Posted by Dinah on May 1, 2005, at 10:30:42
In reply to Re: Time for the big talk I think » Dinah, posted by Susan47 on April 30, 2005, at 21:27:51
I like the idea of a video too.
I thought letting him have a book and giving him time to take in what it says before having to discuss it might be least threatening.
We've been quite remiss I fear. Other than the stuff that affects kids his age, like letting him know that masturbation is perfectly fine and healthy, but is done in private; or talking about how babies grow in mothers tummies and that there are a few ways to come out, and this was the way he came out (c-section), we haven't really discussed it. He prefers cartoons, and we don't let him watch anything above PG (Star Wars will be his first PG-13), so he doesn't come into much contact with it.
He does know about girls and boys, because in the litigation climate of our times the girls and boys bathrooms always had open doors at his preschool. He's so familiar with that, I guess, that he never bothered to comment on it.
Either the school library or a friend had a book about the birds and bees that he mentioned once with slightly disguised interest. We encouraged him to check it out, but if he did he didn't bring it home or ask us anything about it. That was when I decided it might be time to expose him to the basic facts and let him ask questions.
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