How do you explain to your kids about the birds and the bees?

Question

How to explain to your children on where do babies come from?

Answer 1

Be honest with them. Don't get to graphic....but honesty is always the best policy....I would tell them something like....Mommy and Daddy love each other very much and God thought we needed to have another baby and so there is a baby growing in Mommy's tummy and in a few months to come, Mommy will go to the hospital and have the baby. If your kids ask you how the baby got to be in Mommy's tummy, tell them God put the baby there.....If they ask how, tell them that God can do all things....I told my 2 year old about her going to have a baby sister or brother and the baby was in my tummy, she asked all the questions ( I didn't think were possible for someone her age) I told him that God put the baby there and then she asked if God was going to let the baby see her...I told him Yes. When I had her brother, she came up to the hospital...looked at my tummy and said, "Where's this baby? Cuz, it sure isn't in your tummy anymore mommy, cuz you aren't fat anymore. About that time The nurse brought her brother in and she looked at the nurse and said, Let Me see the baby, he's got to be big like me, cause God took a long time to help Mommy have hir, at least two years." Kids are generally happy with short answers and they tend to ask them over and over but just keep to what you tell them the first time and make them part of helping get ready for the new baby and pretty soon it won't matter to them how or why the baby is going to be here, it just matters When is the baby going to be here." I hope this helps

Answer 2

Provide the info as they ask it, being careful to be truthful but not necessarily too graphic. Think age appropriate (don't explain menstruation and birth control to a 5 year old). Do NOT trust the school system to do it. Abstinence education is the reason why we have so many young people getting knocked up and grown ups who actually think there is a vaccine for HIV! As awkward as you may find it, if they are well educated on it and feel it's something they can come to you for advice on, you know they'll be safe.

Edit: don't listen to Queen B, either. If they grow up thinking "God puts a baby in mommy's tummy because he felt it was time for another one" they won't make the connection between sex and pregnancy. Introducing eligion to your children is fine, but keep it seperate from sex education. Factual information ONLY.

Answer 3

I was always open about any questions, and we read children's books about animals, so they were naturally curious about nature and asked questions whenever they occurred to them. My older child asked a lot of detailed questions when he was three. I thought that was too early but I answered his questions and it was no big deal like he always knew. No surprise, I suppose, that in high school he made A's in AP Biology! My younger child saw a TV nature show about possums, and asked if people made babies the same way. I told him not in trees :-) but otherwise, yes. If you are open early, you never have to have a big talk and I think it helps with communication about other things.

P.S. Make sure you are answering the questions they ask and not providing more info than they actually want to know. However, if you think they are old enough and they haven't asked, provide opportunities (visit the zoo in the spring, after a trip to the mall mention the pregnant woman, watch animal shows) and start the conversation.

Answer 4

Hi, Well how old are they. You tell them the truth. You need to tell them only what they need to know at there age. But the truth is the best way. That way they now the right way. Not some made up story. One day when they get older and they are talking to there friends and some thing come up about sex they will know. It will be the right thing to say because you told them the truth.

Answer 5

It depends on how old they are and what questions they ask. Never a good idea to tell them about some cabbage patch theory or the stork.

Never forgave my Mom for the stupid Cabbage Patch one and I would check our garden every day when I was around 3 for my new brother or sister!

Children under 3 usually ask that question, get an answer they find reasonable (whether it be the truth or the stork) and move on.

5-9 year olds will be much more inquisitive. As they will observe a growing belly, better to tell them it was a act of love between your father and me and it resulted in this baby which is inside Mommy for around 9 mos.

It depends on the maturity of the child after 9 and their grasp on things how much you want to tell them. As I had heard horrid stories in our local paper about some habits of local kids, had to pony up to the being sexually responsible speach just in case you have heard or thought about it to my then 11 year old, who, thankfully, was still grossed out.

Answer 6

I'm 12, and my dad taught me about sex when I was about 10.
He basically just looked it up on the web and explained everything.
Some of my friends that are girls, weren't eduacated about "that sort of thing" and freaked out when they get their period screaming "What does that have to do with a stork?!".
Remember to also tell your children about the dangers...
They're are alot of kids out there as young as me that have sex because they don't know the risks.
Below is a site that should help ^.^

Answer 7

In actuality, it might not even be necessary to explain to your kids about the process of human sexual reproduction. In my own experience, I didn't learn much about sex from my parents; whatever I had learned about sex was from books, TV, Internet, or from what my classmates had said. By the time your kids get into 9th, 10th, or 11th grade, they'll probably have to take a health course which will explain to them the whole process about how babies are born.

Answer 8

it depends on the age of the child. You can say babies come from a mommys belly if they are small, but if they are pre teen age I recommend contacting a local hospital that devivers babies. Most of them have programs to teach kids about there bodies, puberty, abstinance and safe sex. Some have seperate classes for boys and girls.

My mom took me to one when I was 9 or 10, I learned from a Nurse, and didnt have to embarass myself or my parents by having "the talk"
Hope this helps!

Answer 9

Let them watch animal planet then explain to them that this is how animals and people alike reproduce. The daddy has the seed and the mommy has the egg, daddy plants the seed in mommy and baby grows in mommies tummy......you can tell children this way at a very early age...............good luck!

Answer 10

The best way would be to just simply tell them. It doesn't do any good to delay or change words around and stuff because if you don't teach them they might come to learn the distorted views on the subject by their friends, which can variate extremely from what is true.