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Why is it so difficult to explain how babies are made
Everyone seems to regard this as a tough thing to explain to one's children. As something that requires special, delicate approach, and should be explained only when the child is "ready", seeing silence and/or lying as preferable to frank answer.
This one clearly remembers how she learned it. One day she was simply handed an anatomy textbook (in hindsight, this one understands that it probably was deliberate, as this one's parents are usually perfectly content with letting her to pick the books to read herself, offering occasional suggestion but never a demand) to read. The book was intended for children of early school age yet quite comprehensive, with ocassional jokes and analogies for simplification but no kid speak or factual errors. The chapter about reproduction system was...just like every other chapter. Here's the eyes and that's what they do and how they do it, here's a heart and that's what it does and how it works, here's vagina, that's what it does and how it works, here's penis, that's what it does and how it's works, here's uterus, that's what it does and how it's works, here's brain, that's what it does and how it works, here's stomach, that's what it does and how it works...Well, you get the picture.
This one fails to see hhow it could be considered an inappropriate information for a child. And it did not lead to any undue interest to sex - quite the contrary, this one read with mild interest, noted to herself "So that's it" and moved to the topics that interested her more, such as the workings of eyes or neural system. It is only after prolonged contact with other kids she started to see sex as a topic of "Forbidden, but that's makes it so coooool" discussion. Rude, clueless and obscene discussion, this one must add.
Seriously, making reproduction a great mystery only adds trouble.
This one clearly remembers how she learned it. One day she was simply handed an anatomy textbook (in hindsight, this one understands that it probably was deliberate, as this one's parents are usually perfectly content with letting her to pick the books to read herself, offering occasional suggestion but never a demand) to read. The book was intended for children of early school age yet quite comprehensive, with ocassional jokes and analogies for simplification but no kid speak or factual errors. The chapter about reproduction system was...just like every other chapter. Here's the eyes and that's what they do and how they do it, here's a heart and that's what it does and how it works, here's vagina, that's what it does and how it works, here's penis, that's what it does and how it's works, here's uterus, that's what it does and how it's works, here's brain, that's what it does and how it works, here's stomach, that's what it does and how it works...Well, you get the picture.
This one fails to see hhow it could be considered an inappropriate information for a child. And it did not lead to any undue interest to sex - quite the contrary, this one read with mild interest, noted to herself "So that's it" and moved to the topics that interested her more, such as the workings of eyes or neural system. It is only after prolonged contact with other kids she started to see sex as a topic of "Forbidden, but that's makes it so coooool" discussion. Rude, clueless and obscene discussion, this one must add.
Seriously, making reproduction a great mystery only adds trouble.
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My parents' philosophy was if I was old enough to ask, I was old enough for an answer.
Problem avoided.
However, she does lives in the same world with the children other people have, right?
Sex.
What is sex?
When a man puts a penis into a woman's vagina.
...can I do sex with you daddy?
What? No.
Please?
No, we can't have sex.
Why not
Because you are my daughter, and not my son.
Okay....
-pets head- Awww, don't worry. Give it a couple of years and I might change my mind.
-smile-
Binky: Do you know what fucking is?
Bongo: Yes.
Binky: Well, that's how babies are made.
I pray my parents didn't make up that tale and that it really is a part of my childhood I forgot, because it is hilarious
I do remember the lego models and being able to read before even kindergarten, at the very least
No.
But if people prefer to see this one as hanar, so be it.
For instance. I remember something to the effect of reading about reproduction in chickens when I was in kindergarten. Which caused a good deal of awkwardness when my school was dyeing Easter eggs that year, one of them broke, and I pointed at a blood spot on the yolk and said "LOOK! A SPERM!"
lot of misconceptions about sex were due to it being handled immaturely.
I've been informed that treating sex like a normal thing that everyone does would result in the fall of Western civilization.
Jellyfish-like creature from Mass Effect. Some people think that this one's speech pattern is similar. Which is not techhnically true (for example, hanar would not refer to themselves as "she"), but this one does not mind.
I've been informed that treating sex like a normal thing that everyone does would result in the fall of Western civilization.
How?
let it fall. At this point I just want ot watch the world burn.
Might this one ask why?
Mostly it's just that sex is icky to them.
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Baby