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Originally Posted by Patricia
So that evening I told her where babies came from. She just looked at me and said, 'Don't be silly.'
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That reminds me of when my son was 9yo. I'm another one who thinks that kids should know proper terms and how things work. He understood about the sperm and egg creating the baby but he asked me, "How does the sperm get to the egg?" I replied very clinically, "The man inserts his penis into the women's vagina." My poor son had the most horrified expression on his face and said, "I'm NEVER doing that!" I told him to come back in 10 years and tell me the same thing after I picked myself off the floor laughing.
Now he's 14 and he and his friends are fairly comfortable asking me sensitive questions. The latest was that they wanted to know what a douchebag is. Since I hear them calling their peers that I felt it was an excellent idea to actually understand what the term means.