That is funny....and since you asked....

I feel the easiest way to teach the "birds and the bees" (sex education) is to tell the truth from birth and be honest and open and answer the questions seriously and without giggling when they arise.

Call the organs by their correct names, penis, vagina, anus, urethra, etc. and then when they get older and it is a "silly, giggly, embarassing" thing for their peers your children will already be prepared and know the truth and you will never have to have "the talk".

I bought age appropriate anatomy books all along as my children grew up and then when they had questions after reading the books they asked me and I answered honestly. If you tell a child in simplistic terms where a baby comes from when they are really young it becomes no big deal as they get older and it is what it is ....a normal and natural and beautiful part of life. They will be happier and healthier for it. :)

Thats what I am doing with my children too. :)

Common ground!! Yay! :thumbup:

Kim, I'm sure we have lots :) Except I'm up here freezing and your in Sunny California. I'm so so so jealous ( and so are Daisy & Bear). :)

Too funny Irene!!!!!!! Thanks for the laugh today :)

We always answered our dd's questions honestly but without going overboard on the info, using the correct terms. She asked where the baby grew....a place called a vagina...that's all she wanted to know....and we didn't elobrate. When she asked point blank....that's when we supplied more information.

And to you gals with daughters...let me suggest a terrific book for them. It's "the care and keeping of you" by American Girl. It covers developing bodies, pimples, friends, etc. All the information is geared toward girls. I got it for my dd when she was in fifth grade, because I "started" by 6th and wanted to prepare her "if and when". Also told her if "it" happened at school, she should tell a woman because all of us were there at one time or another.....at the time she had a male teacher in the morning and a woman in the afternoon. She asked me if it happened could she wait until she went to the woman's class. I told her to tell Mr. P that she needed to go to the nurse. She insisted he'd want to know why. I said just tell him it's personal, that he knew about girls having periods, and wouldn't ask questions. She asked how he knew. I said he's married. Her reply....do ya think his WIFE told him. I just laughed and said hmmm, yea ;)

Any way you can find the book at Target or Amazon. She and I read it together and sometimes she'd tell me she "looked" something up in it. She keep checking that boob growth stage....LOL.

You guys have me CRACKING UP!!!!!

This happened when my son was around 3. Well, I went in to wake him up one next morning and there he was...he had pitched a tent. He looks at himself and looks at me...."MOMMA, WASSAT??? BIG PEE PEE!!!" I just about died from laughing so hard...but this was the same kid that earlier that year, I was working in the back yard. He was helping me but went into the house. After a while, I was wondering where he was so I went in and called his name...couldn't find him. Open the front door and he's running down the side walk in front of the house...butt naked with a red tub over his head!

This is going into my "things to know when you are a Mommy and kids ask questions" brain file! :) Thanks for the advice.

Hmmmm, guess he didn't want to be recognized....LOL. Reminds me...friend was in the potty training process w/ ds. We're at the beach...course he has to go, NO POTTIES, so we tell him that you just go in the water. He walks down to the edge, whips it out, and GOES. I told her I guess we needed to explain that you actually wade into the water :D Guess it is a little confusing, ya spend weeks saying "don't go in your pants"....and NOW ya want them to :eek:

DD once walked in the bathroom when I had a tampon in my hand. She asked what it was....said it's something big girls use. Week later, she's rushing to the potty...telling me she's gotta go, holds up her hand holding a tampon and says...I got one of these too, cause I'm a BIG girl NOW ;) I had to up the age to being a mommy :p

These stories are a riot!!!

My 9 year old niece found out where babies come from at school a few weeks ago. She was SO mad at her parents!!! She looked at her mother and said - "You did THAT with HIM ?!?!?!" and gave my brother the dirtiest look. Then she said, "I can't believe you did that in MY house - probably while I was sleeping!!!". She was so mad at them - she thought it was so gross! So they explained to her that everyone thinks that their parents doing it is gross. They said, "We don't like to think about Gram & Papa doing it" and she said "Yeah, especially becaue they're old!".

Too funny!!

Now that's funny :D As a child, I thought my parents did "it" three times....my brothers and me. And obviously the mother down the street liked it more than my mom...cause they had 6 kids. :eek:

ROTFLMAO!!!! OMG... I need to breath... I love her indignation... You did what, where? In MY home?? LMAO!!!