haven't you heard that God says our Bodies are His temple and so we need to take care of them and protect them and not show them off to everybody.

Little Princess: Oh! ( It seemed to make sense to her and she walked away).

I thought I was in the clear until I heard.......

Little Princess: Don't look at my temple!!

Little Knight: What??

Little Princess: You are not suppose to look at my temple!!!

Little Knight: What are you talking about?  Mom!!!!!

Apparently when I sent her to the other room to change she failed to complete the process and instead walked back to their shared room with her pajama pants not all the way up. Little Knight was walking out of the room where he had been dressing and they ended up meeting in the door way. What ensued was her screaming about HER TEMPLE and my poor son being compeletly confused by her new desire to hide her TEMPLE!!

If anybody has a successful way of approaching this issue I would love to hear it.