I had to explain to my 9 year son where babies come from. So I took him to a cafe after school and bought him a coke and bit of cake for a casual chat. First I asked him what his thoughts where and his theories because some of the older kids (11 year olds) had been talking about sex and he said that you lay together naked and in bed and kiss like for a minute then thats it. I couldn't help but say "seriously? Only a minute? " and my poor son said "oh ok mum, maybe 6 hours. " I had to struggle not to laugh but said "we can only hope!"
But anyway, we talked about our bits and how boys are different and girls are different. That boys have testis that make sperm and girls have ovaries that make eggs. We talked about how one sperm travels up from the vagina into the uterus and into the fallopian tubes to find an egg and only one out of millions of sperm would be lucky enough to fertilize the egg.
I then showed a you tube video which was pretty good and simple to understand. It is called "Genesis" for anyone who has to suffer through this.
So Mr 9 was pretty squared away and then asked how the sperm gets inside the mother. I reminded him about sex and he was a bit confused because he then asked if the mummy drinks it or does the daddy give her an injection etc. I then explained that sex is when the a man puts his penis into the lady's vagina. That the sperm made in the testis travels through the penis and out into the mother through her vagina.
My 9 year old was HORRIFIED. His words where "O M G, ypu have to put your penis in a girls ba - gina to have a baby???! THATS DISGUSTING! !! You did THAT with Dad???! That is disgusting! !!" It was pretty funny and by then the man across from us was having a giggle.
We decided to leave and go to grandmas. First thing he says to his grand parents and aunt was...
"You have to put your penis in a bagina to make a baby and that's called sex."
Then. ..
"Mummy said that I have to be like 30 and have a good job and own my house and be with the mummy always before I make a baby."
And then....
"I POPPED MY MUMS BAGINA!!!!" At which point with a horrified grossed look ran out of the room and disappeared.
Everyone looked at each other and burst out laughing. Thank god I only have to do that ONCE. OMG. Still makes me laugh.
Tell me I am not the only one to have moments like this?
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I put my mum through her paces from about 3. So many people were always having babies and I was very curious.
A kid at my school after receiving the talk wrote an essay on it. His class teacher was so impressed it was shared around the staff room :)
My eldest son had sex ed at school when he was 10, he came home absolutely disgusted! He wouldn't even talk about it he was so grossed out by it! Then I told my second son he will be having the talk in school next year as well and he was horrified too! ??. I think it's the age!