Do you have children and if yes when did you teach them about the birds and the bees?

As soon as she asked, noticed, questioned, or commented. The first question was at age 2. I remember she teased her uptight father by saying, “I know the difference between boys and girls – boys have pants.’ We had a sit down with a book about sex and babies when she was five. We’d talked about before that, only answering questions and all. And every once in a while we have a sit down with a new book – just for a refresher!

I got my talk in like…6th grade, but I was quite sheltered.

when I was five, my mom sat with me and went through a book about “where babies come from” because one of my little female friends was trying to teach me about “humping”. Mai Ling would take all us boys behind the dumpster and say “lay down on me, bounce up and down, and say uh uh uh”. When I told mom about humping, she figured she better lay down the facts, including that making love was setting that was something that only married adults do. My big dilemma was in not being taught about being gay.

Wow isn’t that the truth deepseas72!!! When I talk to my daughter, who is 8 now, I try to casually add that, “You fall in love with who you fall in love with.” and sometimes it’s a girl and sometimes it’s be a boy. I tell that sometimes people have two mothers, two fathers, but I have to tell the truth – I emphasize the two part, and not single parenthood. Love is love, and we are lucky to find it at all. But being alone and raising a child is just too difficult.

I can understand why you don’t emphasize single parenthood, but if you say you tell the truth then you should explain that too. I’m not telling you what to say to your child, but it is a fact of life. I am a single parent myself, and my daughter’s life is full of people who love her. So we can agree on that. It’s about love, and that’s what I’ll explain when it comes to that time. I think shielding our children from certain things because it makes us as parents uncomfortable is doing a disservice to them. Kids are smart, and they deserve the truth. This world is full enough of lies and deceit. They don’t need more of it from their parents.

Okay – here’s another one on the topic…my daughter came home from school and asked me what ORAL SEX was! Turns out the fifth graders have been having a little discussion in the after school program….. well, at 8 my kid CERTAINLY knows a whole lot more than I did at her age…. and I DID explain it, at what I hope was an age appropriate way, if that was at all possible….although someone else said I shouldn’t have…and that I should have said, “That is something between adults that you don’t need to know about…” Uuummm, hhhhhmmmmmm.

I had soft core porn on the French channel at night.