The Birds and the Bees

[smartmummy]

krazy:

I taught my girl about the birds and the bees when she was 5 years old.


In the past, we would take our baths together and I would use the opportunity to talk about the parts of our body. It helped.

Books help too. I highly recommend Babette Cole's Mommy laid an egg\". the pictures are drawn in such a manner that you or your children will not be embarrassed when talking about the subject.

:thankyou:

[ImMeeMee]

Any good books to recommend to 8 year old girls to understand about birds and the bees?


TIA

[Sun_2010]

ImMeeMee:

Any good books to recommend to 8 year old girls to understand about birds and the bees?


TIA

I found this book very useful for DD
http://www.amazon.com/Its-So-Amazing-Families-Library/dp/0763613215/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1343031184&sr=1-5&keywords=Puberty
Its available in the Nlb .

the author anticipates our shyness/discomfort and handles it with some humour , at the same time keeping the facts right and non-judgemental.

[ImMeeMee]

Sun_2010:

ImMeeMee:

Any good books to recommend to 8 year old girls to understand about birds and the bees?


TIA

I found this book very useful for DD
http://www.amazon.com/Its-So-Amazing-Families-Library/dp/0763613215/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1343031184&sr=1-5&keywords=Puberty
Its available in the Nlb .

the author anticipates our shyness/discomfort and handles it with some humour , at the same time keeping the facts right and non-judgemental.

thanks will check it out.

[Apricot]

I chanced upon this good article in Reader's Digest. Though titled `Talking Sex with Teens', I think the tactic employed could be use for younger/older kids and for other purposes.



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[LOLMum]

Dd said I did a good job in talking about sex with her...


I would like to be the one to talk to ds too....

[Nihauma]

this happened recently.

DS: what is sex?
me: :yikes: how do u know this?
ds: my friend talked about it. he said it is a gross thing. so what is it?
me: i will tell u when u r in P6. (he is 8 years old)

weeks later

dS: i asked father what is sex. he told me but i dont understand what he means.
me: :yikes: what did he say?
ds : i dont know...something about kissing and other stuff...
me: :slapshead:
ds: is that why u didnt tell me? cause i wont understand anyway?
me: yes yes

after that i asked dh what he told ds. he said he told him word for word \"its a procreation process. When 2 person in love, express their love physically\"

no wonder he doesnt understand.

anyway 8 yrs old need to explain in detail about sex? i am thinking wait till he reaches puberty.

so when did your children asked u and what was ur answer?

[tankee]

DS asked about it when he was 8


I spoke to him factually and scientifically, then I shown him the following video. And told him that he is very special, being 1 out of the 300 million, and contains both mummy's & daddy's gene.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5OvgQW6FG4][/youtube]

[sundaymorning]

Apricot:

I chanced upon this good article in Reader's Digest. Though titled `Talking Sex with Teens', I think the tactic employed could be use for younger/older kids and for other purposes.



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Hi Apricot
Thanks for sharing !!
yeah probably will try that when its time to explain .

[Sun_2010]

tankee:

DS asked about it when he was 8


I spoke to him factually and scientifically, then I shown him the following video. And told him that he is very special, being 1 out of the 300 million, and contains both mummy's & daddy's gene.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5OvgQW6FG4][/youtube]

That was very informative for my DS. He watched it a few times.
And he declared that he was the \"winner sperm\" :faint:

There is another Ted talk we saw Conception to birth -- visualized , its sort of the next part . The visualisation part starts at 2:00 min

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKyljukBE70][/youtube]